Love - Such a romantic thing, isn't it? Well consider this. Reproduction. Does it have the same zing to it? Because the latter you must have most likely heard in a "boring" science class on how "species produce their offspring to ensure the continuity of their own genetic material". Pshewww...ma'am, take a break. However harsh it may sound, the first word 'love' is just a chemical reaction in our heads to facilitate the latter. To "live together forever". Who's gonna live forever? Of course, it is indeed our scumbag DNA forever entwined in an awkward double helical embrace. I understand your preoccupation with increasing urges to call me an idiot. "duh", you might be thinking. And that's just the reaction I was expecting. Why the preoccupation with love as something so high up on the emotional pedestal, that people are literally becoming wired from day one to think that the ultimate aim in life is to find a partner that most of us will already find even if we weren't so preoccupied with finding it? Movies, songs, fairy tales..news, magazines even god damn Nickelodeon TV... the entire entertainment industry spew out the same stuff over glorifying love and it's sleazy partner, sex. They don't even get to the part of having kids even though that's the entire point from an evolutionary and bio'logical' point of view. Almost seems like people are programmed to 'believe in the magic of love', the fruition of which seems to be the ultimate aim of a major chunk of the world population exposed to this toxic culture. We often like to see ourselves as the spurned heroes of our own love story, at times not understanding that things would have probably worked out if we had not tried too hard to the point of acting like fucking Don Quixote fighting windmills. It's not love, more like a societal obligation to act as weird as possible until you think that the situation has crossed into 'Romeo and Juliet' territory to justify why it was not
meant to be. Oh, the tragedy of a lifetime!! Only that the same person
will often be seen serenading another one immediately after they
finish lamenting the loss of the 'love of their life'. The point being
that there are countless number of people in the world and it's
almost guaranteed that you will meet someone someday that you will feel
is okay to 'start a family with'. There's no meaning in pursuing something that doesn't actually matter as much in your life contrary to how it is being portrayed. To be happy you need to put in some actual effort regardless of having a partner or not. Even in the off chance you don't actually meet anyone, then consider yourselves awesome and pursue things in life that
are much more interesting than just being an intermediate carrier of
DNA. Borrowing from the words of the most venerable Mark Manson , "Just
don't give a fuck".
