I’m sitting at a table in a restaurant, watching the lake and its quiet beauty. In front of me stretches an idyllic view, but what catches my attention more is the couple at the next table. Both are absorbed in their phones. They have each other, they have time to spend together, yet instead of enjoying each other’s presence, they’re scrolling through social media. Modern times.
Love, and the presence of a partner, seem to have lost their value. Where are the days when people wrote letters, waited months for a reply, and kept photos like treasures, just to remember the face of someone they loved? They believed, they waited, and they loved with an intensity this era no longer knows. Two people were enough. They were each other’s whole world.
Today, it’s enough for a partner to leave for a few days – and the other is already looking for a better option. I admit, I’m tired of hollow relationships where values fade away. How did we allow the beautiful to vanish? We’ve created a world where you can find a soulmate on the other side of the planet – but fail to notice the one sitting right in front of you.
Instead of conversations, we stare at screens. Instead of tenderness, we scroll through profiles, filled with more filters than truth. And then we wonder why we can’t love character. Why we chase only appearances.
And yet it takes so little. Put down the phone. Step outside. Talk. Be. Because this world – the real one – is still full of beauty. We’ve just forgotten how to see it.