Seriously now!
There’s got to be something more interesting than relationship updates right?
And definitely something more to our lives, other than the love affairs we’re in?
Can somebody please explain why and since when did everything in this world
start revolving only around relationships?
I’m
in a relationship. Good for you. I’m single. Oh, even better. It’s
complicated. Get the hell out of there! I’m confused. I’m dating. I’m
double dating. I’m sleeping around. I’m flirting. I’m desperate. I’m
heart-broken. I’m so stuck in a life that’s only about my relationship status.
And sometimes, yours too. So can we please have something new to talk about
now, please?
How I wish it ended
just there. We seem to be so stuck with this concept. It’s more like a
state-of-mind now. Like nobody thinks outside it anymore. For instance, I put
up a status msg a few days back that said ‘in
a bad mood’ and I get a hundred comments of which more than half ask me, ‘fought with your boyfriend?’, ‘broke up?’, ‘i
know how painful that can get girl’, ‘don’t worry just move on’, ‘find another
guy’, ‘wanna talk?’ So on and so forth. Ugh! For god’s sake I’m in a bad
mood because nobody noticed my new haircut! And my status updates could also be
about me and only me and nobody else, you see!
Aren’t we going a bit
too Gung-ho about this whole idea called relationships? I agree it’s a
beautiful feeling to be in love and all that. But why do we go overboard in
publicizing it so much? Why don’t we have anything better to talk about these
days? Why does everything have to be about that? Or are we just making up for
all the pseudo love happening around us? With all those fake emotions and
expressions doing their rounds, we seem to be finding solace in its popularity.
Like talking about it makes you sound profound. Your insecurities are pampered
when you talk about the highs and lows of your love life.
And it’s easily
buyable. Just look around. Isn’t everybody talking about it? From advertisers to
movie makers to writers to singers. Everybody’s got a point of view on love. An
opinion, like you know what. And who doesn’t believe in a well-narrated story
of love, life and hope these days?
I’m a romantic. An
eternal one at that. But I’d love it if love was made to feel special, like it
once did. If relationships were not just about status updates and likes and
comments. I’d rather go looking for that silly idea it used to be than delve
deep into what it really means. I would stop throwing it around and would not make
a hero out of it. High time we stopped facebooking love and started showing some
real love, people?
