Love is in the air

The season of summer has always been associated with the blossoming of fruitful relationships. Summer is the season of romance, a time when spirits shine, passions heat up, and love permeates the air. As seen in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the adventures of four Athenian lovers bear fruit as they consummate their love at the end of the play, amid a lush forest in the midst of a warm summer night.

However the heart is a fickle thing. As the days get darker, passions cool, the feet gets colder, and the heart freezes over. As winter arrives, the winds of change have blown away the warm sails of a summer romance, until all that's left is the cold, barren, lifeless landscape of a relationship solstice. As Taylor Swift has so beautifully put: "and then the cold came, the dark days when fear crept in to my mind. You gave me all your love, and all i gave you was goodbye".

Yet the winter of 2011 appears to be different. Love is in the air. Everywhere i look around. Love is in the air. Every sight and every sound. And I don't know if im being foolish. Don't know if im being wise in saying this...BUT IS IT JUST ME OR IS EVERYONE FUCKING GETTING TOGETHER??!

Like wow, so many couples forming over this winter season, and more appears to be on the precipice of doing so. No need to name names, they know who they are.

All of a sudden i feel so JI. And what started off as a cute innocent nickname (i hope) is now threatening to become my reality. They say that if you're miserable single, you'll be miserable in a relationship; while it is true that i don't need to find a significant other to achieve self-fulfillment, MAN is it going to be awkward hanging out with the group when everyone else is holding hands. I thought the cold is meant to deter people from each other, but it seems to have only served to drive individuals closer together in their search for the comfort and warmth of another human soul.

I should be feeling happy for them. I guess I do, that fleeting moment of happiness when you first find out. But then you start to despair, as you think about the state of your own life (yes im quoting HIMYM, so what?). Despite all this, i remain optimistic, because i know that my aequus, my nox in shining armour,  is getting here as fast as her noble steed will take her, to save me from this winter solstice and deliver me to equinox.
And I don't know if I'm just dreaming . Don't know if I feel sane. But it's something that I must believe in.

Love is in the air.