The Chicken or the Egg?

"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else." -George Bernard Shaw


Is love about finding the right person or you being in the right time of your life?  Western media perpetuates the idea that there is "The One" out there; if only you can just find them.  I've written about this topic before, but it just seems to keep coming up in my interactions with others.


There is a lovely movie that one of my friends (Thanks Allison!) recommended to me.  It's called TiMER, and its plot centers around a device that you can have attached to your body that is able to calculate the day that you will meet "The One."  I have watched this movie four times in the last couple of months; not because it's particularly mind-blowing but because I cannot stop thinking about this concept.

This is a funny and poignant movie that really examines the concept of "The One" and how it works within our ideas of love.  How can you know that you love someone unless you have a science-based timer telling you that it is guaranteed?  Should you bother getting into relationships with people that you know will be doomed because you are set to meet your "One" when you are 65 years old?  Can true love be scientifically proven?  Is it the right person, or the right time for you to settle?  If you know that your timer will go off when you are 30, are you fulfilling the timer's prophecy by refusing to take any romantic interests seriously until your timer goes off?


This movie asks some great questions; is the absolute scientific calculation of love a good thing?  Should we trust science and technology above how we feel about someone?


Watch this movie and listen to the questions that arise in your mind; and ask them to yourself, your friends, and me!