What is love?
Love of yesterday and today have many aspects in common: it is however the oldest feeling in the world. There was, there is and there will always be there, because man is an individual who cannot live alone, he needs a figure to complete him and love him. It is true, however, that the differences are there and they are macroscopic, not so much for the feeling itself, but because with the passing of the time the way of living love has undergone many changes based mainly on the modern way of life, mentality and cultural context.
Love before…
We have the opportunity to analyze love from multiple points of view, we can have the testimony, through the verses and the words of the authors, that this feeling, the highest and purest of all, was the theme par excellence of the poets, the most used. Already in the twelfth century Andrea Cappellano wrote about love and fears that this entails because love is passion, born first from the sight and then from the constant thought of the other. In the past there was a strong sense of waiting to see your loved one or your loved one, you appreciated the small moments, a game of looks, short words exchanged, stolen kisses, letters sent and a strong sense of waiting. Waiting to receive love letters and send them, with a careful search to leave your perfume soaked in paper or lipstick as a signature, symbol of a kiss. Here, you sought love in small details. A love cultivated with small afternoon walks, accompanied by a cup of tea or coffee in a place not far from home to be able to return on time. Little loves that grew and lasted a lifetime.
Love after…
Today, however, the new young people no longer have a strong desire to know each other, to fall in love. They walk along the street in the company of the telephone, a look down, indifferent and annoyed to see the reality that surrounds them. You prefer to be tied to a screen behind a PC, make unreal acquaintances, live virtual loves, have many followers, endless chats accompanied by emoticons, a false sense of security in not feeling alone. Today we have moved to ask for friendship on social networks and we are pining for an “not displayed” on Whatsapp.
Zahida Moussa, Sofia De Renzi,
Martina Chiardoni, Elisa D’Angelo
3BL
