You Are My Lobster

Awwww. How sweet is that? You are my lobster. I am yours. We have that forever kind of love. Why? Did you never watch "Friends"? How Phoebe says--

"Come on, you guys. It's a known fact that lobsters fall in love and mate for life. You know what? You can actually see old lobster couples walkin' around their tank, you know, holding claws like..."

Coz lobsters mate for life. NOT!

Infact quite contrary to popular belief lobsters are a more mate-once-and-never-look-back-ever type of species. Actually if its a one night stand or a hook up is what you are looking for... then lobster is the metaphor you would want to use.

Why do we then keep referring to back to lobsters as symbols of undying love? Coz maybe there is something inherently charming about a hard-shelled fierce man falling hopelessly in love, and spending the rest of his life holding hands and walking around with his mate.

Just coz some scatter-brained fictitious character in some Sit-Com said this, we romantics just went ahead and believed it. I mean really have you even heard Phoebe's other theories? For example her theories of evolution, gravity, and whether or not her dead mother was reincarnated as a cat or not. 

Did we agree with any of those? Then why the lobster theory? Coz we like the way she shows old lobster couples holding claws. The idea makes us believe in that forever love. But alas the lobster theory is just that, a figment of Phoebe's fertile imagination.  

Please don't misunderstand me I love Phoebe. And whatever she says or does, she truly believes in them. But that doesn't mean we should shut our brain, right?

Why is it that our logic goes on a vacation when it comes to all matters of the heart? Why do we then throw all caution to the wind and start believing in everything? May be coz we all are hopeless romantics believing that there is and will be a happily ever after. 

But yeah all said and done... it does feel nice to say... "You are my lobster, and I am yours." Sounds much better than,"Let's have a one night stand, and get it over and done with."