Romance. Seems cheesy in the modern world. A world where men are too busy competing with women to sweep them off their feet, and women have too much power and dont need to be rescued. In a world like this, does romance exist? And if it does, then in what disguises?
What does one mean by romance? It means the phase when life feels like a dream. When your feet is no longer touching the ground, and your heart has wings. The practical, cynical part of you takes a vacation, and your eyes are the stars that bejewel the night. When your every hope, every faith, every wish, every breath, every heartbeat seems to belong to only 1 person. When the world seems to be just the 2 of you, and no one else.
In the world today, where cell phones are loud enough to wake the dead, organizers control every day of your life, the screen of the comp the only light you see, and responsibilities not giving you even a second to breathe, romance comes in short and measured phases.
I sometimes imagine whether the authors of summer romance stories, like "Bridges of Madison County", "Vicky Christina barcelona", and so on... knew what the world was coming to. Whether they had realised that soon, people would not have time to cherish romance for the rest of their lives. Nor would they have the patience to wait for their soulmates. So they would have to recognize, and surrender to that passionate, unattainable love, whenever it entered their life, no matter for how short a time.
It could come at a time when you are least expecting it. it could come at a time when you are single, in a relationship, married or engaged to be married. It could last 6 months. Or 3. Or even a day. But the memories will haunt you forever. You will spend your whole life, fondly thinking of those mesmerising moments when you had lived an entire lifetime with your soulmate within a span of few minutes,hours or weeks. Those exquisite moments when you felt special, cherished and touched. You felt beautiful, loved and a sweet yearning for your soulmate. Soon, real life and its cynicism will take over, and those moments will remain mere memories.
Romance could be short lived in a long relationship - like the first 6 months in a newly married couple , or a committed relationship. Or it could be in the form of freedom - which a young woman gives herself to fall in love with a man of her dreams before she marries the one who is right for her. It could be a matter of a few minutes, when 2 strangers share a beautiful conversation at a party and then part ways, with no exchange of realities like phone numbers or even names, and thus lose each other forever.
What makes us fall so hopelessly in love? What happens during those few minutes, when love is about that - just love. pure and unadulterated. When even the most clumsy oaf becomes graceful. When the most negative person blushes shyly and lowers her eyes. When the plainest Janes sparkle with beauty. What happens in those few minutes, when we let our guards down and throw ourselves to life's embrace?
Whatever it is, it dosent last for ever. Because, if it did, there would be nothing exquisite about it.
What does one mean by romance? It means the phase when life feels like a dream. When your feet is no longer touching the ground, and your heart has wings. The practical, cynical part of you takes a vacation, and your eyes are the stars that bejewel the night. When your every hope, every faith, every wish, every breath, every heartbeat seems to belong to only 1 person. When the world seems to be just the 2 of you, and no one else.
In the world today, where cell phones are loud enough to wake the dead, organizers control every day of your life, the screen of the comp the only light you see, and responsibilities not giving you even a second to breathe, romance comes in short and measured phases.
I sometimes imagine whether the authors of summer romance stories, like "Bridges of Madison County", "Vicky Christina barcelona", and so on... knew what the world was coming to. Whether they had realised that soon, people would not have time to cherish romance for the rest of their lives. Nor would they have the patience to wait for their soulmates. So they would have to recognize, and surrender to that passionate, unattainable love, whenever it entered their life, no matter for how short a time.
It could come at a time when you are least expecting it. it could come at a time when you are single, in a relationship, married or engaged to be married. It could last 6 months. Or 3. Or even a day. But the memories will haunt you forever. You will spend your whole life, fondly thinking of those mesmerising moments when you had lived an entire lifetime with your soulmate within a span of few minutes,hours or weeks. Those exquisite moments when you felt special, cherished and touched. You felt beautiful, loved and a sweet yearning for your soulmate. Soon, real life and its cynicism will take over, and those moments will remain mere memories.
Romance could be short lived in a long relationship - like the first 6 months in a newly married couple , or a committed relationship. Or it could be in the form of freedom - which a young woman gives herself to fall in love with a man of her dreams before she marries the one who is right for her. It could be a matter of a few minutes, when 2 strangers share a beautiful conversation at a party and then part ways, with no exchange of realities like phone numbers or even names, and thus lose each other forever.
What makes us fall so hopelessly in love? What happens during those few minutes, when love is about that - just love. pure and unadulterated. When even the most clumsy oaf becomes graceful. When the most negative person blushes shyly and lowers her eyes. When the plainest Janes sparkle with beauty. What happens in those few minutes, when we let our guards down and throw ourselves to life's embrace?
Whatever it is, it dosent last for ever. Because, if it did, there would be nothing exquisite about it.
