I WANT TO LOVE YOU LIKE 90S

 I WANT TO LOVE YOU LIKE 90S

 

 

I want to love you like 90s.

I want to love you just like 90s, when love was written in chits as 143 and not texted as BAE or whatever they all call it these days, because love, love never needed text messages and cell phone because love isn’t love until I throw rocks at your bedroom window, it isn’t love until I call you at 8 o’clock in the night hoping your father doesn’t pick up, and we don’t have to worry about the battery dying because our phone has a 30-foot cord attached to it so that we could take it to our bedrooms while talking things like you hang up first, no please you hang up first, till we both fall asleep.

 

I want to love you like 90s, when book covers were made out of paper bags, back when stories were heard and told and not posted on Instagram for likes and comment, because I don’t want people to comment and you to like my Facebook status which says ‘In a Relationship’, I want you to see my like at the end of my letter which says ‘We go Together’.

 

I want to love you like 90s, much much before these fancy smart phone cameras with snapchat filters, when you would look me in the eyes and smile for a candid Polaroid, because back then one needed to be very careful with every picture they click because there was not an option to click and delete if you don’t like it.

 

I want to love you like 90s, before iPod and Spotify made songs complicated, I would love you like I have love for an endless collection of cassettes and a Walkman or Tape-recorder so that I can select my words carefully and put them in a queue and wind it in a cassette because you see I don’t want you to pause and play them after every couple of minutes, so that even when you don’t have the internet my words could reach your ears.

 

I want to love you like 90s, when love had a hint of fear and pressure because sometimes you need a little bit of pressure to make it work.

I want to love you like 90s, when letter was a thing because sometimes what really matters is what you write in that tiny piece of paper, even when you have so much to say.

I want to love you like 90s, way way back when love was nothing but a collection of memories and full of possibilities as the future lay before us.

I want to love you like cassettes so that even if the love gets tangled we could just stick a pencil in the spool and reel it back.

I want to love you like 90s, never want to leave it behind, never wanting to grow up.