People say that being in love is the most exhilarating, the scariest, the most wonderful, fulfilling and the most intense feeling in the world - all at once.
Pop culture influenced, all of us(couples) do the exact same stuff -
- Sign up for the couple selfie - the essential social media post-processed, post-filtered, air-brushed display picture, which is upgraded every few weeks to a new version with one of the following matching expressions (duck-face/ wildly-happy-face/ fake-sad-face/ mock-cool-face), and some part of an awkward outstretched arm. This is coupled with frequently navigating to your own profile and opening up the pictures to assure yourself that you do look like the cutest couple.
- Get creative with nicknames - calling each other "stupid fluffy honey bunny" complete with virtual emojis, brimming with pride that you have thought of the cutest, most unique nicknames
- Become twinsies - People ask you simple questions, all your answers begin with "we". "Oh what did 'I' do last weekend? Oh 'we' just had to go get some art supplies." And you really do feel isolated if you get separated at a party or are not sitting next to each other at dinner at a restaurant.
- Bring on the PDA - Find yourself having to do boring chores? Then find that your have to park a block away from the store you intend to go to? Is this annoying ? Hell no ! Now you have the perfect excuse to hold hands, walk arm in arm, briefly hug, giggle, walk along cuddled together, a quick peck, more giggling. Nothing is plain boring anymore.
- The serious stuff - You share dreams, passions and ambitions. You challenge and stimulate each other intellectually. You work through your problems together and you know that you would call no one else if you - accidentally killed someone/ had a bad work meeting/ had enough of a whiney sibling/ found out your email inbox was locked forever/ took an unusually gigantic dump that morning.
All couples do all the same things, act the same way, and probably feel the EXACT SAME way.
When a relationship-newbie gushes about how special their significant other makes them feel and how happy, satisfied and lucky they feel, it sounds corny because it is literally the EXACT SAME feeling that every other person in the room has experienced/is experiencing.
To me, love feels very similar to the feeling you get at a restaurant when you see the waiter coming with your food - sheer joy ! But I find it sounds derivative and made-up when I try to talk about it !
