青春的快餐只要求快 不理哪一家
哪有玩味的空檔來欣賞 細緻淡雅
到大悟大徹將虎嚥的昇華
等消化學沏茶
至共你覺得苦也 不太差
-«苦瓜» 陳奕迅-
Why are relationships so hard today? Why do we fail at love every time, despite trying so hard? Why have humans suddenly become so inept at making relationships last? Have we forgotten how to love? Or worse, forgotten what love is?
We’re not prepared. We’re not prepared for the sacrifices, for the compromises, for the unconditional love. We’re not ready to invest all that it takes to make a relationship work. We want everything easy. We’re quitters. All it takes is a single hurdle to make us crumble to our feet. We don’t let our love grow, we let go before time.
It’s not love we’re looking for, only excitement and thrill in life. We want someone to watch movies and party with, not someone who understands us even in our deepest silences. We spend time together, we don’t make memories. We don’t want the boring life. We don’t want a partner for life, just someone who can make us feel alive right now, this very instant. When the excitement fades, we discover nobody ever prepared us for the mundane. We don’t believe in the beauty of predictability because we’re too blinded by the thrill of adventure.
We immerse ourselves in the inconsequentials of the city life, leaving no space for love. We don’t have time to love, we don’t have the patience to deal with relationships. We’re busy people chasing materialistic dreams and there’s no scope to love. Relationships are nothing more than convenience.
We look for instant gratification in everything we do – the things we post online, the careers we choose, and the people we fall in love with. We want the maturity in a relationship that comes with time, the emotional connect that develops over years, that sense of belonging when we barely even know the other person. Apparently, nothing’s worth our time and patience – not even love.
We’d rather spend an hour each with a hundred people than spending a day with one. We believe in having ‘options’. We’re ‘social’ people. We believe more in meeting people than getting to know them. We’re greedy. We want to have everything. We get into relationships at the slightest attraction and step out, the moment we find someone better. We don’t want to bring out the best in that one person. We want them to be perfect. We date a lot of people but rarely give any of them a real chance. We’re disappointed in everyone.
Technology has brought us closer, so close that it’s impossible to breathe. Our physical presence has been replaced by texts, voice messages, snapchats and video calls. We don’t feel the need to spend time together anymore. We have too much of each other already. There’s nothing left to talk about.
We’re a generation of ‘wanderers’ who wouldn’t stay at one place for too long. Everyone is commitment phobic. We believe we’re not meant for relationships. We don’t want to settle down. Even the thought of it is scary. We cannot imagine being with one person for the rest of our lives. We walk away. We despise permanence like its some social evil. We like to believe we’re ‘different’ than the rest. We like to believe we don’t conform to social norms.
We’re a generation that calls itself ‘sexually liberated’. We can tell sex apart from love, or so we think. We’re the hook-up-break-up generation. We have sex first and then decide if we want to love someone. Sex comes easy, loyalty doesn’t. Getting laid has become the new getting drunk. You do it not because you love the other person, but because you want to feel good. It’s all the temporary fulfillment we need. Sex outside relationships isn’t a taboo anymore. Relationships aren’t that simple anymore. There are open relationships, friends with benefits, causal flings, one-night stands, no strings attached – we’ve left very little exclusivity for love in our lives.
We’re the practical generation who runs by logic alone. We don’t know how to love madly anymore. We wouldn’t take a flight to a far-off land just to see someone we love. We’d break up because, long distance. We’re too sensible for love. Too sensible for our own good.
We’re a scared generation – scared to fall in love, scared to commit, scared to fall, scared to get hurt, scared to get our hearts broken. We don’t allow anyone in, nor do we step out and love anyone unconditionally. We lurk from behind walls we’ve created ourselves, looking for love and running away the moment we really find it. We suddenly ‘cannot handle it’. We don’t want to be vulnerable. We don’t want to bare our soul to anyone. We’re too guarded.
