Romance and all its tragedies

Do matters of the heart still matter in this period of too much rationalism and excessive materialism? Does romance, in all its varied forms and meanings, still have a place in our increasingly automated, power-driven existence? 

Man's humanity is inexorably diminished when the soul is badly dehydrated. A creature molded in the likeness of its Creator does not exhale granite and steel, iron and stone. In an ideal world, cold pertains to the climate, passive most probably refers to an inanimate object, distant is an area between two points, and indifferent is a God-forsaken word.