At First Sight

Writeen April24, 2009
I think that the world lives through the notion of love at first sight. If you think about it, that phenomenon exists in much of a regular person’s every day actions. The act of putting on makeup and dressing nicely to face the world, so that when one is seen for the first time by a stranger the sight will be appealing, and in some cases striking enough to make a lasting impression. The same is true for people already known to us, except in this case its first sight of the day, maybe the week or the last few years. I guess the term “love” here is slightly ambiguous, so we must give it a different meaning than the romantic sense of love at first sight. In the situations above I suppose it would be appeal at first sight or pleasing. I think that the word “love” can sometimes take on these lesser connotations anyways, so either way the words serve the same purpose. Shopping is a key example of this “love at first sight” phenomenon. In fact it is basically the foundation of which the act of shopping is based. You don’t take time to get to know a blouse or pair of pants or watch or necklace or even a book. You take a look at it and it either appeals to you or it doesn’t. You either love it or you don’t. The first sight of that object is what compels you to love it (or not) and therefore buy it (or not). In this example the use of the word love is very well placed. For me everything is love at first sight. This theory of love at first sight is sometimes all that gets me up in the morning. The idea that maybe after all the primping and polishing of my outer demeanor, while I’m walking passed someone they will look at me and love what they see. They will see me for the first time and think maybe that first sight appeal could progress into the more serious form of that appeal, the ideal and idealized and perpetually abstract and illusive phenomenon that is this love. Whatever love is anyway.