I am single and a romantic person. Yet I hear people who are also single and romantic people say they are hopeless romantics. Yet as a single person who wishes to get married I would say I am a Hopeful Romantic. That is my dreams of romance and sitting on a hill and reading poetry may indeed come true. It's just a matter of finding someone to share that desire with. It is about finding someone sent from God to indeed share that desire for the rest of my life with. Is that then hopeless or hopeful? I say hopeful, for it is just a matter of time and patience before I can say to my wife someday, “Honey I waited for you.” I not only waited for the fulfillment of a romantic dream, but also for the bodily fulfillment of that dream, that is sex.
So really as a single romantic virgin that I am and proud to be, it is really a hopeful thing not a hopeless thing. A hopeless romantic would be someone who never thought the fulfillment of such a dream could happen. Yet a Hopeful Romantic is just waiting for it to happen. A person who goes to dance clubs and sleeps with many people really is not hopeful or a romantic because they have given up the hope of romance. Cheap sex must be just as good they figure, or at least quicker. Yet delayed gratification is really the Christian dream. Contrary to the concept of having your best life now, for a Christian your best life is coming. Yet when it arrives don't put your face too far into the pillow for the purpose to life is not yet possessed.
The maturing of the soul is the purpose of life and the fulfillment is natural death in this world and everlasting life in the world to come. Yet we take cheap pleasure now. OK not me, but a lot of people do. What's that new club? Is it called Aqua or Empire, or the Pleasure Cove? Or is it called futility? Search for pleasure and find pain. Search for God's will which may include pain, but it ends in bliss. Delayed gratification is my cry. Not forever delayed or I would be a hopeless romantic. As it is I am waiting for my love to come, and as such I am a Hopeful Romantic.
By: David S. Weaver
