An entire industry is founded upon this search to find love, in the form of online dating agencies. Single people across nations seeking that coveted phenomenon we call love.
Incidentally, for cynics like myself, love has become a cliché. Something to turn one’s nose up at. Something I don’t want, and have never wanted. I am, of course, referring to ‘romantic love’. Relationships. Everywhere one turns, we see bad films and clumsily written literature dedicated to this industry of love. But, are we losing sight of reality? In our daily lives, is love so simple? Do we always end up with ‘the one’? We do not. In our lives, romantic love can very often be source of pain and confusion. Something we don’t want. It changes our opinions of ourselves. If unrequited, we wonder what we did wrong, not the other way around. Failure in love is seen as pitiful and slightly embarrassing. We don’t like to admit to ourselves, let alone others, that we were unsuccessful. That our love was not returned.
Bridget Jones had the right idea when referring to ‘smug married types’. They seem to drift through life, content in their safe and stable relationships, smug and in awe of unmarried women. A single woman – heaven forbid!
Safety and stability. Do we want this? Or are we searching for something more exceptional?
In our quest for something out of the ordinary, pain may be inevitable, tears a certainty. But it is guaranteed to blow your mind.
