Wongfu: Accumulated

Wongfu always ends up making me think more than I like to on a Tuesday (though to be fair this video was actually posted on a Monday, in which I would have to think more than normal on a Monday, and that would just not be pleasant). 

I originally got into Wongfu videos because they were funny, however I ended up watching some really well thought out content designed to question certain aspects of our life. In the original Facebook post regarding this video on Wongfu's page, they had deemed this video to be geared more towards an older audience, but even at my ripe young age of 19, I can understand the underlying sentiment behind the video. 

At what point in our life is simply liking someone not enough? I mean, when two people go to the same high school or the same college and they are able to be around each other essentially every day, a simple "I want to see you" will result in the two actually being able to see each other. Though, as we grow older, many of our friends will move around the city, the country, the world. No longer, will a relationship just be simply safe within the boundaries of our university walls. Then a couple has to factor in travel in order to see each other, and whether they are able to decide on one place to live with each other, and with that there are many more factors. Maybe one person is not able to give up a career in one city, and the other person is not able to give up the comfort of being in a 'home' city. Then, how will their love test against reality?

There are realistic factors breaking relationships every day. From that, more and more, we will lose this will, this hope, this faith, to love. We will become more complacent, and we will marry for realistic reasons. We will marry because, it is the age to do so. Sometimes, an 'I love you' is no longer enough, when you yourself have no curiosity, no faith, and no hope in love anymore.

I wish you to never lose this idea: that love is all consuming, it's powerful, and it will be enough. We will grow old, and we will leave this make believe bubble that we have created for ourselves and will will finally join reality. But, in the depths of our heart, maybe we can still keep some of that make believe.

♚ Yushi