my friends made me.

My mother would probably say that love transcends the zeitgeist. She does not see her experience as part of a cultural trend; it was just the way things happened for her. “I guess it was a different time,” she said when I explained some of the modern complexities we face. “But people are people, so how hard could it be?”

They say that each generation thinks it invented love. But from what I can see, my generation seems to fear we’ve forgotten it.

Charlotte Alter