Unnecessary Thought 03: Love Letter & Chocolate

As i promised, here comes a post about love. Love? What is love? merely a word? Or expression? Perhaps even a dream, where it is always in front of your own eyes, but out of your reach. If love exist, what is true love? If you considered that having a lasting relationship with someone is a true love, are you saying your previous relationships are based on fake feeling? If it is fake, why did it came from your mouth that time?

Enough with these nonsensical questions. I am here to preach about modern love and classic love. Skip and throw away all those pictures of love movie that you have in mind right now. Cheryl and Bowie both see modern love as a less-honesty based feeling compared to classic love. It is how we approach love that differentiates modern and classic love where we has always been spontaneous in direct in our approach nowadays. This is also the main reason why Valentine Day lose its meaning. In fact, we don't really anticipate the coming of V-day as the people before us did. Why do we change in the first place? If classic love is so good, why does it evolve to something worse? Isn't evolution means the ability to adapt? Isn't evolution a good thing?

If we look at the classic love deeper, we will see how twisted can it be, causing it to evolve to modern love. Yes, we have been installed with the view of sending secret letters and chocolate as romantic, but has any of you experiencing it yourself? One thing that modern love still has from classic love is secret admirers. Most of you must have been admiring someone secretly. How does it feel? Exhausting isn't it? The desperateness is incomparable right? Now imagine this scenario, you aren't just admiring someone, but now you also has to wait for for his/her response to your love letter. It's double anticipation. Writing a love letter itself is a harder effort than just confessing your love personally. So if you are rejected, your hurt will be doubled compared to modern love. Your exhaustion also will be doubled since you are not just being a secret admirer, but you also have to wait for his/her reply to your letter. Cheryl also said that modern love has less direct communication, but if we think carefully about it, modern love is more direct, and require more courage. How many of you can muster the strength to meet your beloved one up-close and confess it full heartedly? And isn't confessing it is the most direct you can go instead of classic love, where the medium is via love letters and middle man.

There are more reasons why classic love is as twisted as modern love, but i will leave that up to all of you to think and decide. I admit that the thought of having classic love right now exist in my heart, being a romanticist, and pros of classic love seems to outweigh modern love's pros, but as what Bowie said, classic love doesn't work in today's world. So the question that still remains in my heart is, if modern love is bad, then how we, modern people, live with it and sustain the feeling so that it won't vanish?