Love can be such a beautiful thing, but I feel like it’s unfortunately severely misunderstood by society at large. I think people underestimate the power of love because it seems to many like little more than a nice concept, only a mere fantasy which hardly translates to real life, especially when it comes to romantic love. Due to its immaterial and abstract nature, love has become something we almost don’t even consider real anymore, like how most people feel when it comes to energy, or spirits and things of that sort. It’s also easy for us to take love for granted because most of us got used to receiving it since birth, to some degree. All of these factors make it easy for us to go through life as if love didn’t exist, trying to make things happen by pure force, feeling like we need to be ready to bump heads with whoever stands between us and our objectives, and ultimately feeling a sense of horrible dread, as if everything is a duty, a responsibility that must be carried out for its own sake. Now, perhaps the biggest misconception I think people have about love is that it has to be based on some kind of continuous feeling, like butterflies in one’s stomach or however else it’s usually described. In my honest opinion, I think love has a lot more to do with commitment than feeling. Think of your parents. Think of how many times you’ve fucked up and disappointed them. Have they ever stopped loving you? You might say that’s not fair, since they created you, and are therefore forced to love you. That’s exactly my point though. The love is unconditional, and that’s why it’s strong, and that’s why it works. When we treat love as something conditional, and we base it on nothing but pure feeling, pure romance and adrenaline, then we are sure to start feeling like something is wrong as soon as those feelings start fading in the slightest. These days, so many people are frustrated with dating and relationships, and it’s really no wonder. In the days of apps like Tinder and the like, relationships have become little more than commodities, and if love is constantly left out of the picture, it’s only natural that we start treating relationships as disposable, meaning treating the people we’re in those relationships in, as disposable. Now, I am in no way saying that no one should ever break up with each other. That would be ridiculous. Some relationships are meant to last, and some just aren’t. So, what exactly am I saying then? What I’m saying, or rather asking, is if love can continue to flourish in a society where people are not really given the chance, because there are simply too many other options available. After all, this is the way most of us treat our products, and of course, there’s nothing really wrong with that. They are not alive. The issue arises when we start seeing the world through a pessimistic lens, and when we become nihilistic and see the world as devoid of all love. When we get to this point it can be really easy to start seeing, and treating, other people in much the same way as we treat our material possessions.
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rebel eye 