We don’t even value relationships anymore. We let go of the most wonderful people for ‘the other fishes in the sea.’ We don’t consider them sacred anymore.
There’s nothing we couldn’t conquer in this world, and yet, here we are ham-fisted at the game of love – the most basic of human instincts. Evolution, they call it.
By Ankush Bahuguna
We’re not prepared. We’re not prepared for the sacrifices, for the compromises, for the unconditional love. We’re not ready to invest all that it takes to make a relationship work. We want everything easy. We’re quitters. All it takes is a single hurdle to make us crumble to our feet. We don’t let our love grow, we let go before time.
It’s not love we’re looking for, only excitement and thrill in life. We want someone to watch movies and party with, not someone who understands us even in our deepest silences. We spend time together, we don’t make memories. We don’t want the boring life. We don’t want a partner for life, just someone who can make us feel alive right now, this very instant. When the excitement fades, we discover nobody ever prepared us for the mundane. We don’t believe in the beauty of predictability because we’re too blinded by the thrill of adventure.
We immerse ourselves in the inconsequentials of the city life, leaving no space for love. We don’t have time to love, we don’t have the patience to deal with relationships. We’re busy people chasing materialistic dreams and there’s no scope to love. Relationships are nothing more than convenience.
We look for instant gratification in everything we do – the things we post online, the careers we choose, and the people we fall in love with. We want the maturity in a relationship that comes with time, the emotional connect that develops over years, that sense of belonging when we barely even know the other person. Apparently, nothing’s worth our time and patience – not even love.
We’d rather spend an hour each with a hundred people than spending a day with one. We believe in having ‘options’. We’re ‘social’ people. We believe more in meeting people than getting to know them. We’re greedy. We want to have everything. We get into relationships at the slightest attraction and step out, the moment we find someone better. We don’t want to bring out the best in that one person. We want them to be perfect. We date a lot of people but rarely give any of them a real chance. We’re disappointed in everyone.
Technology has brought us closer, so close that it’s impossible to breathe. Our physical presence has been replaced by texts, voice messages, snapchats and video calls. We don’t feel the need to spend time together anymore. We have too much of each other already. There’s nothing left to talk about.
We’re a generation of ‘wanderers’ who wouldn’t stay at one place for too long. Everyone is commitment phobic. We believe we’re not meant for relationships. We don’t want to settle down. Even the thought of it is scary. We cannot imagine being with one person for the rest of our lives. We walk away. We despise permanence like its some social evil. We like to believe we’re ‘different’ than the rest. We like to believe we don’t conform to social norms.
We’re a generation that calls itself ‘sexually liberated’. We can tell sex apart from love, or so we think. We’re the hook-up-break-up generation. We have sex first and then decide if we want to love someone. Sex comes easy, loyalty doesn’t. Getting laid has become the new getting drunk. You do it not because you love the other person, but because you want to feel good. It’s all the temporary fulfillment we need. Sex outside relationships isn’t a taboo anymore. Relationships aren’t that simple anymore. There are open relationships, friends with benefits, causal flings, one-night stands, no strings attached – we’ve left very little exclusivity for love in our lives.
We’re the practical generation who runs by logic alone. We don’t know how to love madly anymore. We wouldn’t take a flight to a far-off land just to see someone we love. We’d break up because, long distance. We’re too sensible for love. Too sensible for our own good.
We’re a scared generation – scared to fall in love, scared to commit, scared to fall, scared to get hurt, scared to get our hearts broken. We don’t allow anyone in, nor do we step out and love anyone unconditionally. We lurk from behind walls we’ve created ourselves, looking for love and running away the moment we really find it. We suddenly ‘cannot handle it’. We don’t want to be vulnerable. We don’t want to bare our soul to anyone. We’re too guarded.
We don’t even value relationships anymore. We let go of the most wonderful people for ‘the other fishes in the sea.’ We don’t consider them sacred anymore.
There’s nothing we couldn’t conquer in this world, and yet, here we are ham-fisted at the game of love – the most basic of human instincts. Evolution, they call it.
