Have we forgotten how to love?

It is after a long time that I did not know how to begin my blog.

Usually, I write about subjects that have made their own little corner in my head. Just like anyone else, I come across so many people, situations and events every day and anything that stands apart leads me to write. I do not necessarily blog everything but only those few pieces for which I look for opinions. 

This specific question definitely qualifies as one.

Pardon my creativity for failing to come up with a fancy beginning for this one. I am not sure if I can possibly provide any depth to a subject so thought-provoking at a fundamental level but the recent years of my life have gifted me with ample opportunities to grow emotionally and hence I chose to address this particular topic that has been a constant source of bemusement for me.

Love, as an industry is doing great. Isn't a wonder that the mechanical wheels of the capital markets run on the fuel of something that is intrinsically so organic? We buy products that we love, in the name of love, for the people we love and yet everything about our lives these days is pushing us further away from it. Ironically, for our generation which chants the slogans of self-love the most, depression consumes more of us every passing day. I do not intend to convey that these turn of events are consequential in any manner, yet, this truth pinch is necessary to know that finding and being in love is difficult. In fact, it is so difficult that we all have grown up to be too cautious. I may take the liberty and speak for all those who identify themselves as "romantics", people are now tired of getting heartbroken. When we come to think of it, is anything worth having easily achieved?

Either we are too scared of being scarred or the modern mechanics of convenience has spoilt us all. Some of us want for love to be easily served to us, much as the everyday purchases we make online. A few clicks and it should be done, no commitments, no strings attached. Who does not like to have the option of returning the items if they do not fit us well? Sure, it is convenient but is it, love, if we are too scared to commit? Why walk into a relationship at all if it is the availability of a 'trial period' that seems more significant?

The whole idea of love has been so heavily diluted that I think none of us really know what it feels like to be really in love. In my generation, we prefer to avoid falling in love because we believe that it would take us away from our goals and ambitions in life. We have been so heartbroken at some point in our lives that we just do not find the concept of 'love' to be worth trying for. It is so easy to swipe away or swipe in people that the little acts of love seem like an exaggeration to us. The possibility of growing emotionally, trusting without fear, having the freedom of being yourself and the support to achieve your ambitions, all of this sounds like a concept too abstract even for the unicorn lands.

I do not know what it may feel like to fall in love that you don't want to fall out of but I am sure that one thing our generation can boast of is perseverance. We will not stop having faith in the idea of love. An idea that is so beautiful that it is difficult to believe in its reality. This generation runs on hope, the hope of finding that someone, even if it takes swiping our way through each other to the one who will stay. All my hopes and beliefs in a box, I would just close it a wish that we do not dilute the idea of love any further. We do not mistake our needs for love. For love is not a need, it is a luxury that we all deserve.