Thursday, 07 October 2010

• L Is For The Way You Look At Me...

   

  I haven’t blogged in a while. I’ve had this one for almost a year and haven’t posted in it.

  I thought I’d being blogging again with a topic that has been on my mind recently. That age old thing...

  Love

  The topic came to mind as I was taking the metro home after work on Tuesday evening. It was a pretty full carriage; I finish at 3 so it was full of school children on their way home.

  I was expecting to be surrounded by 15/16 year olds for the entire journey. Suddenly, as we pulled into the station nearest to the one I was getting off at, an old couple boarded. They sat opposite me and they must have been in their seventies at least. I noticed first of all that they were holding hands which I found incredibly sweet. Then, as they sat down, the husband lent across to the wife and pecked her on the lips before she laid her head on his shoulder. It was the sweetest thing I’d seen in a long time. It made me wistful. When I’m that age, I want to be still married and in love with the person who I marry. Yet, I feel that in this day and age it isn’t very likely. This old couple must have met in a time where romance and long lasting relationships were the norm. In today’s society, we’re surrounded by Divorce, Single Parent Families, the normality of sleeping around and not ever getting married.

  People have come to expect too much, there are unrealistic expectations  centred around love now that were never really a problem in the past, we have the media and production companies to blame for this. I stumbled upon a little picture on the internet the other day that made me laugh because of the truth of it:

   

  (Image source: stuffnoonetoldme.blogspot.com)

   

  Love as it was, pure love appears to be a difficult thing to find when a lot of people are so driven by their need to find perfection in a relationship. With women, we want our Prince Charming, the perfect guy that will be courteous and respectful and just plain damn nice. Yet, when we find him, he’s often not attractive enough to give a second glance to; Prince Charming has to be attractive (If Disney is to be believed that is). As for men, pornography does appear to give a false ideal of what a woman should look like, should act like, etc. It begs the question of whether pure love would be more widespread if it weren’t for the media.

  The Beatles once sang ‘All You Need is Love ...” but apparently that isn’t true anymore. I’m 21, I’m looking to date yet every time I find a guy that I have a modicum of interest in, it appears that they’re only after one thing. I know all guys aren’t like that but it appears as though most of the guys that live where I do are.

  Does true love even still exist?

  Is it possible to find love in such a beauty based society?

  These are questions that have plagued me for a while.

  Hopefully I’ll find a love like the couple that I saw on the Metro.

  Now to weed through the losers.

   

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