Are social gatherings relevant anymore?
Take marriages,for instance. Parents spent their life's savings on their child's wedding- which is often only a contract based on money. Either they see the wedlock as a final responsibility taken care of ,or as a means to a more luxurious life. And what happens at the destined venue? Girls - relatives and friends alike - compete to look their best and steal the show, while the bride herself is decked in gold and glittering garment, so that a stranger may get confused as to the identity of the true bride. Mothers huddle together to gossip or to compare outfits and accessories - Who wore it better? Who purchased the priciest gift? - and so on.
Needless to say that modern technology has ensured that there is no sanctity left in this supposed holy communion of two souls. "Then there is mirth in heaven when earthly things made even atone together" - that is all of the past. The very concept of love has changed.
A majority of the guests would have gathered only to size each other up, offer some conversation, smile even if they don't mean it, treat themselves to the banquet and leave immediately.
"Look like the innocent flower,but be the serpent under't." To no one's surprise, the Bard's words ring true, centuries in passing.
Yet again that lamentation- What is the world coming to?
Take marriages,for instance. Parents spent their life's savings on their child's wedding- which is often only a contract based on money. Either they see the wedlock as a final responsibility taken care of ,or as a means to a more luxurious life. And what happens at the destined venue? Girls - relatives and friends alike - compete to look their best and steal the show, while the bride herself is decked in gold and glittering garment, so that a stranger may get confused as to the identity of the true bride. Mothers huddle together to gossip or to compare outfits and accessories - Who wore it better? Who purchased the priciest gift? - and so on.
Needless to say that modern technology has ensured that there is no sanctity left in this supposed holy communion of two souls. "Then there is mirth in heaven when earthly things made even atone together" - that is all of the past. The very concept of love has changed.
A majority of the guests would have gathered only to size each other up, offer some conversation, smile even if they don't mean it, treat themselves to the banquet and leave immediately.
"Look like the innocent flower,but be the serpent under't." To no one's surprise, the Bard's words ring true, centuries in passing.
Yet again that lamentation- What is the world coming to?
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