Monday, 7 April 2025

Love, Dopamine & Other Hallucinations

Love is not a poem

It’s a bad habit with good lighting, or as the new-age retards call it: aesthetic

It starts with serotonin setting you up like that shady friend who swears “This one’s different”


It’s a bluff in broad daylight

You get high on forehead kisses and shared playlists

And before you know it

You’re trauma-bonding over alcohol and daddy issues


They say love is magic

But then, deep down, you know magic isn't real; magic is make belief

A carefully crafted con job for deluded desperate people too scared to admit the universe doesn’t owe them shit

It’s a placebo sold in pop songs and paperback novels



You think you're starring in a rom-com

Spoiler alert: You're the unpaid extra in a psychological thriller

You’re not watching the movie

You are the plot twist that gaslights itself every single night into thinking "This is normal"


You romanticized it

Of course you did

They fed you Shelleys, Bollywood, and Valentine's Day capitalism before you hit puberty

They never taught you how to walk away from someone just because they were bad for your brain chemistry

Because nobody wants to hear that love is Pavlovian conditioning

That you’re just chasing dopamine with a smiley face

That heartbreak is withdrawal

That healing is rehab without the group therapy


You don’t miss them

You miss the daily dosage of distraction from yourself

Because me-time is like weekends; necessity but in minimums, overdo it, and you feel your sanity packing its bags in silence


And so you go back

You think maybe this time, love won’t be wrapped in dreadful baggages and unresolved PTSD wearing a perfume you once liked

But deep down, you know

Love is just another drug you forgot to quit

And worse?

You're already looking for your next dealer, hoping this one is sangria in a wine glass, but knowing full well it is arsenic in a whiskey bottle

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