Every day countless couples break things off for vague reasons they don't care to explain. Why is this happening? Why do we try so hard to love only to fail?
We're not prepared for the fluctuating emotions, the endless compromises, and the idea of unconditional love. We go into relationships thinking things will be easy because that's what we want. We want easy, and when things aren't easy, we quit. We reach one fight, one obstacle, one problem and just let everything go. We don't give the love time to grow. We don't put up the fight that love is worth.
We want excitement, which is entirely understandable. What we don't realize is that love can't always be exciting. There will be deep silences and serious talks, but we aren't prepared for those. All we want is the excitement and when that fades, we give up.
We are busy people who don't take enough time out of our crazy lives to love. We chase our materialistic dreams without first realizing that we are going to need someone by our side when we don't succeed.
We don't have patience. We want instant gratification. True love and a mature relationship take time. We don't want to give our time to develop a true emotional connection, to truly get to know someone.
Technology is a great thing, but it has started to bring us too close. We have replaced physically being with someone with texts, snapchats, and video calls. There is no need to spend time with people anymore. Social media and cellphones have left us with nothing to talk about.
Many of us are commitment phobic. We afraid to settle down, afraid we are going to miss out on something bigger or better. We hate the idea of permanence. We don't want to conform to what is "normal". We like to believe that we are different than everyone else.
We've become too sensible for our own good. We are a generation who runs on logic. We don't know how to be madly in love, to drop everything to see someone. Long distance scares us.
We don't value relationships anymore. We don't consider the relationships or even the people to be sacred anymore.
We can conquer anything in this world- except for love apparently.
