Life And Love In Barbara Frederickson's View Of Love

Throughout Barbara Frederickson’s Love 2.0, new ways to think and feel about life and love are proposed to the reader. She delves in on love as it relates to us physically and cognitively. Personally, I have always carried the belief that without love, we are not truly alive and thriving, but are instead barely surviving. But when I say love, I’m not talking about the strong love you would feel for a significant other, the filial love between a mother and child, or even that strong love a dog feels for its owner. Instead, I am referring to the smaller instances of love felt within things and moments, the joy felt when just having a cup of coffee with friends, or just laying down on the beach, or just sitting and appreciating nature. While these do not match up with society’s preconceived notions of love having to be such a strong and powerful feeling, I believe that life is truly incomplete without these things. When you live life without the little moments of fleeting love, you are living a deprived life, as if you were missing food or shelter. You can still …show more content…
I propose that no play would be complete without drama and small details, just as life is incomplete without the drama of love and little things to like. She also continues with, “Only with this sort of X-Ray could you decide whether love is better described as a solo act… or a duet or ensemble, performed by a duo or group.” (Frederickson 110). The small things in life are all part of this ensemble, and just like a performance, every background dancer makes a performance better. After all, would a musical number really be memorable if it was a solo act? In the same vein, is life really complete without all the little things that you otherwise wouldn’t even think twice