LJ Idol Season Ten: "Love 4 You"

[halfshellvenus]

Love 4 You
idol season ten | week five | 725 words
Fear is the heart of love

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Will you ever find love, or are you doomed to die alone?

As marketing slogans go, it's a little harsh, but that's our motto. You want love? We're Love4You, and we're here to help you find it

Comments

[xo_kizzy_xo]

Oh, I LOVE this. Your tone is so matter-of-fact that it makes the reader sit up and pay attention. And what you said, of course, is true ;)

I love the little colliquialisms like "snow on the roof" too.

I keep thinking how much the media shapes who we think we should pick for a partner. An old store manager of mine once said that making mistakes, then realizing that, is the whole point of young adulthood, and many people never outgrow it.

[halfshellvenus]

So glad you enjoyed this!

As a society, we get so obsessed over the "image" of what's attractive, and we miss so many of the really important characteristics that actually matter. It's a form of victory any time two people really see the whole picture of one another and realize that is very much something they want to be part of!

For almost all of dating, any relationship you have will eventually fail until you find the one that doesn't. But that is also how you learn, how you develop your ability to love and to recognize it in other people, how you grow more able to have that final big thing.

A guy at my office was all peeved about having spend 7 years with a boyfriend he finally broke up with. He was maybe 26 or 27, and my thought was seven years at that age? To me, that was a very good sign of his ability to be involved in a meaningful, long-term relationship. He was way ahead of the game already, in a way we don't typically recognize or measure. But really? We should!

[adoptedwriter]

So much truth in this. Interesting way to use the prompt too!

[halfshellvenus]

I could easily see the "afraid to lose what you love" aspect to the prompt, and a few other choices that amounted to loving out of fear, which didn't really appeal and I mostly don't believe in.

But turning that idea into loving out of fear of being alone led me to this idea, and that was something I could get behind!

[i_17bingo]

A company that exists to manage expectations? It'll never survive.

[halfshellvenus]

:D I see it more as reshaping your filter rather than managing expectations. The expectation isn't necessarily different, but what might fulfill it could be so much broader.

As for the other, well, I'd say it's worked for a lot of religions over the years, and they're still around. :D

[marlawentmad]

There so many good sentiments here. I love the tone.

[halfshellvenus]

Thank you! There's so much more to people than just the obvious surface, and sometimes I think that romantically, we're getting farther and farther away from seeing that.

[favoritebean]

This is fantastic! I love how you've written this.

[halfshellvenus]

Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. :)