So I needed to re-visit the matter of
online dating . With a nation so
consumed by online shopping and finding anything one desires on the world wide
web, is it any wonder that that spills over into finding “love” over the
internet?
We look for cars, we buy stocks and shares,
we find outfits and in the same breath, we shop for our partner. We choose height, colour, ethnicity, career,
not unlike shopping for a sweater no less..
The other quite disturbing reality is, if we don’t like what we get, we
can trade them in or just return the “item”.
Is it any surprise the divorce rate is as
high as it is? Once you have “outgrown”
one marriage, go on-line and pick another potential partner!
The online dating affair saddens me. Texting and not talking is disheartening,. Emailing and not writing letters, a myth to
the new generations. In this age of
email, fax, instant messaging, nothing can really replace the love letter. Does any one still write love letters? Is the romanticism of the love letter really
dead?
Love does not last in this day and
age. The days when lovers were separated
by great wars yet kept the amour alive through letters is over. Life has been overtaken by technology and
romance and trying has taken a back seat and thus resorting to online
dating.
I can’t help but wish we lived in the time
of the greats after reading great love letters…. Horatio Nelson to Emma
Hamilton or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Constanze Mozart, Benjamin Franklin to
Madame Brillion… to name but a few.
I can’t help but feel that in the year
2013, people are less romantic and more cynical or is it, in years gone by,
people were less self conscious than we are today. They certainly did not hide behind a computer
screen.
In conclusion… and on a tangent to where I
began, we as a society have become more barbarian and have lost faith both in
love itself and in the art of expression.
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