The Internet has been the world's best blessing and its worst curse. It has brought a fast-paced information tsunami culture into the lives of developed countries. Unfathomable amounts of data rest at anyone's fingertips at any time. Anything is easily searched, learned, and discarded in a matter of seconds. What this has done to relationships, however, leans in the negative direction. While information becomes increasingly closer and more readily available, real life human interaction becomes more distant and easily disposed of.
What the Internet has taught humanity transfers into life outside of the Internet. Where people find it relatively easy to follow and unfollow, subscribe and unsubscribe, they find it equally as easy to cut off relationships without considering the repercussions. Good relationships work through good times and tough times. The internet, however, has taught the world that anything and everything can be brought up and closed out of in an incredibly short amount of time including relationships.
The Internet has also made a way for a culture defined by easy insults and no backlash. Behind a keyboard, it is considerably easier to throw an insult at someone and forget about it without dealing with the aftermath than it is to do in real life. As Internet insulters get more comfortable doing this behind the keyboard it becomes easier for them to do it in person without considering, or even recognizing, the effects.
Internet culture has caused developed country's societies to become number to decisions' effects now more than ever. It is imperative that the societies that live in the world that the internet has created remember a couple things about love:
Learning How To Love Even When Its Hard
One of the most important things about building and fostering relationships is learning how to love people even when it's hard. The way that the Internet works has given way to leaving seemingly hard relationships at the curb and not thinking twice about it. Ending a relationship just because two people disagree on something or a problem comes up is immature. Mature and true love will endure through the "hard" times.
Remembering True Love
This generation needs to relearn what love means. The false love that has been promoted by Hollywood and reality TV shows shades the truth on love. Love isn't glossy. Love grows and love hurts. Problems aren't opportunities to end things but opportunities for growth through love. Love can be glamorous, yes, but the glory of love will never be able to shine without sorting through the mess of real love. It's just like a diamond. Lots of pressure and heat has to be applied to carbon before it can become a beautiful diamond. This generation can't be afraid of pressure and heat in their relationships, instead, they should welcome those things as pivotal points for development. Only then will they be able to enjoy the fruits of true love.
Leave the things of the internet for the internet and remember what love has slowly taught humanity through history, experience, and intuition;
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
