Sunday, November 14, 2010

Have we become too advanced and fickle for regular love?

As we get older, paired with the innovation in technology and all the social interactions, are we making the natural progression of attraction, love, and commitment nearly impossible? 

We have dating websites, networking websites, text messages and yet.....we struggle perhaps more so than ever?  When we were in college, and started dating someone, it would easily progress to "boyfriend" status.  We'd buy our boyfriend a lame birthday gift, perhaps they'd meet our parents and we'd intermingle with each other's friends.  It was clear cut until the day someone fell out of "love", cheated, moved or your bickering got to be too much.  Now it seems that its easy enough to meet a lot of qualified applicants, but very hard for things to get to that relationship status.  Why?  Is it because we have too many options?  Are we like a modern kid in a candy store where everything is free and beaming with light and sugary goodness?  Maybe just maybe, all these options and all of these facilitation mechanisms force some universal confusion upon us.  Perhaps we know we can juggle 5 guys, and maybe meet the man of our dreams in a week and yet still keep that cute fling on the hook with a text message or two so we fail to really evaluate a person and move forward with them with an open heart?  

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