Ghosts of Dating past, Present & future

 Scene 1

A girl is sitting with her smart phone in her hand, swiping through her favorite dating apps, Tumble and  Binge..

After her 10th superlike & mindless swiping she sighs & puts her phone down thinking what a waste of time, love was supposed to be like Romeo & Juliet, Heer & Ranjha (or Jordan), Raj & Simran.. when did asking someone what are you wearing in the middle of the day came to be defined as love... Anyways, she thought there is no love left in this world..

The phone rang, her friend was calling, wonder what that was about. Lets hear..

"I am going to meet a guy, I don't want to.. I am sure he will be creepy, bad & boring"

"Don't have a negative perspective about things, go meet him with positivity & possibility of finding someone you might genuinely like" She consoled knowing well that this was a lie and she is just as skeptical of the guy as her friend is..

Cynicism has crept in her soul and whenever someone talks about love, she shudders with disgust.. Just as she was about to answer more text messages on her dating apps; a woman appears as if out of nowhere, with huge chains and locks around heart and.. with the most horrible makeup anyone could ever see..

She screamed her heart out, "WHAT THE HELLL.. Who are you?"

 Just as she got up to run, the woman said, "Damn it woman, calm down.. I am a ghost.."

The girl began to blab "What? A ghost? Are you kidding.. Am I dreaming? Was I hit on the headd.."  

"Will you just shut up and hear me out" The ghost woman interrupted.. "Once upon a time when I lived on this planet, yesterday, yes I died yesterday; I used to be just like you.. I hated love, I grunted at every love poem and every guy who ever showed any interest in wanting to date me; I listened to Taylor Swift all the time and cried and got mad at all the guys I never dated."

"Ohkay but why are you telling me this?" the girl asked..

"I am telling you this because, you are doing exactly what I did, your heart has turned black, metaphorically. You are walking on the same path as I did, I can see you dying alone as your cats feed on you.. I will be sending you 3 ghosts, Ghosts of your Dating Past, Present and Future.. Hear them carefully, see for yourself where does this path that you have taken leads you.. Ciao"

And the ghostly woman vanished..

The girl screamed again at the sight of the ghost just vanishing in thin air.. "What the fu.."

Scene 2

The girl, still a little confused, put her phone away and decides to sleep.. Just as she closed her eyes, she heard something.. She sprung up from her bed and looked at the Ghost of dating past standing beside her side table.. She was younger and fatter with a raw face and an innocent smile.. "Hi" she said..

"Hey, Hi" said the girl, greeting ghosts near felt so normal..

"So as you must have guessed I am the ghost of your Dating Past.. I am here to make to realize your mistakes, but only related to dating not your other mistakes, for your other mistakes you will have to see a therapist" said the ghost

"All..right" the girl said thinking that its not like I have any other plans right now

"Okay so shall we go?"

"Where"

"Nowhere, I will take your soul through 5 dimensional time and space tunnel & show you the past while your physical self remains right here..

"Okaayy, the ghost world is quite developed scientifically I would say" said the girl

"Yeah what do you think Einstein did after he died? Anyways lets see your past"

The ghost showed her the past.. She was locked in her room crying.. "why am I crying so much?" she asked the ghost..

"You are crying because you gained some weight and your career is headed nowhere" said the ghost

"Yeah I remember now, but does this have anything to do with dating?"

"This is the first time you started to feel that without a career and with some extra body weight you are pretty much useless; you hate yourself so much at this point that it will come back to haunt you more than any of us ghosts ever can.. You begin to feel like you don't deserve love until you get rid of the fat or do well in your life, no-one would come to even like you forget about love.."

"Well that's not true.. I was loved even with a crappy job and fat on my belly" the girl said quietly..

"Your sub-conscious self doesn't know this and is making decisions for you girl...

anyways that enough from me!"

"What? Enough? What do I do with this horrifying information that you gave me? My decisions are made by this weepy girl you hates herself" the girl said baffled but the ghost was gone and so was the 5-D space time tunnel

Scene 3

She was wide awake now, desperately waiting for the next ghost.. "Come on Ghost of Present, show up you turd"

"Relax I am coming" Came a voice from behind her bathroom door, "Hey you" Out came the ghost, she was older with shiny hair and a maturated face.. She had a few wrinkled lines like she knows a thing or two about life, a dash of experience that made her doubtful of the people around her..

"Lets see your present now"

They went into another time space tunnel and saw the present, the girl's present where she was sitting on the bed swiping on her smartphone through different apps.. She moved from app to app numbing her heart to her feelings and was just lost in a virtual world.. She saw herself talking to guys for hours on her phone; being cheerful, happy, opening up to the exact amount acceptable by her brain and then just never talk to them again blaming the dating culture, the society, men and Shakespeare for setting such unreal expectations for love.. Where are the butterflies everyone talks about? When will I feel it? The true love.. 

"What am I doing?"

"Wasting your time" said the ghost as she disappeared along with the vortex of visions she has been seeing..

Scene 4

The girl sat on the bed with a sunken heart and started thinking about everything that was happening around her.. actually thinking, the dating apps, the guys she talked to and how she never made an effort to actually know them after the first conversation, how she was just doing this to get rid of her loneliness and boredom..

Her chain of thoughts were broken by the final ghost, the ghost of future.. This ghost came with a cat, she was old and wrinkly, her lips were upside down like a permanent sad emoji. She looked at the girl with disgust as if she didn't want to participate in any of this..

"Ah.. lets go" said the ghost finally..

"NOO" said the girl, "I have seen enough and I got the point you all are trying to make, like Taylor Swift said, Its me, hi, I am the problem its me; 

I don't know what to do or how to take myself out of this spiral of bad luck of dating but I don't want to see my future"

"Uhh, its not a choice young lady, besides I wont get a good rating if I don't show you the future" said the ghost and as she was about to take her the girl stood up and opened the lights and curtains of her room and started screaming and running in her room..

The ghost of future couldn't take it anymore and she just vanished without showing her the future..

The woman with chain around her heart appeared again from the corner of the room, "what are you doing?"

"Oh you again, I get it" said the girl, "I get the point you all are trying to make that I should not be cynical about love and all, but you know what some of these guys I dated haven't been kind to me and gave me mixed signals because of which I don't know now what love is.. I once believed in true love, the love that Romeo and Juliet had, the cheesy romance showed in Bollywood movies but I found out in really heart breaking ways that this isn't how the real world works, people don't stay, they don't want to work through the hard times because leaving and finding someone else is a much easier.. So miss smarty pants ghost what do I do about that? How do I start believing again? How can I love myself and also hope to find love in this world where everybody is just looking for 'something casual' ?

"How would I know? I am just a ghost.. Go see a therapist" said the ghost woman with disinterest and vanished again leaving the girl alone with her phone and she started swiping again thinking that was heavy let me talk to someone to forget this!