" MOVE OVER CUPID"♡
Stolen kisses are passe. These days love doesn't get in the way of career- or sex; and wooing takes on a whole new meaning.
Has romance got less moony? More pragmatic? What indeed is happening to romance today? Romance used to be all about stolen kisses, and endless anticipation. When the world shrunk itself into just that one other. When each second apart was an eternity to endure. Painful and dampened. When today was all detail and colour and tomorrow just a blur. When that furtive glance or a shared coke said it all, and holding hands was itself an epiphany. Before "love-at-first-sight" began to get nudged aside by "love-after-many-bytes". And the world love itself became suspect.
Each generation laments the passing of romance: yesterday was always better and tomorrow will be even worse. But romance hasn't really gone anywhere: it is only less larger than life and yes, it's changed its wardrobe. And it's vocabulary for the young,urban,up-wardly mobile youth whose electronic windows let in the rest of the world. Here, you no longer fall in love, you have a "relationship".
Kiran tandon of PQR (Probe Qualitative Research) believes that young people are weary of using the romantic language of love. At the first stage they will say,'I am seeing him'. After some degree of commitment, it will be,'I am going out with him'.finally when they imagine they are in love they say,'we have a relationship'.
A long way from the '50s and '60s when you "slipped" for somebody. Or much later when you "fell" for the object of desire. Today, you tend to keep standing. In the age of unisex clothes and the mini,imagination's been given a holiday and longing is not so bitter-sweet.
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Daydream time has been hugely eaten into. You no longer need to sit hugging a pillow a la 1942, A Love Story, and dreamily imagine what she or he is wearing. Just ring up and ask.
Romance may have lost some of its poetry but it's made up with its accessories and props. You don't need a poet-friend like Cyrano de Bergerac to secretly write your love-talk for you. Cards which say " I love you" in a myriad ways do it for you. Romance has become big business: Hallmark India now has 400 varieties in the " I love you" cards and 2000 different valentine's day cards. The sale of love cards has grown by 50% every year.
Romance can literally be plucked out of the air to provide an instant backdrop for you relationship: love songs are tumbling out of the radios,tv screens and movie halls. Radio jockeys have become the middlemen of romance. The dial-in programmes have become a medium of fixing blind dates. Technology is the new cupid: telephones,e-mail and the Internet make diatances less awesome and that yearning which fed love less poignant.
If previous generations wanted trophy wives who would look good on their arms , who knew the right things to say - this generation wants trophy girlfriends and boyfriends who will blend into their social milieu. Lovers who will not slow them down on their way up career and social ladders. Love and romance are still there, but the head's still in there, ruling just as much as the heart. Like a dual steering wheel car.
The pheromones may rage and chemistry be right, but if your boyfriend stands out like a sore thumb, its no good.
Also now a days, there's more sex in the air than love. However ,while sexuality is more upfront, sex is no longer the be-all of a relationship. The earth may still move underneath, but the world turns the same way the morning after.
The blush 'n' glow of love has given way to brush n' glow.♥
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LOVE IN A HICCUP!
RomanceLOVE IS LIKE UNTAMED BEAST , WHO SCRUNCHES HIS PAWS WITH WILL AS STRONG AS A LION , IT GROWLS WHEN TOUCHED IRREVERENTLY , IT SLITHERS WHEN LEFT UNTOUCHED! LOVE IS ANIMALISTIC , YET IT TASTES IRRESISTIBLY SWEET!
