LOVE
Can You Find Love at the Bottom of the Bottle?
Are you trying to find love at the bottom of the bottle?
Let’s discuss the age-old idea of discovering true love through unlikely sources.
Imagine yourself enjoying your drink at the bar. Suddenly, you make eye contact with someone across the room. Your gut tells them that they seem to know everything.
Put on some romantic music, and you’ve got a rom-com slowly starting to play out.
Movies and novels tell these fantastic tales of characters meeting someone wonderful on a night out, especially when liquid courage is involved. In turn, people in real life follow suit.
But is there a genuine connection here? Or are you merely acting on the buzz?
The buzz
Sometimes, a little wine can make interacting with others effortless — it’s like a shot glass of confidence.
The reserved girl might learn to dance flawlessly, while the bashful guy might turn into a slick talker.
Indeed, there are those fabled stories of happy ever afters involving couples who met in bars. Not to mention, they undoubtedly experienced their fair share of hazy evenings and dubious choices.
But is a bar story really that appealing? It’s not like your life is the same as “How I Met Your Mother.” Besides (spoiler alert), Ted found his true love on a train station after a wedding.
Imagine two individuals finding a mutual affinity for a specific beverage or becoming closer over selecting the ideal beer from the menu. As they start to talk, the alcohol in their body begins to give them that tingly feeling — you already know what’s going to happen next.
After much talking, they leave the bar, grab a cab ride home, maybe even share a few laughs along the way, and then spend the rest of the night in bed.
Though it can seem fun, let’s not overlook the sobering reality check that occurs the morning after. Heartbreaks and hangovers aren’t the perfect conclusion that we all aspire for.
Relationships founded on the unstable foundation of too many cocktails may not stand the test of time.
Keep yourself in check
I did not write this article to judge you. We’ve all been there at one point — those empty and unmeaningful one-night stands that go nowhere. And even though it felt right then, it doesn’t really fill the void, does it?
You need to face this problem before it ultimately swallows you up. Drinking until you reach the bottom of the bottle is not the solution to everything. Besides, wouldn’t physical intimacy feel better with a person you are genuinely in love with?
That said, try to work on yourself. If things still don’t line up how you want them to, remember that pursuing meaningless flings won’t make you feel happy in the long run.
Love is complicated, unkempt, and a lovely thing that doesn’t always go as planned. Even when you can make new friends on a night out, depending only on the bottom of the bottle to start your love story could give you more headaches than happy endings.
