Smh
Smh. Abbreviation for "shake my head". It's used to convey disappointment and dissatisfaction. The avoidable tragedy of Othello had me "smh"ing for sure.
The story of Othello reminded me of a movie I watched over Thanksgiving break. It's called Love, Rosie. It follows the life of Rosie, specifically her situationship with her best friend Alex. Rosie and Alex are best friends since, practically, birth. Like any romantic comedy, Rosie obviously starts to develop feelings for Alex as they grow and mature together. From the audience's perspective, we clearly see that Alex has the same feelings, but Rosie can't see that because they won't communicate with each other. Their miscommunication leads to them going to their annual school dance separately with other dates, which leads to Rosie getting pregnant by a different man, which leads to Alex going to college abroad alone (they had agreed to study abroad together but Rosie stays back), which leads to Alex getting engaged to another woman, which leads to multiple other things that I won't spoil (go watch it :)).
The whole time I was watching the movie I was just thinking, "Please someone just say something and live a happy life together!!". I know realistically that's a pretty hard thing to do, especially when both parties are stubborn and scared of confrontation, but I couldn't hide my disappointment because losing all the years they could've been living happily together would've been avoided if they just talked and listened to each other. I'm guessing both Rosie and Alex didn't say anything because their friendship was beautiful and saying something could've potentially ruined it which would've had me sobbing even more.
Contrary to Othello, there was an eventual happy ending, but the buildup to get to that point had me shaking my head.
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