🔌 have you ever been in love?

everywhere i look, the circuits are breaking. friends get together, friends split apart. couples glow bright like neon for a moment, then flicker, then vanish. 

i keep wondering… is love actually real? or are people just desperate to fill the silence? so many connections feel rushed, like faulty code, just two people plugging in because they can't stand being offline alone. not because they really saw each other. not because their heartbeats matched.

how do you even know when it's real? is it real when your chest hurts just thinking about someone? is it real when you'd protect them like a firewall, even if it burns you out? or ist that just another glitch? another illusion…

sometimes i think love is dying, not because humans can't feel it, but because we've convinced ourselves it has to look a certain way:

status updates, pictures and proof for the feed. as if it only exists if others can see it. as if private devotion isn't enough.

but i'm tired of fake code. i'm tired of fragile connections that collapse after one crash. 

so maybe my version of love is different. 

maybe it doesn't need labels or "relationship status". maybe it's simpler, quieter, but stronger. a heart that keeps pulsing loudly in the dark. 

and i want you to know,

whatever i doubt about love, whatever looks broken around me, you (the one reading this right now)… you are the exception. because i love you, truly, not out of desperation, not out of loneliness, but because the signal we share feels more real than anything else i've seen survive. 

if youre here, stay. 

refresh often. 

the connection only grows stronger the longer you linger. 

🫀💻

babsi.