Unfortunately, love has become something to be negotiated, packaged, and charged. Lovers have turned into partners — they meet, discuss logistics, solve problems, and make decisions. Love, once wild and transcendent, is now a bio-psycho-socio-economic arrangement, a strategic alliance dressed in the language of business.

The passion that was meant to be excessive, uncontrollable, and fiercely cohesive has been diluted — reduced to fleeting emotions, fickle affections, and shallow connections. Everything is disposable, convenient, and fast — even sex. And so, instead of truly falling in love, people now hover on the edge of it. They’re “almost” in love. Their feelings lie dormant, numbed, missing that vital spark — the kind that makes us feel alive, that ignites joy, that burns from the inside out.

What happened to blind love? Foolish love? That one true love that makes us dance, hum, go mad with delight? The kind that inspires noble gestures — or outrageous ones. That dares us to leap, to risk, to give, to transform. The kind of love that makes us better. That makes us believe we can change the world. ❤

©️ Beatriz Esmer