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Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Some thoughts
It is considered shallow to love someone for their appearance because looks fade.
Why then is it not also considered shallow to love someone for their intellect which may fade through age or dementia?
Why then is it not also considered shallow to love someone for their personality which may change with the phases in their life: the happy-go-lucky child, the emotional teenager, the middle-aged workaholic, etc.?
I was once told you should love a person for their soul, but what assistance does this advice offer if the souls are compatible, but the bodies that contain them are not either because of the society that restricts them or the personalities they express themselves through?
Unconditional love may be proposed as the solution, but what good is this if love is given merely because it should be?
Is it then better to love because you have desire to do so, regardless of reciprocation or supposed validity of your reasons because the passion behind it purifies tainted reason and overshadows need for reciprocation?
What are the differentiating factors of love? We are told to love our neighbor, yet we search for that ‘someone.’ What is the difference between love of neighbor and love of a significant other? Is it the desire to procreate? If so, the only difference is the incorporation of an animal instinct, which is fairly discouraging. And if there is no difference, why do we spend so much time looking for that ‘someone’ when anyone will suffice? Why not just return to the days of arranged marriage? Or have we come to the point that shallowness and animal instinct have become default characteristics?
Is romantic love merely a novelty created by humans to justify their animalistic attractions, or does it actually exist, but as a rarity?
Why is it that teenaged humans feel the need to ‘date’? Is it hormone-induced madness? Is it desire for acceptance, a brief reprieve from the uncertainty of the high school hierarchy? Perhaps it is lemming-syndrome, the need to follow suit, interpreting dating as a right of passage, a step above playing house, and a step down from lifelong commitment.
Then again, who really stops to think about things like that? Have things like relationships become so commonplace that an analysis of motives is considered unnecessary? Why is it that people are so eager to question the motives of their partner, so willing to take the time to find a partner, but when it comes to questioning their own motives, there is less willingness to both discern motives and spend the time necessary to do so. This, to me, is unusual, hypocritical, and unfortunate.
If people are not willing to get to know themselves, either alone or through interaction with others, how can they expect another to exhibit a willingness to know them?
Happy Valentine's Day.
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