don’t love like my generation does
we’re a generation of broken people. we take things either too seriously or casually. we open our hearts, love with everything we have, travel 10kms just to get an ice-cream with them, or we shut people out, ghost them, and binge-watch all day.
we are not the first generation to be going through several crises at once – unemployment, recession, lockdown, a civil war, and a pandemic – yet our only plan to fight against all of this is by looking at memes. we smile, smirk, and laugh, go back to feeling lonely. that’s us.
our generation redefined love stories. we all have heard stories from our elders, how they would meet secretly after school or call on the landline and hope their lovers pick up the phone instead of their parents. but now, we hang out in cafes and snap when we’re bored.
once upon a time, we’d fall in and fall out of love without our parents ever finding out about it. but now, it’s not true love unless you post a picture with them on the internet.
we ruined the concept of love. we seek solace in moments that don’t last. from one night stands to casual dating, everything is available on our fingertips, and it is all okay, but the problem is that we’re the generation who has forgotten to love selflessly, to stand up for love, to believe in something, like the concept of forever.
we don’t practice what we preach. we read books like ‘the fault in our stars’, consume movies like ‘me before you’, and we all want a happy ending, but we don’t put efforts. we don’t cross mountains or even puddles.
we just want all things to happen quickly. did we forget to love? we run before we can walk. we are not shy, we’re forward. we approach people we like. when we get bored, we move onto the next person. our bio says, “thank you, next”.
we’re leaving behind too many broken hearts and broken hearts raise broken families. perhaps, we’re the last generation who will love. anyone after us, they will all be in love with the concept of love.
