010101010101010 & love

I am not in love, never was, nor have any prospects in the near future. Not many whirlwind affairs going on in my proximity, I can swear by that interdimensional portal that opens up and swallows every girl I give a second look at. I am as romantic as the cavitations of a German u-boat, guess all that qualifies me as ‘critic’ of this subject. If you are wondering why bother, here is why. I recently got dumped by my virtual girlfriend on GTA San Andreas because I prefer ‘taking out’ gangsters to taking her out. So just to make my life more difficult I decided to understand this overrated phenomenon. Since supercritter has an acute shortage of grey matter, I delegated this job (should he choose to accept it) to an alter ego.
Enter the perspicacious sobercritter.
I started by trying to find a definition, one that is not commonplace nor is a proprietary license of bollywood. I was aided by the insightful words of agent Smith. According to him only the human brain can come up with something as absurd as love, that it is a mere construct of the human mind trying to justify its own existence. My endeavor returned an abundance of definitions in all the splendour of unconventionality. But the 'why' is more important than 'what'. The existence of the strangest of things is justified by a purpose. Some say that it is the cure for the guilt of promiscuous sex, also that love always comes before sex. So love is foreplay? A certain conspiracy theory says that love is a social mandate created by scheming adults trying to control their little worlds; they figured sex wasn’t a decent act but can’t get rid of it due to obvious survival issues and besides, its way too much fun. So love is a cover? It may seem that love is all about physical needs. So get a hooker. It’s cheaper, no strings attached, they exhibit more dedication and its skilled labour. Some people see love as the journey from ogling to orgy, others mean business. They check out, take out, make out and get out. The real slick ones have it easier, they crash, bang and scram. But if the physical urge is the reason then love is not a necessity. As the Anorexic Atheist points out - where there is a hand there is a way.

So is the need emotional? Every one wants to be loved, to be cared about and that special someone will be there for you always. Maybe I should have typed that sentence in pink, maybe not. But why should that person be special? They can’t probably be as special as parents, who stood by you through your journey from nothing to nobody. So is it about having a deep understanding of each other, to complement and complete each other? How can two rights make a wrong? Yeah right.
Let me cite myself as an example. I am a metal head. My choice of movies span from the intricate to the gory. My humour is as twisted as our bureaucracy. Gamer at heart, infant by brain and out of my mind. What are the chances that there exists a girl for me and she is an organic life form. Maybe love is all about listening to each other, to pay attention to that person, savouring the said, and craving for the unsaid. When lips move, eyes meet and thoughts drift. Kind of difficult considering we never listened to anyone and anything till then in life, not to parents, lectures, rational, advice, wise men, emergency announcements, pop music, news etc. Wiseman says love is about sharing. Love is the coming together of two persons; it’s the merging of body, soul, movable and immovable and they say-“what we have will share the unison, in which we are, BUT this will contradict every concept of privacy, individuality and that ‘trespassers will be decapitated’ sign hanging outside my room. So what? Insanity lost its freshness since we fell in love”.

Love doesn’t complete the quintessential movie formula, it takes a stellar climax and maybe a guest appearance too. So my last question went out to the pink unicorn. I asked “why is love such a magical feeling? Why do the eyes see pink and heart flutter? Why does the face beam and lips quiver? Why does one dream and smile for no reason? Rain or shine why does he feel like spring season?
Pink unicorn replied “that’s cuz love has got some major hormonal backup”

As I conclude, I have no answers and I won’t bother asking anymore questions. Explanations and directions are not to be expected of me, for I am a blind visionary.

P.S. - The reason for a binary title? Two:
0: Dedication to people who think they are ‘the ones’ but are actually zeroes.
1: My wish that the world was as simple as that.