The whole concept of "love at first sight" is completely foreign to me. Well, I guess that would be a lie to some degree now that I think about it. I have found myself falling in love with several shallow material objects throughout my life. I have personally fallen in love with cars, drums, guitars, foods, coffee mugs, shirts, this tablet that I'm writing this post on and other such things. I see some of these objects and suddenly I can see myself spending the rest of my life with them. An example would be that I almost bought a gun a couple of months ago based on love at first sight. There I was, a man and a deadly firearm, deadlocked in a gaze. I knew it was wrong. I knew I couldn't afford it. But it felt so right. I had some money saved away. I could have it, right? Sure I could. Times would be tough at first but we would work it out. We'd still go out to the desert when we could to go shooting. I'd keep it clean and make sure it was properly lubed at all times. There would never be a day of regret for me and my shotgun. Our love would be like rain.
Aside from those beautiful love stories, I have never understood love at first sight between two [real] people. I'm not going to say the concept is impossible. Just highly improbable. For the record, I don't claim to be an expert on love in any way. I'm about as loveable as a whiskey soaked baseball glove left out in the sun of an abandoned town. I'm hard and crusty and probably have a family of rats living in me somewhere. Plus I love a very select few people. So needless to say, my expertise based on experience is sorely lacking. But looking at the concept of "love at first sight" from a purely objective and logical standpoint has given me some insight. And that insight tells me that it doesn't make any fucking sense.
Love at first sight is a nice concept from the outside. It completely eliminates the uncertainty of dating, getting to know one another, or if the person is right for you based on similar interest. There is no guessing with this concept. All of that work is done for you. You don't have to worry if they won't like your sense of humor, your parents, or your utterly disgusting habits (and believe me, all of you sloppy assholes have plenty of disgusting habits). All of that uncertainty has been taken care of because you saw that person and just knew all of that was a nonfactor. To cap it off, the person you're falling in love with at first sight is probably pleasing to your eyeballs. Yeah, they are probably really good looking. They are great to look it. It feels good to look at them and be near them because they aren't offending any of your five senses. You'll be hard pressed to find a chick-flick where the love at first sight concept works with an attractive person falling in love with someone who looks utterly disgusting. You might be tempted to bring up the movie Shallow Hal but you'd be incorrect for doing so since Jack Black isn't a heart throb and he was metaphorically falling in love with her personality. Not the same. As superficial as it may seem, looks matter to some degree. In fact, studies show that people who fall in love tend to fall in love with someone who is of about the same level of attractiveness as they are. Which makes sense. Ugly people tend to date ugly people. The slobby homeless guy isn't pulling in supermodel material. Probably not even middle class average material. That homeless guy is going to be with some other toothless homeless chick most likely. Anyway, that's neither here nor there. The point is, if love at first sight were a thing, it probably wouldn't discriminate on looks. You would have an innate ability to detect personality as well. But since that isn't the case, you probably just fell in love with how attractive they were to you.
Now the people who have love at first sight stories are the lower end of probability. Like I said, it's not impossible but improbable. It does happen, just not often and on complete luck. You just happen to fall in love with someone who also believes in the concept who in turn falls in love with you. It's just not likely. It happens. But it's coincidence, not cosmic fate since the universe doesn't give a shit one way or the other if you're together or not. Planets still rotate, stars still explode, and Michael Bay keeps making bad movies. The world and the universe gets along just fine whether or not you're together. It just happens that of all the billions of people, you happened to fall in love with someone who believes in the same concept within your zip code most likely. Don't confuse that statement with "It's fate" or "That makes it more special." It just seems to me that people who believe in that concept are more apt to wanting to believing that because it takes out all the guesswork and potential heartache. If you sift through it long enough, you find someone who believes the same. It's easy to let fate take the wheel because you don't have to do any work if the concept works for you.
Conversely, those same assholes don't get to complain that they can't find anyone nice or anyone they can instantly fall in love with. If they don't want to put in the work to getting to know someone because of fear or laziness and just want to wait for it to be love at first sight, then strap in.
It's going to be a long wait for you.
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