While scrolling on Tiktok, a couple showed up on my For You Page doing the "Love Is" challenge. While watching them, with jealousy, it made me wonder: How come at young age they experience the kind of love that seemed so pure and genuine? A love built so strong that seemed like a cupid-planned? The time when the Part 2 of the challenge showed up, questions kept formulating in my mind, and my heart was now seeking for answers. How come they were saying moments, words, and experiences that felt like it all came from a romance book or a movie? And wait—were romance books and movies became the standard of love or is it the other way around? Or is it.. Maybe they became the standards of love beacause that kind of love literally exist in real life anyway? That the author experienced them and wanted to tell the story? After all, life immediately becomes a story as the hands of the clock move—and life will even amazingly sound like a fiction, a story-...
Some people say that life is more beautiful without cameras; Life is more real behind it; That life, is not what we captured, but what we felt. But real life is honestly its entirety. Recorded laughs and cries, Randoms and skies, Moments we try to keep and remember the longest time, And perhaps, not wanting them to slide. Not just only the memories; the people as well. People that offered hands and hugs; Handkerchieves or glasses of water. The events that they made life, lifer. Life behind the cameras may mostly be my favorites And life being filmed will be the proof why they are my favorites. Captured or not, real life is the entirety of it, Nothing's more real and nothing's lesser. For we all know that one day, We'll forever be thankful for that life that was felt and filmed Because that could also only be the life That we could be left behind, one day. [07182025]