With respect to romance, common perception dictates that one has to feign dislike or indifference in order to attract the object of his or her desire. At best, this comes off as some kind of inherent acceptance of reverse psychology. At worst, it’s an exercise in unnecessary complication. It’s true that when it comes to love—or most things—human beings are complex, often nonsensical animals. Yet this complexity has given way to the invention of so many things in order to simplify life. Everyday you wake up to a new product created to minimize the amount of energy spent on daily activities. The fact that we are able to put food in a microwave and have it cooked in a matter of minutes or we can send someone in China a bucket of roses with a click indicates the extent to which human beings have gone in order to make life simple.
When it comes to love, it is a whole different story. For centuries, philosophers, poets, and great minds have pondered on the subject only to reach one common denominator— which is pretty obvious to all of us: love is a complicated thing. Despite the extensive analyses, no one has been able to simplify this feeling and make it less emotionally exhausting. So you ask yourself, how is it that you can manage your bank accounts thousands of miles away from the actual bank yet find it impossible to hold a relationship for a month? Could it be that we have spent all our energy simplifying other things to avoid having to find a way to simplify the complexity of love? Or is it that because we have spent so much time creating all these gadgets we have forgotten to spend time trying to find a simple way to handle love?
