"Love is in the air": So Is Heartbreak
Roses Delivery. From poetry and songs, to movies and novels; love is the most enduring genre of them all.
It's the subject of art for ages and it is art with emotion when put into a rose.
History and culture across the 192 countries of the world, show to have one thing in common; love.
At LIMUN, it's not been hard to find love.
Many of our delegates purchased roses and many of them received, whilst some of them reciprocated, most enjoyed and seldom just fell to the pits of hopeless romanticism.
Delegates not only shared love with lovers, but also to friends, compadres and strangers. Love was in the air, in the hearts of many and in their way of debate.
We, the press team, saw a clear change in everyone's emotion once they received the roses and we saw the clear distaste in people who didn't.
Many of the delegates receiving the roses, expressed their gratitude with showers of compliments to the giver and self-validating comments like "orgasmic", "doubly orgasmic", "triply orgasmic" -HSC President.
Now, the ones who found love. Like the lady with 3 roses, Sudan from Arab League, actually found love first at LIMUN 2021 where she met the love of her life and came back with him to LIMUN 2022. She commented on how she found her LIMUN love and how this roses ceremony brought them closer together. That’s something you could sell to Disney!
Many others were asked how they felt not getting a rose. Some had tasteful answers, like the delegate of Yemen in Arab League, proudly declaring his stance on the world and making a mark at the roses delivery ceremony, “I don't need validation, I don't want a rose, I am my only lover and I am proud of it. I do not expect a rose and I don't want it, I am the love of my life and I love myself” (this was repeated to the press team twice. His eyes under the mask were hooded with sadness and despair looking forward to a most destitute lonely rest of the weekend).
Some of the others were not so self-loving, however, and they made their hopelessness and grief evident (look out for the hopeless romantics list and give someone a rose). When we asked the UNEP and WHO chairs how they felt in their rose-less life, they shared her feelings of “hopelessness" and "disappointment.” In SOCHUM, delegates commented on how they were nerve racked when the rose delivery came into their committee. An innate sense of FOMO filled their guts, as they told us that they love the spreading of love, but they do wish that they were the ones receiving. Some held onto hopes and told us that "all hopes are not lost when we have a day left" and they wish "to give and not to receive".
Whilst the day ended with much to look forward to, and much to be sad about, love rose to the air as conference members look forward to another final day of love and friendship.
To Day 3 of LIMUN Love 🍸
By Fasih Rehman
