True Love?

Hollywood makes a lot of fiction, and one that they do the most would probably be romance. While seemingly harmless, the way the world views romance, to a certain extent is shaped from what we see on the big screen or even just the little screen. How we view romance to a certain extent is shaped because of what we see. The problem with this, is that our view of romance is shaped by the lens of fiction and not truth.

Expecting romance to be portrayed or taught accurately by Hollywood or other fictional sources, would be like expecting pornography to teach sex ed accurately to people. Both are based on fiction and are created by what people have dreamed up in their spare time to give to an audience.

While it might seem credulous that someone would actually believe that romance is actually like how it is portrayed in fictional sources, it all really depends on two things: How young was a person when they first saw romance being shown a certain way, and how often. When people are young they are malleable, and that is when facts or what they see stay like cement. And how often they see something, will shape their mind, because a lie, if repeated often enough and long enough, can become the truth in a mind.

Although it might seem harmless or surly unreasonable that someone could believe anything they hear or see, romance don't really affect the brain, it affects the heart, and though the brain might be smart, the heart isn't like that; It feels. So subconsciously you may believe something that might not be so. 
 
Granting that it might seem like making a mountain out of a mole, expecting or going into any relationship that is built on a lie, is already the road to disaster. And if not that, living through life with a lie, is just as bad. Believing that everything will work out, or that everything will be alright as long as you find romance isn't something that is going to happen.

While it might seem not such a big deal, being lied to about romance, or just relationships, it would be like buying a toaster to do your washing, or a trash can to be a lifeguard. The problem is that relationships aren't like toasters, and people can get hurt. So if you keep on looking for a fantasy that doesn't exist, you are only going to end up looking for someone but no one, because they only exist in fiction;People aren’t perfect, and Hollywood is. So people won’t work.

Nevertheless, the issue isn't so much that Hollywood or enjoying any fiction about romance is going to harm you, but rather to a certain degree it can affect your views. Many things do, but if you are looking for romance to make things right in your life, it won't. And to the bigger or lesser degree that you believe what fiction has told you about romance, it will actually affect your real romance.

Romance is a great thing, but at the end of the day, it has it's limitations, and you should be aware of them, because otherwise you will be disappointed that you aren't getting  what you felt you ordered. The best way to describe it is like this, you want to go fishing, but your idea of fishing is spear fishing. While similar they are different, there is nothing wrong with the two, but you are just expecting something that simply isn't there and if you keep trying to do fishing like spear fishing, it's not going cut it, because they are two different things. So in the same manner, romance and fiction romance can be like that.