Modern Day Relationships And The Reason For Their Failure

The old days are gone. No more is love compared to the pure and saintly thing that it is. Instead, relationships have become as dispensable as Kleenex tissues; people use and throw away the relationships after they are done soaking the mess. While this may sound harsh, it can be considered both as a negative and positive thing. The negative aspect of this attitude is understandable but many people find it hard to believe that there is a positive aspect to this as well. This attitude signals a progressive attitude towards the freedom of choice.

There are two types of worlds that we see today in regard to relationships. There is the old world, full of charm and innocence when it comes to romance. Falling in love was a gradual process, people get to know each other over time; they consider each other’s perfections and imperfections, and accept each other anyway. People recognized all that they were and considered each other as a whole rather than all those tiny, annoying things that prevented them from being everything they envisioned in the ideal mate. The two people involved in the relationship evolved right alongside each other and they put in their best efforts to find that key balance of how they could fit into each other’s lives regardless of the circumstances.

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And then comes the new-age relationships which are fast moving swipes in a sea of seemingly eligible options, only to discover that eligibility does not always equal availability. We have gotten used to everything being perfect even if it is just a facade; given the shiny and flawless filters on Instagram and Snapchat. This has created an unusually high expectation for a person for the perfect house, the ideal job and a flawless partner. Sometimes it feels like patience and compromise are archaic concepts, and it’s easy to fall into this trap where everything is awesome, nothing is perfect and very little will suffice.

Many would blame technology and the millennial generation for this change of pace in relationships but everyone else is also at fault. We’re all equally guilty of perpetuating this cycle of dissatisfied contentment. If the goal of evolution as well as medical innovation (through procedures like genetic engineering) is to produce new and improved species, could it be argued that we are biologically programmed to seek this out in a companion as well? The truth is that we tend to take solace in knowing that we haven’t yet settled for mediocrity, because something or someone better may still be out there.