{"id":63232,"date":"2025-11-24T19:37:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/63232\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T19:37:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:37:29","slug":"love-isnt-seasonal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/63232\/","title":{"rendered":"Love isn’t Seasonal"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at TCU chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus.<\/p>\n

We talk a lot about holiday magic, but what we\u2019re really seeing is seasonal effort. People are kinder, more generous, and more emotionally available during the holidays, turning love into a limited-edition commodity, something that is performed rather than practiced. And this attitude raises a bigger question: why do we act like kindness has an expiration date?<\/p>\n

And don\u2019t even get me started on relationships. Every Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year, it feels like half the world suddenly scrambles to get into a relationship just so they\u2019re not \u201calone for the holidays.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Love shouldn\u2019t be a trend.<\/p>\n

Love shouldn\u2019t be a seasonal aesthetic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It shouldn\u2019t take twinkling lights for people to act like they care.<\/p>\n

Honestly, it\u2019s not even just \u201ccuffing season\u201d relationships that bother me. It\u2019s also the performative vibe I get when I see some people\u2019s approach to volunteering. I love that people show up, donate, help, and pour into their communities. Seeing people care is beautiful. But sometimes it feels like the energy behind it is more about being seen doing the right thing than actually wanting to do it. It\u2019s like kindness becomes a photo op, a checklist item, or a way to feel good for a moment, instead of something that is meaningful and consistent. And the thing is, I don\u2019t want anyone to stop helping; I just wish that same holiday enthusiasm stayed alive even when it\u2019s not the \u201cright moment\u201d or when no one\u2019s watching, because people still need support on random Tuesdays and communities still need love in the middle of April. Acts of kindness shouldn\u2019t depend on a vibe; they should be woven into everyday life. Maybe that\u2019s why I\u2019m so sensitive to it: I care deeply all the time, so it\u2019s hard to watch compassion come and go like a trend instead of something steady and human.<\/p>\n

Real love, whether it\u2019s romantic, platonic, or community-based, is an all-year thing. It\u2019s showing up in April when everyone\u2019s stressed, in July when the world is too hot and no one has patience, in September when you\u2019re overwhelmed and tired and not in the mood to be soft. It\u2019s giving, even when no one is watching. It\u2019s caring, even when your Instagram feed isn\u2019t telling you to.<\/p>\n

Love is consistent.
Love is every day.
Love is not a holiday decoration you put up and take down.<\/p>\n

And maybe the real reason it gets to me is because I fall for it every single time. I see people acting sweeter, talking softer, and showing little bursts of affection, and a part of me wants to believe it\u2019s real. I get hopeful. I start thinking that maybe they finally mean what they say and care the way I care. But then the season passes, and so does the energy. And I\u2019m left realizing that I read too much into it, that people don\u2019t always have the heartfelt motives I imagine. It annoys me because I want to believe the best in people, and sometimes that empathy blinds me. I love all year long, consistently and wholeheartedly, so when others seem to turn it on and off, it leaves me confused, wondering if I\u2019m the one misunderstanding what love looks like for them.<\/p>\n

I guess what I\u2019m saying is\u2026 I wish people wouldn\u2019t wait until the holidays to act like they have hearts. I wish they didn\u2019t treat love like it\u2019s limited to specific seasons. Because the world would be so much softer, so much better, if people remembered that love doesn\u2019t expire on January 1st. Love isn\u2019t seasonal, but people make it feel that way. And honestly, we deserve better than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at TCU chapter and does not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[33117,33118,33119,26294,33121,116,118,117,1972,33120,26296],"class_list":["post-63232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-friendship","tag-love-relationships","tag-act-of-kindness","tag-chapterchapter","tag-chaptertcu","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-holidays","tag-love","tag-sponsoredno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}