Where's the fucking love?

in an increasingly sickening dating culture

You try out a few girls when you’re young, and when you find a good one, you marry and keep her.” These aren’t the words from any man I’ve ever dated, unfortunately obviously. They’re the words of a Balinese man I met yesterday, who’s been married to the same woman for 25 years and looked at me in disbelief when I told him that it’s just not that simple nowadays, at least not in my world, not with my lifestyle and most certainly, not with my type.

But why isn’t it that simple? Why is everything so fucking complicated these days when life could be really simple? Like self-checkout machines that always tell me to call an employee, dating apps where no one is genuinely looking to date but just to feel less alone for a few minutes, and social media where no one is really trying to be social but just to show their beetroot latte—these things are all supposed to simplify our lives, yet it feels like life was a hella lot easier before all of these inventions.