Love, trust and hope in 2025

Love

The time when love begins with the first swipe on the phone. The time when AI matchmakers use Big Data to run billions of data to calculate when pairing you with someone. The time when going online means finding a lover without needing a matchmaker. Dozens of cafes offer dating services, dozens of online clubs and groups help you pick up a lover on your phone. You don't need to fly to the US, the UK, or Europe to start a love affair with a guy there. Everything is available right on your phone. If you don't like foreign love, you can love domestic love, even virtual love. And they love you, care for you, and talk to you more intimately than real people.

Love in the 4.0 era is not just a love story online. Even in real life, it is different from the love of the "old" 7X, 8X, even 9X. It is different from when dating. Nowadays, when dating, they share the cost of food, movie tickets. There is equality in blind dates. Many young women say: If I go on a blind date with my boyfriend, I have to pay. It's not like the "old" times, blind dates were only for men, so men had to pay for everything. Women in the 4.0 era are very equal. It's just dating, it's not like you men spend money to go on blind dates. We also spend money to go on blind dates with you. If you like someone, then go ahead, if you don't like him, then "next" (ignore) and skip. Women can go on blind dates with two guys in one night, even at the same time, like in blind dates held in coffee shops or groups, where they rotate conversations with about 5-10 guys.

In this day and age, people would rather choose an "AI" to confide in and share with than a human. So if a guy thinks worse than a machine, is busy, inattentive, patriarchal, selfish, and doesn't respect women, then he'll be single forever. In this day and age, what people are looking for in love is not someone to rely on in old age, someone to have children with, someone to support them. They are looking for someone who is on the same level, someone who contributes to the best in them. Someone who can share their life with them. Because they can earn money themselves, their children can give birth on their own, and when they are old, they have a nursing home. So they need a person, but a quality person.

Spring joy of mother and daughter in Tay Tuu flower village ( Hanoi ) (Photo: Ly Giang).

They are also lazy to get married or get married late because they know that God does not create elephants and grass. They live responsibly with the children they give birth to and the quality of marriage they will live. People have fewer children to take care of their children best. The elderly also find their own happiness so as not to bother their children.

That doesn't mean that love nowadays isn't as passionate, lasting, or sincere as "in the past"! No! They still love passionately like 2024 years ago. But it will be more civilized. Love is contributing to one's own good, not expecting anything in return. Love doesn't mean depending on each other. It's symbiosis. It's respect and commitment. There's even a clear, binding contract.

Love in the 4.0 era is four - words - no:

No parents put children where they sit.

Don't love a single man.

No boat follows the rudder, woman follows the husband, but equality and together.

Not because his parents are rich, his house is on the main street. Women are independent now!

Faith

Someone said: The more modern life is, the more rare trust is. Isn't that right when the girl you meet online and the girl you meet in real life are the same but completely different. Even online, you call her my beautiful and good girl, but when you meet her in real life, you might have to say "Hello, miss". Not to mention, the girl has a cute online nickname, every status is full of philosophy, but when she is in real life... oh my! That's because what she writes online is what ChatGPT writes for her, but in real life, she doesn't have ChatGPT to rely on.

Isn't that right when the guy you met online is a soldier in the US, rich and also knows Taylor Swift. There's video evidence, how can you deny it, Taylor Swift even waved and called your name, talked to you. So when he asked you to transfer him 5,000 USD to settle the fee with the commitment to pay you back 15,000 USD and promise to buy a plane ticket to pick you up to the US to play with him and Taylor Swift, you immediately agreed. Until you found out that Taylor Swift or even Donald Trump are products of Deepfake - a technology that creates digital characters that replace one person's portrait with another person's portrait that looks real. You lost 5,000 USD but what you lost more was trust in humanity.

Not only that, even charity is being covered up. If a charity fund of 100,000 is donated and turned into 100 million, how can we trust them? There are too many "good people" until they are... exposed. There are too many "turnaround" cases, the day before the whole world loudly condemned Ms. A, defended and protected Ms. B, but the next day they simultaneously praised Ms. B and condemned Ms. A. There are even drama cases where people scripted and manipulated millions of people, leading millions of people to believe and watch the drama to the point of not eating. It was not until the police announced an arrest warrant for spreading information that caused public confusion that we finally woke up.

But wait a minute, those who don't believe still don't believe, but those who have faith have seen the faith. There are still countless kindnesses. People are still kind to each other, even using technology to spread that kindness further. Like every time the country is in danger, everywhere we see kind Vietnamese people appearing in a myriad of forms. Sometimes it's just the image of a car slowing down to protect a motorbike from the storm. Sometimes it's just the image of a pho restaurant hanging up, or charitable groups connecting people not only locally but also globally. Vietnamese people, no matter where they live in the world , just need a swipe to contribute to the country. The amount of money donated by overseas Vietnamese during Typhoon Yagi or during Covid-19 is also huge. Without the Internet, would we have been able to get closer so quickly? Thanks to technology, we have erased the distance with the world, and the image of our beautiful Vietnam is appearing more and more in the world.

Trust in the 4.0 era is the kind of trust that is verified by science, technology, evidence, and numbers, not just by feelings, word of mouth, or dirty media. Everything is transparent on the Internet with countless checking tools.

A girl wearing ao dai, holding a peach blossom branch to welcome Tet (Photo: Tran Duc Hanh).

And hope in 2025

Tet means hope - I really like this slogan. Tet is the country entering Spring with the beginning and opening of new life. Of "each tender green bud, each sparkling dew drop, Spring". Of "from now on, people learn to love each other". Spring is when hope sprouts!

Love has hope so love becomes bright and passionate. Young people start to love by sowing hope. And use love as a source of nutrition to nurture that hope. When we love each other, don't we become each other's hope?

Faith has hope, so faith is stronger. When we give our faith to someone, don't we also receive hope? Hope that this faith is placed in the right place, with the worthy person. The fact that they do not trust us does not make us lose hope. Because I always believe that people only become good when they give each other hope and faith.

And for each of us, entering this year 2025, I sincerely wish that your heart always has love, faith and hope. As long as you have those three things, your 2025 will be extremely brilliant. Love will make you more beautiful. Faith will make you stronger. Hope will make you more passionate.

Happy 2025 to us!

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