Love, amirite?
We all know that the early stages of new relationships are when we feel the most vulnerable, and that we find ourselves questioning things that we would otherwise do without thinking.
Does this person like me? How do I look when I’m talking? Should I laugh? Am I ugly when I laugh?
While this conversation takes place in our brain, in the real world, we also have to carry a conversation and remember to throw in some funny anecdote showcasing just how kind, intelligent and humble we are.
If only we were able to put into words coherently all the things that we feel at the beginning? Maybe we’d stop freaking out and just go with the flow.
Cue ‘The Complexity of Love, in 13 Untranslatable Words’, an animated video that is guaranteed to be the sweetest thing you’ll see all week.
It’s just over three minutes long, but it manages to put a name to many of the weird phenomena that only happen at the very beginning of new love.
For example, the Scottish have the word “tartle”for when you need to introduce your new other half to someone but you’ve forgotten the person’s name (maybe you haven’t seen them in a while?).
“The act of hesitating when introducing someone because you’ve forgotten their name”
Or how about “tiam”, which is farsi for “the twinkle in your eye when you first meet someone”?
Or “mamihlanpinatapai”, Yaghan for “a silent acknowledgement and understanding between two people who are both wishing or thinking the same thing but are unwilling to initiate”
The video was produced by Canadian news station CBC as a promotion for a new podcast entitled ‘Love Me’. The creators of the podcast, Cristal Duhaime and Mira Burt-Wintonick, have some interesting ideas about modern love.
They said: “Deep down we all just want to be loved, so why is it one of the toughest things to get right?”
Watch the full video here:
