Having a crush is the most normal thing to have but does this normal thing always have healthy outcomes?
Do we actually know what separates love from a crush?
“Love between us is speech and breath,
Loving you is a long river running.” A phrase by an anonymous poet which breathes love.
Love is like a drug, it intoxicates you if you let it and has a strong grip on you.
It makes you smile in the most mundane situations and shed tears even when there’s no reason attached to it.
Love saturates all your diluted emotions.
Love is neither a want nor a need, it’s something bigger, much bigger for us to understand.
Till what extent is CRUSH CULTURE healthy?
The huge crush you have on the boy next door(who you’ve never really even talked to) but still keep on dwelling on the what ifs, keep on going through the photos hidden in the gallery and living in a reality which stops being real after you open your eyes.
All this data in your mind related to him, his physique, his eyes
Pretty much the idea of him accumulated in your head because at the end of the day all the little figments you’ve gathered about your crush, are the parts of his personality or, your mind?
You go on and install all of it in a VR headset.
These headsets allow you to go on dates with him, with him being exactly how you imagined him to be.
Your want to be with him is being met daily but after a while it starts to get monotonous, simply you’re bored of him and now you just want to get rid of him so you take out his chip from the VR headset.
The next crush you develop, you gather information of him and upload it again in your favourite machine to start “dating” again.
10-15 boys down the line and you realise that everything that is happening is exactly how you presumed it to be, but where’s the fun in that? The sweetest thing about life is it’s unpredictable nature which you’ve disrupted to fulfil your wants.
This innovation is doing its work and quenching your thirst of wants but
Is it fulfilling your needs?
At the age of 50
Your bed side drawer has energy bars, rubber and vibrating devices but no photo frames above it.
You have a glass of wine in one hand, a surrogate child in another with your eyes glued to the headset on 100th fling because you wanted it.
This VR headset never lets you get rejected, it never leaves you paralysed on the bathroom floor, you don’t need to open the tap to mask your own cries.
We all seek love in one way or another but many a times we don’t get reciprocated, ever wondered why?
Let me put it this way
Have you ever gone out for ice cream but with cavities in your teeth?
Do you stop having ice cream or go to the dentist and get them filled?
Is it the ice creams fault or yours?
Is love causing pain or your own hollowness?
Avoiding rejections is the only benefit this machine offers you, but at what cost?
Being rejected by someone only redirects you to your lover.
Have faith and let it happen.
Love Prakriti.
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