The Myth Called Romance || Acharya Prashant

We are forcefully made to believe that the purpose of life is to chase a man or a woman and the highest possible ideal is to spend time or life with some nice and right person. What is life for? No, life is not for a noble cause. Life is not for liberation. Life is not for knowledge.

Life is not for exploration. Life is so that you can have somebody’s hand in your hand. Life is for romance, right? So surely it is coming from the society, not biology. And from where in society is it coming? It is coming from our avenues of entertainment. Most of us are in relationships not because of freedom but because of compulsion.