An aromantic’s thoughts on love stories
I’ve only lived it vicariously through other people’s lens, be it fictional or not. When asked about teenage infatuation, I shrug and say, “I’ve never really had a crush.” In the case of interrogations about relationships, the same thoughts run through my head—I’m not one for it, I won’t be interested in one, I’m as aromantic as they come, if you insist on putting a label to it.
All I know about love is through copious amounts of young adult literature, which I still consume from time to time. A friend used to recommend Sarah Dessen’s books, whose whole shtick of young love and traumatic pasts still sits on my shelves. They’re formulaic, at best , but they goaded me to pile books upon books from her collection, until my Goodreads peers were exhausted themselves.
All I know about love is through the different pairings that have graced my screens, who have all been the center of a long, arduous fixation at one point. More often than not, they’re set in the backdrop of something bigger than themselves, although their love seems to outshine them all. It goes like this: My father, in his early 20s, departs Manila for Tacloban on a business trip as a newly-minted career guy. A storm halts his flight like fate, and his plane gets diverted to Cebu.
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