Digital love

Nita flipped through the pages of his husband's diary reminiscing the yesteryears, a time when he used to express his love to her in more than three words. These are the thoughts of a woman who wants to be wooed, courted, and pampered again. She longs for intimacy and love. The same can be said for many unhappy couples these days. And the thing which all these people have in common is the too much dependency on the tech stuff of today.

  In this tech world, where nowadays nothing is impossible, it may be delayed for a few years, but eventually what you imagine today becomes a reality tomorrow. Here, love can be expressed in many ways from emoticons to text messaging, from sharing pictures with love messages to audios with songs for the loved ones. Expressing love has never been easier, just at a few clicks or taps on the phone will do it for you. But if you look carefully, this form of love is shallow, lacks warmth and it doesn't have the same long-lasting effect as love had for the previous generation. Sometimes I feel that we don’t give them the credit they deserve. They really are heroes and we should respect them for that. Not only did they educate themselves without the Internet; they also expressed their love for someone in an old-fashioned way, with love letters, bouquets, chivalry. I can say it must not have been easy for them back then also, but they still mustered up the courage to ask the man/woman of their dreams out on a real date in person. Today, how many could do that, asking someone out for a date in person is a tiny bit different from asking someone on the Internet. Even a right swipe on an app could bring two people together, but this love is based more on what you see and not on what you feel. With the rapid advancement the world changed from analog to digital and in this transition, love changed too.

I am not against the tech-savvy generation, but this over-dependency is ruining the beautiful art of courtship and wooing. Life has become a digital platform, and love and emotions nothing more than a digital signal. The internet is turning us all into emotional hypocrites, we fake smileys to hide our true emotions and reply with cute little messages even if we may not feel that way during that moment. Today, mobile acts as a medium to convert our feelings into digital signals but as it's impossible to convert from one form to another without suffering any losses, and in this case, feelings are somewhere getting lost, little by little, with every tap on your mobile screen, with every press of a key on your laptop, and with every click.