A few days back, April 7th to be exact, I was thinking about grammar as I so often do, and was getting increasingly annoyed over the fact that people misuse the words “who” and “that”. When speaking about people we say “who”, like the boy who cried wolf. When speaking about objects we say “that”, like the ball that rolled. We don’t say the boy that cried wolf, because we’d be dehumanizing him. Back in 1954, Theodore Suess Geisel wrote a children’s book titled “Horton Hears a Who”. The main characters in this book aside from Horton himself are microscopic beings known as the Whos who live in Whoville.

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What is love? A child would call it “mom and dad”. A teenager would call it “that warm, fuzzy feeling”. Most adults would call it “sex”.But Christians call it “Jesus Christ”. I remember once when I was at winter camp in 2009, I was in a relationship comparable to a bipolar monkey trying to get through the day. Up at camp, they would teach us a new worship song and play it all the time, and this camp’s song was “True Love” by Phil Wickham.

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I’m not like all the other girls. I never had a standard of meeting my prince charming, nor did I ever believe I was any kind of Cinderella. But then I read Gone with the Wind. And then I watched the movie. While Cinderella and Prince Charming had a perfect little happily ever after relationship, Scarlett and Rhett had, well, a Scarlett and Rhett relationship. And I wanted it. I wanted that iconic movie poster image, I wanted that roller coaster relationship, I wanted that big sun hat, I wanted that eighteen and a half inch waist, I wanted those green eyes, I wanted to be Scarlett. Why? Because I didn’t believe in happily ever after. Gone with the Wind was realistic, not just some fairytale in Walt Disney’s mind.

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