Digital Dating

We're expected to have someone.  Dating sites, social networking, online forums; we're all obligated to have a significant other.

We have apps designed to pair together people just of appearance alone.

These apps throw us together, and we chat once.

Well, we don't hate each other, and there is a physical attraction.

Dating begins.

Facebook official.

Selfies making out.

Constant communication.

Posting of how they are meant to be.

Seeing the happiness of everyone.

Expecting perfection.

Expecting to give up everyone else for the sake of a one week old "serious" relationship.

Talking to friends leads to jealous fits.

Not instantly replying creates paranoia.

Personality clashes because you never took the time to see how you meshed.

Thinking you're doomed, because you only see the good in everyone else's lives.

I hate what relationships have turned into at this point.  We go from a friend request online, to engaged, to hateful separation in a month's time.

Somehow, having the world at our fingertips caused us to forget that we can search for people.  We can always think that there is something better, and throw away what we have.  That we can hunt after people for looks alone, because physical attraction is the most important thing.

We're not taught to get to know people.  To build a strong relationship based on emotional and personal attraction.  We forget that we're all human, and when we share our lives, everything won't always go smoothly.

We're not taught that a good, happy, and healthy relationship takes work from everyone involved, and if not taken care of, has a short shelf life.  That a relationship is simply an addition to our lives, and we should not change who we are, or take away from our lives for someone else.

The world has forgotten a lot for the sake of convenience.  Fuck convenience.  Find someone worth the work, and someone you're proud to work for.