A reaction on Max Schulman's "Love is a Fallacy"

Max Schulman's “Love is a Fallacy” is one of the best love stories I already read. At first, I had a hard time understanding the story for it has so many unfamiliar words to me. But just as I read it over and over again, it makes me understand it much better and it makes me love the story so much. It talks about one reality in life, when you fall in love and how are you willing to take those risk just for that love.

It was actually a “.love triangle”. I really appreciated the main character. He must really be a good guy. He did everything for the girl and choose to spend his time with her. That what must all guys should do!*laugh*...But it still ends up that the girl(Polly) choose the main character's friend(Petey) over him,and the worst thing is that Polly choose Petey over him just because he had a raccoon coat. She only liked him just because of that material thing that made him belong to the “Big Men” in school, what a shallow reason,right? (But that's just my opinion! )...But how can she choose Petey over this guy who did everything for her and was so true to his feelings? The guy who choose to be with her than Petey, the one she barely even know most especially when it talks about sincerity of love.

For me, love cannot be test through a material thing. If he gives you flowers and chocolates or not. If he spends a lot on your dates and always treat you for a dinner and an outing. But love? It's how sincere the person is, of how that person is willing to do everything for your love and those things he can give up for you. Most especially? It's not important for me if “my boyfriend” is famous and popular and is known to be one of the coolest guy who got the cutest look and wear those branded, cool jeans and stuff...but what matters most is that i know he is worth to be my boyfriend and I love him not just because of any material thing but the real him without those factors that makes up a “popular, cool guy!”

I don't know why the story entitled “Love is a Fallacy”. Fallacy is defined as erroneousness, an invalid reference or the quality of being deceptive. But is love really a false notion? Maybe when people say, a wrong timing and not in the right time yet. But you never choose the person you fell in love to. Most especially you'll never know when that happens and why that happened. So, when love comes our way, we can never avoid it and especially love can never be a false notion because falling in love is beyond our control...Well..in some points of life, things happen for a reason just as when love knocks your door, let it in for it has a reason!