TheTemporaryAttachment : The end of a year.


I think there are certain humans who really give. Just give. And get exploited, for their impeccable quality of understanding and non judgmental grounds. They're approachable. They're the kind of people ecosystems sustain on. 
But you know what comes to notice these days? This consumeristic culture has by now hit most of the aspects in our life, but I think in ways it's starting to bleed into our relationships also. 
We see people as investments, as commodities, as capital to collect, as people to exploit, as fickle interests, as products to pick of shelfs that provide hundreds of options. We pick the ones who seem to look attractive based on all the things we lack, a culmination of the opposite of all our insecurities and hollowness. We pick this human as if it were a product. We fall in love with it, because we believe that it has made us whole, this is what we needed. It fits right with everything that didn't fit before. 
And just like the consumer culture of frivolous interests, we only find this product amusing till it expires or we find a better product. We don't wanna commit, oh hell no. This kind of a relationship is one way in nature, it goes only downwards. Where the person treated as a commodity, a convenience, is tested time and again without any questioning from the other persons point of you. The person becomes so conditioned to be used that it begins to empathize with the consuming individual's-consuming act. It finds it justified. And in 
that process the product loses its own identity and sense of reason. It accepts being consumed. 
Convenience. I see a lot of love, based on convenience today. Something picked off a store, a convenience store. 
And when we're done, when we're confident, comfortable, at luxury we don't need this commodity. But when we are at our low, these people we treat as material interests make us feel good about ourselves. That's the only kind of exchange in this consumer culture of temporary attachments. In some kinds of relationships the consuming works both ways. 
It's a dangerous exchange, a self destruct switch really. 
It burns out just as fast as it ignited. And in the end, when the wax drips off and the fumes fade away, it leaves you with the question, did it mean anything at all to them? 

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