Love, fast forward

Circa 3008. The last surviving Mughal descendant is busy getting Jupiter chiseled in the shape of a heart for his lady love. Old genes sure die hard.

Love is being tapped extensively now; it has been found the richest source of human energy and productivity, other than the strongest binding factor of inhabitants of the existential circle.

If you thought that it has only turned more superficial and meaninglessly physical by the day, here's a reality check. Psychosocially, biochemically and metaphysically, love has risen to the next level, a rather utopian plane. Cyber romance and virtually simulated love-making make for amusing history lessons. Time and distance are now redundant when travel is fast nearing the speed of light. But at the same time, gravity isn't strong enough to keep him/her from drifting away, either!

Private spaceship-salons are the most frequented hot-spots during this season, but the more reticent romantics prefer to visit faraway virgin galaxies, away from the everyday ecosystem. It's too hazy around this space, too milky a way to see love clearly, in all its purity.

Infidelity meters, however, are a must at every home, and extra-sensory receptors are at work all the time... you see, love cannot go unnoticed, so it is realized in each nano degree by this faithful machine as it tries hard to help the hopeless heart. Yes, the heart hasn't evolved at all... we'd been so busy developing our brains!

And should your love now give the all-important 'space' to the significant other, in this era of scientific soul-sealing? Negative! Unless it is a stag party on Mars or a hen's night out on Venus, beware! Blackholes of emptiness and asteroids driven by rivals could destroy togetherness forever... even kill one of you! But heck, who cares about death when immortality is an applicable option... together, forever, breathing or buried (read preserved for better times if today's world is dissatisfactory).

If you happen to feel loveless even as the universe celebrates this supernovic festival, worry not. No matter how weak your gene-pool (ugh... you deprived fella, weren't you fixed at birth?!) or overdeveloped your left brain, there are plenty of serotonin, oxytocin and phenylethylamine (yeah, love hormones, you educationally non-wired moron!) manufacturing units to medically enhance your LQ (Love Quotient). Thank the predecessors for Genetic Engineering, the mode by which we all are naturally endowed with the gift of 'ever-bliss' which often manifests into 'ever-loving' as well. Dehumanizing? Not at all... it's transhumanising!

Love, the supremest and most beautiful feeling, has transcended everything- physical dimensions, presence, absence, life, death, the various levels of consciousness and species, both earthly and unearthly.

But love is still very much love, deeply alive, and how!