Valentine's Day

Is Love truly overrated these days? How many of us say ‘I love you’ and really mean it?

During this time of the year at Valentine’s Day, there will be many couples holding hands with bouquets of flowers from their loved ones, strolling down the beach or the street, gazing at each other’s eyes, thinking that they have found their perfect guy or girl. However, once their honeymoon period or their romantic gestures start to slowly fade, they will find that their love for each other wills also fade with due time.

Love has become temporary instead of long-lasting. They is no such thing as true love or ‘love and cherish you till the end of my life’ vows that they take during marriage. I am a cynic and skeptic of true love. Is there true Love? Do we really believe that there is someone somewhere waiting for us to be loved? In this modern past-paced lifestyle that we live in, it is hard to find love that is long-lasting, couples who are still happily married after 20, 30 years and beyond. Heck, it is even hard to find couples who are married for more than 5 years.

Nowadays, divorce has become the norm for the society and the number of divorces have been spiking like crazy. Look at celebrities’ lifestyle; they have made divorce a fashion statement. It has become a norm when someone has been married and divorce for a few times. Also, co-habiting has become the norm between couples who refused to commit their love legally. And same sex couples who want to commit their love, it is illegal to get married. Has the sanctity of Marriage becomes eroded that some couples divorce after their vows and some couples can’t get married due to gender issues. Is it wrong and cynical to say that Love doesn’t exist?