A thousand years
Here's a little gem from the pop culture abyss that is Breaking Dawn , one of the Twilight movies. I've seen this movie, of course. Vampires are cool, especially sparkly ones. This song made it to a billion views on YouTube, which seems utterly impossible to me. That's the power of a good teen movie/book/multimedia juggernaut, something that packages unbridled lust with romance and, uh, bloodlust. But, that's not my interest in this song. The line that sticks out to me is, "I have died every day waiting for you." Although I don't consider myself a patient person, I've exhibited patience quite a bit in the past. I waited the greater part of two decades for a woman to come around and realize the kind of person I am and who she was callously abusing. My patience finally wore thin and, tragically, I realized that even if she came to her senses at some point in the future, my ability to trust her was irreparably damaged. Without trust, there ...