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Romance Doesn’t Mean…. “Swipe Right”!

  • Erica Lynn Lacombe
  • Jan 5, 2015
  • 3 min read

.Love isn’t always about fireworks, magic and fairy dust, its about who holds your heart the closest when the reality of life takes over. How do we find our Romeo or Juliet in a world full of options? Social media has given more false egos and wrecked more relationships then any town harlot ever could. Its like a kid in a candy store. Apps, apps and more apps catering to a smorgasbord of options at our very finger tips. When we are surrounded by stroked esteems at every turn full of firecrackers masquerading as the illusion of fireworks, who wants to commit? Commitment means we have to be vulnerable, that we have to be able to see the bad and the good in one unique unwrapped un-sugar coated arrangement. Not always pretty. So again, when we can go on date after date and talk to prospect after prospect reliving the tingles of a new budding kinship; at what point do we trade that in for apartment hunting and family dinners? Easy, when we step outside of our false facade and decide that we deserve something deeper, something with true value and meaning and not a fake smiled aperture to add to your social media falsitude. There will always be obstacles: geography, people who add opinions contrary to those that your heart manifests on its own, monetary hiccups, outside distractions, … to name a few. Not everyone will see what you do, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t real or in turn shouldn’t be. That’s part of growing up, making your own decisions and understanding your own best interest beyond other influences. So do you go along and conform to keep the peace or do you take a stand and start living your own life before your own person life clock expires? Society needs a reality check in the form of an enormous slap across the face. Social media, dating sites, tinder; none of it is real. When you close your eyes at night, the person you long to be wrapped in your arms, the one who wipes your tears, cares for your unfiltered, unannounced, Facebook real-time material crap; that’s whats real. Here’s the catch. Get up, get out of your own way, delete the apps that create temptation, and actually live in the real world for a change. Make a life that you can touch with your hands and not one that is mitigated by a swipe of one of five digits attached to your palm. Or one that remains a digital view stuck in the cyber realm. When you are old and gray would you want your instant replay on the past years of your life to be a bunch of first dates and pixelated never-will-be’s, or would you like to look to your right and see what true love feels like; to hold not only your hand but your heart as well? If you truly are or wish to be a hopeless romantic, romance doesn’t exist without the occasional fowl stench of ones individual garbage…. that’s life… potpourri not included! The key is not the person who brings a stress free existence to your life, it’s the one that makes the stress you are already experiencing; more bearable. Someone you take the journey with, not someone to add once you figured out all the in and outs of where that journey is going. By then, months and years past back into an online unrealistic fantasy world instead of remaining in the true waking one we actually are surrounded in. Your life, Your Choice. Live for whats real, or continue to “swipe right”.

 
 
 

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