The Study of Leah in Her Quest for Love
By Asha Tamang and Khen Lim
Image source: loveiseverywhere.tiffany.com
Love is
everywhere
There is this website
that goes by the web address http://loveiseverywhere.tiffany.com.
Click on it and it’ll take you straight to a very simple but catchy front
home page. You needn’t have to go any farther or deeper. Right there, you’ll
see a Google Map that has numerous love icons scattered right across the
topology.
As the web address
suggests, love is really everywhere you look. On the map alone, it’s almost
countless. And if you start to believe it, you’ll be convinced that at every
block and every corner of every street, you’ll find love. Cross the Harlem
River to the east, and there’s more love there. Get across Central Park on the
west and love is for the taking. Right at the heart of the Museum of Modern Art
(MoMA), love might just be that someone standing right behind you.
Wherever we go today,
everyone is convinced love is everywhere. We’re also told that everyone is out wide-eye
looking for love in every nook and corner. True love, that is. And the
operative word is ‘true.’ Hollywood likes us to believe that the world can
‘give’ them love but there’re a lot of conditions attached to it.
Notwithstanding being in the right place at the right time, Hollywood tells us
dreamers that social status means everything, wearing the right bling is
everything and living a glamourous life is more than everything. It doesn’t
matter if you cannot afford it – just live the moment and make pretend in a
Cinderella world, except you hope it doesn’t strike midnight before you find
your beau.
So what’s wrong with
that picture? More importantly, what is so right about it? Here’s what’s so
wrong (using American statistics by McKinley
Irvin, family law attorneys):
