The Words with Wings

 The news headline read, " Dating apps see matches bloom ". The introductory paragraph of that particular article read as follows: Dating apps such as Tinder, Bumble, and Truly Madly are witnessing a surge of activity in India, with some clocking as much as a 140% rise in subscribers. I'd be lying if I say that I haven't tried any of the dating apps. When the lockdown began, there was a lot of hype about dating apps all around, especially among the college students like me. So one fine day, out of utter curiosity, I too decided to download one of these apps just for getting to know how this online dating thing works. That experience made me realize that maybe I'm not made for dating this way. Eventually, I uninstalled the app and decided to never install one again. But a few days back, I came across various advertisements for several dating apps; ergo, with a hope that it'll turn out to be better this time, I reinstalled one of the apps. I could stand being th...

 We, as humans, tend to expect certain things out of everything, be it a new food item or any of our relationships. These expectations are of two kinds. The first kind is where you, kind of, know that you are expecting something specific like if you have a close friend, the last thing you expect from them is to wish you on your birthday. The other kind is when you subconsciously have certain suppositions in your mind but are not aware of them. These are the ones that might cause everyone a bit of trouble. Let me try to give an example of that second kind. So, all through our life, we keep meeting new people and often get attached to them. Remember in elementary school, when you were a friend of all those who commuted in the same school bus? They all seemed so close to us at that stage in life but as we grew, we kept meeting new people, sometimes even forgetting the old ones. We connect to a lot of people in our school life and since most of us usually spend a good deal of time in a...