The Love Competition
Love, a feeling so complicated yet so simple. Love has existed since Adam and Eve and still exists at our very time. But the meaning of Love the acts of love has drastically changed even in the last decade let alone in the whole of existence. And even though the examples of acts of love in different times give doesn’t apply to every lover of that time I’m sure it will cover a large percentage.
Firstly the 1900s the typical form of showing your love to someone was with heartfelt letters, poems and such. This way if showing your passion was a warm and thoughtful act. And took thought and work towards it.
Then when we move on to 1930s more due to the economic instability post war with the great depression people opted for homemade gifts, picnics, dances and moreover consisted of sentimental gifts and experiences.
When we skip 20 years and look into the 1950s that’s when we see more typical gender roles. In that time men were the providers while the women showed their love and futile their responsibility by cleaning, cooking, and looking after the children. And the men showed it by financially contributing to his family.
If we skip to the 80s, we see a drastic change. In the 80s those gender-typical roles started to change. Love was bolder and more expressed. It was around that time where making tapes and love notes were the most common ways of showing your love towards someone.
When we skip to a new century the big 2000, we see that technology was on the rise as it still was new small texts to check up were commonly sent opposed to the hours lasting calls nowadays. Also, in that time burning CDs, scrap books, collages were the thing especially with the younger generation.
Then when we come to modern day dating, we see that it’s always a race and moreover a race on bragging in social media. Today it’s more like whose boyfriend got a bigger bouquet, whose boyfriend got a newer phone, whose new Instagram post with their significant other got more likes. Love has more morphed into a competition then a feeling. And automatically long-term love has been a rare occurrence within our generation as most people move onto who has more money than who has more feelings.
To conclude the form of expressing one’s feelings has changed drastically over the years and will continue to change even more but the most needed thing of the couples of our timetable realise is that love isn’t a race where the person with the most wins it’s about who treats who the best.