/silently watches my naïveté chip away
Monday, 15 June 2015 | 0 letters
HELLO! THIS IS SUCH AN ENTHUSIASTIC BEGINNING THAT DOESN'T FIT WHATEVER THAT'S GOING TO FOLLOW. I'm going to talk about how overrated romantic relationships are! I'd always believed that it would be best to settle down (aka get married) and have a few kids until... some stuffs happened. :/
This gross exaggeration of the goodness of romances can be partially ascribed to how "love" is often used as a synonym to "nearly any romantic relationship". Nope. Love is selfless, unconditional and kind. But most people who are "in love" obviously have not achieved that level. In my mind, I used to think that romantic relationships are actually THAT good? How wrong I was to feel that way. God. Most of the time, we aren't in love, we're just infatuated. Or we are kind of in love. A word so heavy shouldn't be thrown about frivolously.
Also, we ARE in love with the idea of being in love. So naturally it's easy to think too positively of romances.
Contrary to popular belief, it isn't necessarily good to be married. More than half of all marriages are either dysfunctional or fleeting. I wouldn't want to have either of those happen to me because. It sucks to divorce and also it sucks (even more) to be trapped in a loveless matrimony.
So, no. The most reliable loves in your life are your family members and your good friends. Your lover is not someone whom you should depend on for happiness.
Of course, I'm not going to go out of my way to avoid romantic love, but I have my reservations. I have to plunge in knowing well that romantic love is fragile.
Oh, that reminds me. We also tend to think too highly of romance because often we mistake the superficial interest "lovers" often have in each other for love. Infatuation is not love.
It is terribly rare to find the right one for yourself.
Lastly if you dont already know, I'm in the
I HATE PEOPLE!!!!
mood
I swear. I can't wait for the world to be replaced with Moomins! (Yes PLS let me be reborn as Snuffkin or little me or anything in the moomin series that's not human thank you)
