The Wonderful Life of Mr. WannaB

Ep 12. - What Is This Thing Called Love?

When we’re small children we believe in so many things but soon we discover that not all that glitters is gold. Like instead of sucking on our mother’s nipple, we often suck on a fake one attached to a bottle full of formula - fake breast milk. When I was little, I remember my mother having this smooth fur coat. Nowadays you have fake fur that does the same job and keeps animal rights defenders quiet… and with their clothes on! Some of us, as children, may have come upon our mother’s facial massagers – how traumatic is that?! – and later learned they’re nothing less of fake dicks… and come to use dildos ourselves!

Life is full of fakes: fake sugar, fake chocolate, fake flowers, fake cookies, fake diamonds, fake pets, fake nails, fake eyelashes, fake breasts, fake hair/eye/skin color, fake legs/feet/arms/hands, some people have received a pig’s heart, there’s fake meat, there’s even my favourite with the best name: I can’t believe it’s not butter, butter!

I ask: in a world full of fakes, how can we tell true love?

Maybe all these fakes reflected our phony nature, maybe love isn’t supposed to be true! It comes in so many ways, with so many packages and wrappings, it’s so sudden and subtle at the same time, so undetectable and pushy, so remarkable and disappointing, so yin and yang… how can you tell? Do you have a definition for it? One accepted by all and said to be complete by the whole world?

If in the case of chocolate, breasts, dicks, flowers, diamonds, fur, etc, we can still tell true from false, have we been faking love for so long desperately wanting it to be true that we’ve forgotten how it really is?