overrated?

I like getting older. One of the realities, however, is that you start seeing the truth behind these ideals and fairytales that were sold to you growing up- when you were most impressionable.

"We all convince ourselves of things like this- not necessarily about Say Anything, but about any fictionalized portrayals of romance that happen to hit us in the right place, at the right time.. This is why I will never be satisfied by a woman, and this why the kind of woman I tend to find attractive will never be satisfied by me.  We will both measure our relationship against the prospect of fake love.  Fake love is a powerful thing... (popular media) manufacturing fake love... it's a perfect illustration of why almost everyone I know is either overtly or covertly unhappy...Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that feeling for real..they want men to adore them like Lloyd Dobler would, and they want women to think like Aimee Mann, and they expect all their arguments to sound like Sam Malone and Diane Chambers. They think everything will work out perfectly in the end...and they don't stop believing, because Journey's Steve Perry insists we should never do that....Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake..."  --Chuck Klosterman, "Sex, Drugs,  And Cocoa Puffs"