seems like someone picked out 3 words from the dictionary that they think most important in life and made them appear to be the 3 words that everybody wants to hear. but in reality, do they mean as much as made out to be?
"i" - everybody wants to be the center of the world. to think that the world revolves around them. it's always "i" want or "i" have or "i" am.
"you" - just because i'm speaking to you.
"love" - what everybody wants. from a parent, from a friend, from a significant other that you have feelings for, or not. everybody wants to be well-loved. some people say they don't care if others hate them or dislike them but there's always this part of every single person that wants to be loved, one way or another.
but really, is this all just magnified? it goes up there in 2 out of 5 parts of the maslow's hierarchy of needs. 1. friendship, family, sexual intimacy which leads to 2. self esteem, confidence, achievement, respect.
it's a marketing tactic - love (besides sex) sells. what's a great movie without fitting some love scenario in there somewhere? in an action packed movie with guns blazing and flying kicks, someone always falls in love with the hero. in a crime movie, the misdeed almost always arises from a misfortunate love incident, be it loving one too much or being scorned by love. in a comedy, love still works its way in there. the loser gets the girl or someone falls in love with the funny girl that nobody would even take a second look at.
in today's world, does these 3 words still mean a thing? people suppress that strong emotion of affection that they have for someone else, people forget how one person used to mean so much, people don't really care if they're being loved by someone else.
how cynical is this society now? it used to be when boy meets girl, girl meets boy, they fall in love and live happily ever after. but just one generation down the road, with the rapid evolution of society and the complications that a higher education and larger network brings, l.o.v.e doesn't seem to mean much anymore.
the vows that a couple take at the alter is simply a rite of tradition and imposed by the old ways that stands against the evolution of time and turns 50% of these vows into potential broken promises.
i'm new aged, part of the generation that is no longer conservative and believe in doing what we want to do but i guess there's still that part of me that want to believe in promises and hold on to emotions and want to trust that loving another can never end but what a deadpan cynic this world has thrusted me into. wanting to believe and believe becomes two separate matters.
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