One of my ALL TIME FAVOURITE Brucas scenes!

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Brooke: What I wanted? I wanted you to fight for me. I wanted you to say there is no one else that you could ever be with and that you’d rather be alone than without me. I wanted the Lucas Scott from the beach that night telling the world that he’s the one for me.

Lucas: How was I supposed to know that?

Brooke: You just are.

Brooke Davis always says the things that girls wish they could say

Lucas:  I saw your light on.  Which isn’t that suprising, I mean, I know how hard you work.  You know, you haven’t been yourself lately. Peyton.  I mean, not the Peyton I remember.

Peyton:  Well, I haven’t been that Peyton for three years.

Lucas:  What’s going on?

Peyton:  Okay.  I went by my old house.  There’s a teenage girl living there now, and she showed me my closet door.  And you know what that said?  ‘Lucas and Peyton:  True Love Always’.  ’Always’, Lucas, that’s what we were supposed to have.  Until you showed up in LA three years ago and ambushed me.

Lucas:  If by ‘ambushed’ you mean proposed to you?

Peyton:  Oh yeah, out of the blue.  A proposal that was driven by some insecurity that I have never been able to understand.

Lucas:  Insecurity?  Right.  Let me tell you how you get ‘Always’, Peyton:  When a man asks you to marry him, you say ‘yes’.  You don’t say ‘no’ and call him insecure.

Peyton:  I never said no!  I said that I loved you, and that I did want to marry you someday.  And, oh God, Luke, I wanted you so bad—but you gave up on us.

Lucas:  I—I gave up on us!?

Peyton:  Yes!

Lucas:  By proposing, I gave up on us?

Peyton:  No.  By not waiting, you gave up on us and you know that’s the truth.

Lucas:  That’s great, Peyton!  You wanna talk truth?  Let’s tell the truth!

Peyton:  Okay.

Lucas:  You gave up on me, that’s why you didn’t say yes!  You didn’t think I could do it, you didn’t think I could get my novel published.  Maybe you just didn’t care, because it wasn’t about you, or what you wanted.

Peyton:  Well, if that’s the truth, if I never cared, then how come everytime I see this stupid book, I buy it?!  Every stupid damn time, Luke!  You said I was great!  You said I could be great!  You said we were destined to be together, you said it to the world, you said it to me, and I wish you never had because you did not mean any of it!

5x06 - Don’t Dream It’s Over

I love this scene. It was one of the most heart-wrenching Leyton scenes ever. More importantly, the thematic elements can resonate with a lot of 20-something year olds, here’s how I see it: Marriage should be a declaration of your love and commitment to each other. Simple in theory, but a little more difficult in execution.

The thing that’s wrong with a lot of my generation, is that we over-use words like “always” and “forever”, so much so, that the meaning behind those words have become completely redundant.

If you loved someone, REALLY loved someone, then you would wait till they were able to commit to you. This may be psychologically, physically, financially and even intellectually. But the point of it all is you’re supposed to wait.

And that itself is the problem. So many of us are not willing to wait. We use declarations of love and proposals of marriage as ultimatums. Any sign that the other person isn’t in the same headspace we automatically see as rejection and we render our feelings, which seemed so significant to us a mere moment ago, as unrequited love.

Why do we measure the importance of what we think and feel on weather or not they are mutually exclusive with someone else’s views and feelings? Do we no longer have the patience to wait for others? Do we no longer value conviction and believe in our own decisions?

Just because someone isn’t ready to spend “forever” with you right now, it doesn’t mean that they won’t be ready in the future. Your unwillingness to wait for them is indicative that YOU aren’t ready to spend “forever” with them.

People who put time limits and expiration dates on their feelings and on love…don’t get the privilege of using the word forever. Because, they don’t believe in it in the first place.