a meme

this is what started everything. by alexis, Saturday, April 29, 2006 on this post
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There really is no such thing as love. it is a label given by society, to gather everything under that four-lettered word for things people take very long to explain if they have to analyse it. so you just call it love. because its one syllable, and romantic sounding. a sweeping, grand sound of tongue rolling off that long soft consonant.

come on, give it a thought. humans need each other for companionship. they want company. its just a simple business of needs and wants. not love, silly. you want security, you need money. you want someone to be there for you when everyone else is gone. you need a person because humanity deems it necessary for its propagation. or because you want to apply for that hdb flat. or you want someone to bitch to, to have intellectual conversations with, to hold hands with. not love, silly.

it is an explanation given for infatuation. because infatuation sounds like flatulance. so you call it love. it is simply a matching of needs and wants, and when you find the perfect match, you join it by Love. but many a times, the matching will not last, because people change and their needs and wants change. their perceptions, or to be more harsh, illusions, change. and then its gone. we are fickle by nature; its not about character, really.

yet we fool ourselves and in doing so fool everyone else. we decide to attribute all these to love so that we can be free not to think about what we actually are doing. so that we can blame irrational love for all the errors in judgement. because "love happened". bullshit.

its time for people to see it as it is man. call it sex, call it financial security, call it companionship, lust, infatuation, hormones, friendship. but don't bloody hell call it love. because there is no such thing.