Journal: Hard Times for Romanticism

There's no doubt that through the history of human beings, filosophers, artists and cientists have tried to discover what love is, where it is, how does it work and why it is so hard to find it once and for ever. Although love is the most outstanding human creation, its presence in reality is limited. An, as a result of this, men and women cross in their ways over and over again meeting and separating in a sort of broken hearts' waltz.
Love was supposed to be the strongest force. The one that coulnd not be defeated by anything. But nowadays there's an exception for this rule. Love can cope with everything except with the actual reality. In order to be just like everything else in the actual times, there's a new version of love, also marked by the necessity of easy succes and without too much tolerance to frustrations. And this is the consequence of people's intend to hide and bottle up the fears that prevent them from relating one to each other.
The fear of rejection, of the loss of liberties, of unfaithfulness and betrayal among others, ended up to prepare people to separate because of any little inconvenient situation. The high rate of divorces shown by our present societies clearly demostrate the generalization of the lack of confidence with which we relate to ourselves and to the others.
We seem to have forgot what love really is: a commitment between two peolple who are together because of pasion, partnership and patience, without any guarantee of succes but with the hope left by having common projects and the possibiliy of an entire life together. This concept of love, known by the most ancient romantic traditions appears to be at the point of extinction nowadays.
The promises of eternal love, the pacts, the impulsive reactions as well as the simplest things such as a bunch of roses or a poem have moved down the stairs until ending up at the bottom of any lover priorities. Actual love is full of fears and useless reasoning. But we are not paying attention to what our new kind of loving is asking for. It needs an urgent returning back to
the romantic roots of it. And this is he task of the new generations. To re invent and re design love and the human relationships, and the codes that flow from attraction. In this way a new meening of love will arise, which is new but old in fact, and the basic magic of it would be its escence again.