Honelyn Nerice F.

De Guzman X-Blazing Star

Love in the time of Social Media
Some things must not change, like love. Social media may have allowed today’s young people to
connect with ease through online technology, develop relationships, and be confident about
themselves, but it has also come to a point where they realize that what people do online may be
a bit superficial at times. Forever does not exist in the internet. This is because love is a personal
thing.
Nowadays, young couples want the entire world to know how much they love each other. In
contrast, in times past, two people who are so in love only want to be together, away from the
world, and to know that your one true love is the only person you need to be with in order to
survive. You have to walk miles, dream dreams together, you have to experience pain and
despair, and you have to hope that love can last until it's done. No selfie can capture the beauty
of a person. To fall in love is to recognize that someone special is out there.
In seeking the reason to die for others, it is said that love is most felt. But does love have to end
in disaster, really? Maybe love is most deeply felt when you have discovered the only reason that
you have to live. Indeed, in life, you will have only one fear when you are in love. And that is
losing the only person with whom you want to spend eternity. There is true love, but the hardest
thing you need to know about it is that people that are deserving of it sometimes don't. You will
start searching for better things in this world when you get older, or want more changes in almost
everything you see, before you realize that having met another person may just mean finding
another mistake, such as the life you have.
Only what you feel can be posted, not how you feel. People can filter their faces, but not bad
relationships, edit ugly comments. Two decades or so ago, if you did not do it the hard way, it
was difficult to have a deeper acquaintance with the inner person of, for example, the woman of
your life. You've got to be patient about it all. Currently, you've got to buy and give her roses,
chocolates, and all.
It's like this: if it doesn't cause you to do those dumb things again and again on sleepless nights,
then just don't bother. It's not true love.