Just Friends? Are You Sure About That?

It's time to talk about a rental, one that's been out for a few years now. "Just Friends" stars Ryan Reynolds as a fat kid in high school, who's in love with his best friend, Amy Smart. At a graduation party, he decides to finally tell his long-time love that he is, in fact, in love with her, but she responds by saying "I love you... like a brother". OUCH! So, what does he do? He gets skinny (and hot), moves to Hollywood, becomes a ladies man and becomes a successful music executive. Flash forward ten years when he gets stuck in his Jersey hometown around Christmastime and runs into Smart. He loses all his confidence and starts acting like the overweight, dorky kid from high school. OK, so "just friends". You've heard the term a million times. "Me and so and so? Oh no, we're just friends." But if you've ever seen "When Harry Met Sally", you know that men and women can't ever really be friends, because one of them always wants to be with the other. Often times, when that person admits it, the two stop being friends all together... but other times, the two end up being a great couple, because they knew each other as friends first. You never know what will happen. So, do you risk it all telling that person knowing that you could lose him or her forever or do you go on living a bit of an untruth just so you can keep that person in your life? Has this happened to you? Care to share your experience? And here's something else to ponder, there's a recurring theme in the movie that says if you're just friends, you will go to LUNCH with that person. If he or she thinks it's a date, you'll go to DINNER. I admit, if I'm trying to keep it on a friendly basis, I feel like lunch is safer. Dinner gets a little riskier. Thoughts on that? Either way, next time you say "oh, we're just friends", think about if that statement REALLY is true.