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Ara Bambi Nigeria
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In People and Society 2 min read
Love: The Romance We were Sold
<p><br/></p><p>You still don’t get “love”.</p><p> It’s ridiculous.</p><p>You hated the concept of it.</p><p>Maybe that was why you disliked romance.</p><p>The movies.</p><p>The books.</p><p>They were all about it.</p><p>They all revolved around love.</p><p>It was stupid.</p><p>Weird and cringe.</p><p>Filled with propaganda depicting love in a way it was never going to be.</p><p>Fantasy sold as truth.</p><p>Disguised as happily ever after.</p><p>And people still got fooled by it.</p><p>What was love anyways.</p><p>Because people made it seem like a fairytale.</p><p>Like it was worth everything.</p><p>Like it was worth that much.</p><p>Worth throwing your life away because of another person.</p><p>Devoting your life to another person who wasn’t entirely devoted to you.</p><p>People think it’s so beautiful but it really isn’t.</p><p>You’d seen people.</p><p> Heard their stories.</p><p>And seen what love had done to them.</p><p>It was bad.</p><p>It drained them.</p><p>Drains their will.</p><p>Feeds off their pain and their emotions.</p><p>It’s parasitic.</p><p>Painful.</p><p>Inconvenient.</p><p>It stripped you down till your happiness depended on another person existence.</p><p>And somehow people still saw all that as beautiful.</p><p>And when they eventually left.</p><p>You were left hurt.</p><p>Broken.</p><p>Then came the tears.</p><p>Then you forgetting how to live.</p><p>How you lived before they waltzed into your life different from how they waltzed out.</p><p>Society lies about a lot of things.</p><p>They tell you love is beautiful.</p><p>But they don’t talk about the dependence that comes with it.</p><p>The pain.</p><p>They say love is blind shouldn’t that be taken as a warning?</p><p>How was losing yourself in someone considered romantic?</p><p>They didn’t tell you in love your happiness was tied to the other.</p><p>Instead they told you and made you believe it was a beautiful thing.</p><p>All day, everyday.</p><p>If it’s so selfless why does it ask for so much of you?</p><p>If it’s so pure why does it fade?</p><p>If it’s unconditional why do people in love fall out and their relationship end?</p><p>If you ask me it’s just another social construct.</p><p>Because tell me why the greatest proof of love had to be how much you’re willing to endure all in the sake of it?</p><p>If love isn’t possesive why does jealousy exist?</p><p>Come to think of it is jealousy really an insecurity or an evidence of love?</p><p>Was the problem really love itself or its unhealthy attachments?</p><p>Why was everyone expected to fall in love?</p><p>When you think about love a song comes to you.</p><p>“I Love You “, by Amma.</p><p>It’s about a girl lost in love.</p><p>Emotionally tied to someone who may never choose her.</p><p>It’s in contrast with your thoughts.</p><p>And it also raised a lot of questions.</p><p>“Believing we can happen is the only hope that I hold on to”</p><p>Why should hope be the only thing keeping you?</p><p>“You make me change my ways in ways that I don’t want to”</p><p>Why are you calling that love wasn’t that losing yourself?</p><p>Why was becoming less of yourself proof of loving someone more?</p><p>So you tell me why should I willingly choose that.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p>

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