Opportunity cost of being in love

Love might just be he most overrated emotion in the world!

They say that wars were fought over love, monuments were built as memoirs of one’s love for another and a lot of great sacrifices were made as an expression of one’s love.

It is the very reason why poor jealousy, contempt, anger and guilt were denied their place in the history and their role in causing the epic wars and troubles.

There’s so much rambling about how great it feels to be in love, about the perfect partners and the much loved happy endings. And maybe all that is really as great as they tell you, but has anyone thought about what we lose in order to nurture this joyous yet disappointing bond of love? Logically, is it really worth it? Ever thought about the opportunity cost of being in love?

People love stories about the sacrifices made in the hope to make a relationship work that was already doomed from the very beginning, they love the tragedies and who knows, maybe all humans are sadists, but is it really something worth appreciating?

A lifetime of opportunities, a bundle of potential, a promising individual who didn’t live upto the expectations, who could never be as great as he was destined to, just because one ill-fated day he fell into the unfortunate trap of love.

Fast forward, he runs away from his home, leaves his education withdraws his admission from the Ivy League he was studying in, just to take up a boring low paid job to support his family. And this is what we as a society are glorifying.

We encourage our youngsters to to keep their futures at stake just in order to perform such senseless grand gestures in the influence of their teenage hormones, and not even real feelings. We appreciate them going to such lengths, even if it’s for all the wrong reasons.

Loving someone must also be a logical decision, as opposed to just being a completely emotional one.

Now, of course, love in itself is not bad, on the contrary I believe it when you tell me that it’s rather quite a pleasant feeling, but to lose yourself in someone else’s love is just not what you were meant to do. You are meant to be so much more than that, you are supposed to find yourself, make a complete fool out of yourself, learn from your mistakes because that truly does make you a better person, but never lose out on your whole life just because you made the mistake of loving someone else other than you or worse loving someone else while hating your own beautiful self, because that is exactly when you turn your sublime feelings into something to condemn.

The true opportunity cost of being in such a god forbidden romance is losing your own self.