I know hundreds of articles are written about this certain subject everyday, but I believe criticism is due. I’m talking about the dating culture that we live in. More specifically, I’m talking about the way we communicate and how easily we’re willing to pass by and treat people like commodities. And on top of this, go on about our lives so selfishly like robots.

I think that we live in a robotic society in general. Too often you’re sitting at a table with your friends and every single person is engrossed in their cell phone screen. We don’t know how to socially interact with each other. Getting to know somebody new is done over text message, and when we don’t receive an answer, we assume the worst. Does he not like me? Is there another girl? What’s wrong with me? Texts are perceived in different contexts because we lose the face to face communication and readability. Tinder is our go-to place and most people are looking for meaningless, robotic hookups.

It’s kind of biased, coming from a hopeless romantic, but what happened to the dating that used to happen when my parents grew up? Where he would wait out on your front porch steps with flowers in hand? Where you would go listen to live music or have a picnic lunch somewhere?

It seems to me like all people are trying to do today is bury their emotions under the rug. Go to college, get a part time job, get a full time job, work, work, work, die. I definitely know that there’s more to life than that. The human experience. Life isn’t about getting married and having kids and dying either. It’s about making sacrifices for the ones you love, platonically or not.

We live in a selfish universe. My pleasure. My success. Look at me. In the context of dating, what happened to getting to know somebody’s soul? Not just an Instagram picture with a face full of makeup. Who looks most like a Kardashian? In this robotic world of meaningless text responses and Tinder hookups, let's make a change in the world we live in. Let’s stop treating people like items, brushing our feelings under the rug, and start saying what we need to say and feeling what we need to feel.

Let's bring real genuine communication back into the world of dating, and in general. Let's dive deeper into the human experience and get to know somebody’s soul. To all my gal pals who have been a victim of this monotonous hookup culture, this is for you.