IS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT POSSIBLE IN THE 21st CENTURY?
- Mahima Saxena
- Dec 21, 2015
- 2 min read
It was only a decade ago when the four- letter appellation given to a beautiful relationship involving two souls ,’LOVE’, had greater and deeper connotations to it.
It was thought of as much more than a feeling. It was not just an experience, it was meant to be a passion. That was the kind of love experienced by the generations gone by. Back then, love wasn’t something you would try and look for, instead it was believed that love would find you anyway and henceforth those serendipitous encounters were meant to last for a lifetime.
Our veterans valued love as they valued their own lives.The love at first sight was meant to only grow and become tenacious with time . The first sight of your soulmate ,in the age of our parents would never be a mere fleeting one, the souls would know that there is a deeper connection.
But has this truly devout feeling , that one would yearn for lost its appeal ; its magic. The concept of flings and the flippant manner in which this word is thrown around has denigrated it to be called merely a word in the 21st century. The concept of ‘love- at- first- sight' has totally vanished into thin air. The society and its denizens, you and me, have become meaner and more materialistic.
The vice called cupidity has overshadowed the ability of people to appreciate the virtue of love and respect. There is no meeting of souls .The encounters of ‘ bodies’ happen only to gauge the viability and feasibility of being in a relationship with the other. Traits that are superficial and give us an ephemeral satisfaction such as a beautiful demeanour or opulence of the counterpart have become more important to each one of us. The pragmaticity in the attitudes of each one of us has overpowered the longing to fall in love.
People fall in love not with their heart these days but with their eyes. The beautiful relationship between two people, that was meant to be one of love , is now relegated to be called as an outcome of infatuation and lust. The concept of love at first sight started making its way into the sink hole of extinction with the growing prevalence of net and the anonymity associated with it.
Moreover, the growing developments in technology has vested so much power in the hands of each one of us that its use and abuse due to growing anonymity has distorted the interpretation of trust amongst us. People are no longer what they purpot to be. One views the other as wearing a veneer of respectability and perfection hence the need to unmask each other and familiarize is viewed as indispensable before ‘allowing’ oneself to fall in love .
The disheveling levels of trust combined with the paucity of perseverance has totally diluted the significance of the love-at –first-sight. Once a divine and pristine affair, the love-at-first-sight is merely a passé expression that has been tarnished by the vices that are deep seeted in each one of us.
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