Love Dissected

What has happened to love of today?

Not merely a question but an INTROSPECTION!

Has love always been the same? I meant the ways of love, the strangeness of love, uniqueness to love & the feelings which brought it up, were all these any different than what they are now, precisely, since the advent of mobile phones & their ta-da with the youth around 2004-2005.

Though, in  my case I really don't hate cellphones as I got the pleasure of romancing over those sturdy black moto-nokia beauties, weighing 250 gms+

Going back to love of 60s & 70s.... boys & girls of our generation can just imagine what it meant to carry a relationship without talking to each other every alternate minute, without seeing each other for days. What if one partner was to point out a habit which he/she din't like in their beloved, would they write a letter or just make a trunk call from the nearest (sometimes far off) STD Booth to say "why don't you mend your ways else just wait & watch ***"?. They simply accepted each other as they were or may be I really don't know.

The point I am trying to quest is whether these cellphones have raised the tensions or eased the way we love.

Anyway, I am too shy to ask my grand parents, grand uncles etc etc, so I am taking the liberty to dissect love of 70s on my own...I promise it will be over in a blink..

In those days, love was bound to be too local (geographically). Love sparked off in colleges/offices/mohallas (nayi padosan/bachpan ka pyar) most of the times & was duly taken care off in parks (no, not that way), cinema halls or restaurants (over do half chai). It was then, that it converted into a bond with consent of respective families (after duly matched kundlis). See I told you, over in a blink ::::

It's a different scenario these days. Love happens over the air (read cellphones) & taken care off at malls (having a gyarah wali mc swirl) & transforms sometimes into a bond with or without prior approval from parents, could it have been more simpler?

Isn't strange "over-the-air", I mean you don't see, you don't meet & you fall in love. Well, it meets a dead end a lot of times. But to make sure it doesn't, you know what it takes more than anything else...COMMITMENT (period)

The commitment in past came after one got married, of course under normal circumstances you commit to take care of wife, don't you. The commitment today has many threats (like a new girl, an interesting colleague, crazy road trip with friends, scarcity of talk time) & comes much earlier than one thinks. If you are committed to make your relationship successful, then only it will. Commitment has to come from within, whatever it takes, one has to try to work out his/her relationship differently. This is though rare to find these days.

On the other hand, I think dissecting love will always be as meaningless as this post. Love whatever way you want to..