When the whirlwind called Valentine’s Day arrives, it’s easy to get caught in the moment and exclaim that love is in the air. With red and white confetti’s littering the streets to romantic hoardings and commercials the only thing that’s left is little Cupids with their bows and arrows, trumpeting and heralding ‘Behold! The season of love is here’. The magic of the season is such that you are transported to a fantastical land imagining yourself as a leading lady or man in a romantic movie and all that’s missing is a handsome stranger with whom you fall in love at first sight. However, when reality crashes, love, at first sight, seems a fiction that you may have heard from your grandparents or parents or witnessed in sappy and cliché romantic movies. However, this phenomenon of love, at first sight, remains a burning issue whether you are a hardcore romantic or cynic and needs to be contested on how close does it comes to true love.
What is love at first sight?
Almost everybody knows what love at first glance but it doesn’t hurt to brush up your memory. If you are one of those people who has experienced it then you may know the feeling where you look at a person and know that he/she is ‘the one’. It could be their beautiful face that captured your interest or their sunshine smile that stopped you in your tracks or an unexpected gesture that caught you unaware or the butterflies in your stomach that say ‘You had me at hello’. If you have experienced any of these things then you, my friend have been a fortunate victim of ‘love at first sight’ which catches its victim unaware and when they least expect it. If you happen to experience any of these symptoms it’s better to act on those feelings with special Valentine gifts, as this day gives you the perfect excuse to have your chance at true love. However, if you haven’t experienced this or think of it as something which only happens in fairytale then think again because it happens more often than not, to just maybe make you believe in love at first sight.
Does love at first sight still exists?
You may be skeptical of this phenomenon but love at first glance is actually more than just a phenomenon, as this is how dating apps like Tinder and Bumble operate. It’s true that a person’s name and credentials are viable options you look for in a possible date but your instinctual reaction will be to look up a person’s picture and only then look up their bios; this is where first impression counts and we unwillingly judge a book by its cover. You may not even realize it but love at first glance is indirectly one of the strategies with which these dating apps operate.
