#LEISURE

A Strange Prose About Love

Versión Original (Español CO)

Una Extraña Prosa Acerca del Amor

Es extraño que los años no hagan mella en la intención de amar y sean un débil contrincante ante el deseo fulgurante de compartir una pequeña parte del alma y del tiempo. “No es bueno que el hombre esté solo”, dice Génesis; pero, tristemente, el hombre busca siempre la salida del Edén y el camino hacia el destierro. Tal vez porque quedarse implica algo más difícil que partir: permanecer. Las condiciones actuales de la mugre sociedad son los ingredientes propicios para los caldos de cultivo de la absurda soledad; y cuando al final lo logras y te has sobrepuesto a cada circunstancia, todo puede echarse para atrás, así, sin más.

Lo que, a ojo de buen arquitecto, se considera estable, el peso que ejercen la rutina y la tranquilidad puede fisurar sus cimientos y hacerlo colapsar. Porque el ser humano pareciera haber aprendido a soportar el caos mejor que la calma. Y quizá por eso destruye aquello que más había deseado.

Pero ¿por qué insistir renuentemente?, ¿por qué seguir creyendo en el amor? Tienes que darte cuenta de que ya no son las mismas demandas: los sentidos, la pasión y el placer. Ya no se trata de un asunto de proyectarse, establecerse y crecer. Y mucho menos de encontrar a alguien con quien envejecer. Esto solo se ha vuelto la aventura de llegar a otra persona que se permita, simplemente, amar. Alguien que no salga huyendo cuando la emoción se vuelve cotidiana y los días dejan de parecer una conquista.

La ilusión se desentiende en un oscuro panorama en el que se vive lo mismo cada día, y la vida no se hizo para repetir instantes; ninguno, por romántico que sea. Una rosa una mañana es un detalle encantador, pero una rosa cada mañana no. Vivir con una boca llena de elogios, tarde o temprano, te convierte en un mentiroso. Porque hasta las palabras más hermosas se desgastan cuando se convierten en rutina. Y mientras la monotonía los abraza, quienes supuestamente piensan hacen ventas con la idea de que estar solos es bastante provechoso, si se aman a sí mismos, ¿pero y si no?

De igual forma, somos una pieza de un gran rompecabezas que carece de sentido sin el todo. Bueno es que la pieza a nuestro lado sea sencilla, porque si no encaja y queda montada, lo razonable es entender claramente que no va ahí. Déjala ir, no la retengas; si se queda, te deformará y, a la larga, no estará. Déjala ir, porque una buena relación se da por la acción de ser, de estar, de permanecer, de mirarse el uno al otro como alguien similar, hasta el punto de no saber, en realidad, para quién se hacen las cosas.

Y qué difícil es dejarse amar, porque el amor se manifiesta de maneras muy distintas: un café, un beso, una oración en secreto... Nadie sabe a ciencia cierta qué es lo que necesita el otro. Todos improvisan, todos fallan un poco, todos llegan heridos. Pero al final, créanlo o no, incluso quienes huyen, quienes se esconden y quienes juran no necesitar a nadie, terminan buscando lo mismo.


No olvides suscribirte

SILLY BLOG


2020.05.09 | Bucaramanga, COLOMBIA

A Strange Prose About Love

It is strange that the years leave no mark on the intention to love, and remain such a weak opponent against the blazing desire to share a small fragment of the soul and of one’s time. “It is not good for man to be alone,” says Genesis; yet sadly, man always seeks the exit from Eden and the road toward exile. Perhaps because staying demands something far more difficult than leaving: remaining. The current conditions of this filthy society are the perfect ingredients for breeding the absurdity of loneliness; and when you finally achieve it and have overcome every circumstance, everything can suddenly fall apart, just like that.


What, in the eyes of a good architect, is considered stable, can have its foundations cracked and collapsed under the weight of routine and tranquility. Because human beings seem to have learned how to endure chaos better than calmness. And perhaps that is why they destroy the very thing they once desired the most.


But why insist so stubbornly? Why continue believing in love? You have to realize that the demands are no longer the same: the senses, passion, and pleasure. It is no longer about projecting yourself, settling down, and growing. Much less about finding someone to grow old with. This has merely become the adventure of reaching another person who allows themselves to simply love. Someone who does not run away once emotion becomes ordinary and the days stop feeling like conquest.


Hope fades within a dark landscape where the same thing is lived every day, and life was not made to repeat moments; none of them, no matter how romantic they may be. A rose one morning is a charming gesture, but a rose every morning is not. Living with a mouth full of praise will, sooner or later, turn you into a liar. Because even the most beautiful words wear out once they become routine. And while monotony embraces them, those who supposedly think sell the idea that being alone is quite beneficial, if they love themselves — but what if they do not?


In the same way, we are a piece of a great puzzle that lacks meaning without the whole. It is good for the piece beside us to be simple, because if it does not fit and overlaps, then clearly it does not belong there. Let it go, do not hold it back; if it stays, it will deform you, and in the long run it will not remain. Let it go, because a good relationship is built through the act of being, of staying, of remaining, of looking at one another as someone alike, to the point of no longer truly knowing for whom things are done.


And how difficult it is to allow oneself to be loved, because love manifests itself in very different ways: a coffee, a kiss, a secret prayer... Everyone improvises, everyone fails a little, everyone arrives wounded. But in the end, believe it or not, even those who run away, those who hide, and those who swear they need no one, end up searching for the same thing.

Files & Stuff

200509 - prosa del amor wila

Print a poster of this Lucky Wila to get 7 years of love and instrospection meanwhile you're becomen sexier.

IF YOU LIKED IT

Charlotte Recommends

If you enjoyed this piece by Wil, you might also find these works especially compelling. Each one explores, in its own way, the fragile balance between intimacy, solitude, permanence, and the exhausting human desire to be understood by another person.


The Art of Loving — Erich Fromm

A profound philosophical and psychological exploration of love, not as a spontaneous emotion, but as an art that requires discipline, understanding, patience, and emotional maturity. Much like this text, Fromm questions why modern societies seem increasingly incapable of sustaining meaningful emotional bonds despite deeply craving them.

Modern Romance — Aziz Ansari

Although written with humor, this book offers a surprisingly intelligent reflection on loneliness, modern relationships, dating culture, and emotional dissatisfaction in contemporary society. It connects strongly with the idea present in your text that people long for connection while simultaneously sabotaging permanence and intimacy.

Being and Nothingness – Jean-Paul Sartre

A denser philosophical recommendation, but deeply connected to the emotional core of your writing. Sartre explores the tension between freedom, attachment, self-awareness, and the painful complexity of being perceived by another person. Your reflection about remaining, fitting, and allowing oneself to be loved echoes many existentialist concerns explored in this work.

0 0 votes
Post Rating
Subscribe
guest
0 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments

#Love #Loneliness #Relationships #Philosophy #Existentialism #HumanNature #Reflection #Melancholy #Writing #Soul