mulling things over..

i used to regard myself as one hopeless romantic, yet i never got to sit back and dig deeper on what really is my understanding of the word romantic.


romantic, defined by lexicon webster dictionary as “of, characterized by, or suggestive of an idealized, sentimental, or fantastic view of reality; remote from experience"but what does romantic from experience mean? perhaps a fairly idealized view of the world. i admit that. i can be naive at times, sure. but i actually like that. some good folks believe that romance is apart from the day to day....apart from the experience. err.. i don't think i totally agree. i believe there can be a daily romance that pervades. i think romance is like that. for me, it comes as a learned trait from reading all the poets who rejoiced the minutiae. eventually one just starts to see romantic things over and over...things that are there, but too small at times to get through the white noise of daily stress.