Love
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Dismissed this thread initially, but then I got to thinking. Because I hadn't been previously.
I think love is special because it's both exclusive and temporary. If every single person on the planet had the kind of love outlined in this thread, it would be just another every-day part of life. Instead, we're all fully aware of the fact that a significant portion of the population doesn't have it - and a number of these probably never will. Further, we all know that love can be torn from us, irrevocably, by death or betrayal at a moment's notice. That sort of impermanence forces you to live in the moment, intensifying your feelings.
So to sum up: when you look around and see a lot of people without love, or a lot of people who've lost it, you can't help but intensely appreciate it when you've got it.
Also, there's some nagging idea, way in the back of my mind, that recognition of yourself in another reinforces basic existential concepts, which frequently have limited grounding outside of one's own mind.
I think love is special because it's both exclusive and temporary. If every single person on the planet had the kind of love outlined in this thread, it would be just another every-day part of life. Instead, we're all fully aware of the fact that a significant portion of the population doesn't have it - and a number of these probably never will. Further, we all know that love can be torn from us, irrevocably, by death or betrayal at a moment's notice. That sort of impermanence forces you to live in the moment, intensifying your feelings.
So to sum up: when you look around and see a lot of people without love, or a lot of people who've lost it, you can't help but intensely appreciate it when you've got it.
Also, there's some nagging idea, way in the back of my mind, that recognition of yourself in another reinforces basic existential concepts, which frequently have limited grounding outside of one's own mind.
Even love, the intangible feeling that can't be explained, is just chemicals in the brain flowing to certain places at the right times.
Although, that's why they say you have "chemistry" with other people. Chemicals need to have reason to flow, and that reason is the real intangible, unexplainable phenomenon.
Although, that's why they say you have "chemistry" with other people. Chemicals need to have reason to flow, and that reason is the real intangible, unexplainable phenomenon.
Define lust.jakeEHTlovless said:
Physical intimacy between partners can be a deeply fulfilling experience and expression of love for each other.
Trying to shag anything with a heartbeat is lust, wanting to run off upstairs with your partner at a moment's notice is hardly in the same ballpark.
If life's taught me anything it's that love is pain, but never a waste of time.
love is an oath to someone you treasure, that you will make them happy and be with them from now to "the end", that you will do everything in your power to keep them safe and away from harm without regard for anyone else or yourself, that they are your world and the laws of this world mean nothing when it comes to saving them
This has to be the most repeated thread in Escapist history.
I don't know if that's a bad thing or a good thing.
I don't know if that's a bad thing or a good thing.
I have come to the conclusion that love is just a glorified way of saying, "I'd like to have sex with you, but I am also attracted to you as a person."
Either that, or it just doesn't work properly for me, because it always screws me over.
Either that, or it just doesn't work properly for me, because it always screws me over.
