You know how the books and movies and all that say pregnant women are hormonal and cry at everything? I’m not like that. Well, not usually. Last night was the Jim and Pam wedding on The Office. Paul and I have long been fans of The Office, the humor, the storylines (Jim and Pam, Dwight and Angela…), I hate when it’s the Winter/Summer break!
As I said before, last night was the Jim and Pam wedding. Thankfully, NBC devoted an entire hour to this episode, as they should have. I don’t think I’m going to go into too many details here, but let me say, at the end, when they show the montage of J & P running off to the Niagara Falls boat to get married on their own along with the hilarious spoof of the viral youtube video seen here , tears were rolling down my face. I’m not a happy crier. The only wedding I cried in was my own (and BOY did I cry). Why did I even cry then? What brings on a happy tear?
I’m a fan of romance, a fan of love stories that make you believe there is true love in this world. In our own little way, I think Paul and I are somewhat a love story. Because of how our relationship came to be (after 5 years of not seeing each other at all), it positively aggravates me to see couples in love but not able to be together, whether from their own hand or the input of someone else. This is why I kept watching “The Office”, hoping that sooner or later the writers/producers would decide to go beyond the Ross/Rachel formula and to just let J&P be together already. I seriously doubt I would continue to watch had they somehow come up with a way to drag out the J&P “will they or won’t they” business.
There aren’t many shows that have episodes that you could watch again and again. Fortunately, The Office has a multitude of episodes that I could watch constantly, and after last night, it seems they have added another to my list. I don’t know if it was how the writers perfectly encapsulated the personas of the couple in their wedding, or if it was Dwight wearing that ridiculous Three Wolves shirt (read the reviews, FUNNIEST THING EVER), or the fact that despite all the waiting… they are together, and about to have a family.
So conceited of me, but I think about that a lot- where I would be if Paul hadn’t waited for me. I always ask him, “Where do you think you’d be if I hadn’t found you after all?” He always says, “I knew we’d get together eventually.” Just like Jim, he waited. Unlike Jim, though, he didn’t have to work with me every day (at least not after the first breakup).
Watching that Office episode had me in tears. Happy tears. Knowing that from now on, I no longer have to worry that somehow their relationship will get screwed up. I think it’s because now, they’re married, and whatever life throws their way they can handle. The hard part was getting there, now comes the easy part.
Ha. Said the woman who married ten years and two days after the day she first started dating her husband. I think that for any couple with a long story like ours, we long to hear about other couples who managed to figure it out as well.
Congrats Jim and Pam. And yes, I DO know they’re actors. So, Congrats to The Office. This episode was my favorite episode of all time.