By Ankush Bahuguna
Came across this meaningful piece from Facebook and thought of sharing it here. THIS piece of work made me mull over a lot of things.
1. I'm not prepared for whatever consequences of getting into a serious relationship.
That thought just scare the hell out of me. Seeing friends sharing their life in the social media - getting married, pregnancy, having kids... all of these have never cross my mind, to be honest. Okay, maybe when imagination runs wild. And yea, parents would always say - when I was your age, I had you already. *roll eyes* So? That was your era. But back to the social media, the trend seems to be going back to my parents' era. And I had just received 2nd red bomb in my life. *sigh*
2. ♪ You say you dream of my face
But you don't like me
You just like the chase ♬
Yea, maybe I just enjoy being chased. Because that would make you feel wanted. I know this is a selfish way of saying things, but it's true. Otherwise, why girls complain about their boyfriends after committed into a relationship - like how their boys don't appreciate them, or like how things were different back then when their boys chased them? Reality is cruel. That's why I'm running away, each time when things gotten too deep/serious. Rational overruled.
3. Get to know someone new is exciting because curiosity can kill a cat.
I like stories. I like how those life experiences changed a person, in an unexpected way. But I'm a selfish cowardice. I afraid when I get to know you deeper, and you show me more of your flaws, eventually I left because I cannot take it. Or it happens the other way round. I overthink things, especially the worst case scenario that would ever happen. I'm not optimist like what Sagittarius is supposed to be.
I like stories. I like how those life experiences changed a person, in an unexpected way. But I'm a selfish cowardice. I afraid when I get to know you deeper, and you show me more of your flaws, eventually I left because I cannot take it. Or it happens the other way round. I overthink things, especially the worst case scenario that would ever happen. I'm not optimist like what Sagittarius is supposed to be.
4. Impatience.
This adjective describes me well. I used to think that maybe I'm just impatient on several things - one of those is waiting especially. But as the time passes, I seem to be impatient on, basically everything. Probably the time now seems to be flying instead of walking. I can't afford to do nothing whenever I have free time. Even though the things I did are just wasting of time. It's contradictory, I know but it's inevitable. We just don't live in the present.
This adjective describes me well. I used to think that maybe I'm just impatient on several things - one of those is waiting especially. But as the time passes, I seem to be impatient on, basically everything. Probably the time now seems to be flying instead of walking. I can't afford to do nothing whenever I have free time. Even though the things I did are just wasting of time. It's contradictory, I know but it's inevitable. We just don't live in the present.
5. Not enough time.
Working 5 days a week may seem to be normal for most of the people, but there're some of us out there work almost 24/7, dedicate our lives to the job, let alone time for ourselves. So when you finally have some time for your own, you received call from friends, boyfriend/girlfriend, family, asking to meet up and there gone your precious me-time. Sometimes, I feel like lying still, doing nothing, let the time slip through my hands. Such a luxury! However, hanging out would cost you some money and what's worst is that when you're out with friends and families, you're NOT there, you're not in the present, neither did anyone else. Everyone is so busy with their life in social media rather than the ones in front of them. Social media platform is created to bring people together but most of us have misused it.
Working 5 days a week may seem to be normal for most of the people, but there're some of us out there work almost 24/7, dedicate our lives to the job, let alone time for ourselves. So when you finally have some time for your own, you received call from friends, boyfriend/girlfriend, family, asking to meet up and there gone your precious me-time. Sometimes, I feel like lying still, doing nothing, let the time slip through my hands. Such a luxury! However, hanging out would cost you some money and what's worst is that when you're out with friends and families, you're NOT there, you're not in the present, neither did anyone else. Everyone is so busy with their life in social media rather than the ones in front of them. Social media platform is created to bring people together but most of us have misused it.
I guess I'll be such a long-winded whiny if I continued further. Haha. But you're welcome to do the pondering yourself. :)
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