Journal No. 034
A risk analyst for the Are They The OneTM mobile dating application, the writer casts himself as a modern age Cupid, aiding others in the pursuit of love, but paying little attention to his own.
Journal No. 034: Within the pages of Journal No. 034 is captured a yearning for an analog romance in the digital age, a questioning of the world around us, and an exploration of debilitating self-doubt.
A risk analyst for the Are They The OneTM mobile dating application, the writer casts himself as a modern age Cupid, aiding others in the pursuit of love, but paying little attention to his own. That is until one Thursday night, while on the train home from the office, he stumbles on a missed connection and a token left behind in its wake. Intrigued by this chance event, he develops a compulsion to discover its owner’s identity and putting the skills of his day job to work to solve this mystery.As he dives head-first into this search, the pages of his journal become flooded with an uneasy obsession to discover as much information about this individual as he can.
Journal No. 034, which holds careful records and thoughts of the world around its writer, becomes a manifestation of how far from reality a mind can spin. Its pages struggling with just how much must be sacrificed for a shot at true love.The tables take a turn however, when we find the writer’s own heart involved in the investigation at hand. He is forced to face the indecision that has held him back in the past and how he will handle what may become just one large chain of missed opportunity and destruction.
