Love, rational or irrational, is there really a difference? We must first define love itself. The word is mostly used according to the first definition given in the dictionary: “an intense feeling of deep affection.” In other words, love is what one feels. In the same way, we must now define rational and irrational. Rationality according to the dictionary: “by reasonable or logical means” and irrationality meaning the complete opposite. Now that we have a complete understanding of all the words we will be using, let's delve deeper. Love is something beautiful that you can feel, something that can break you and in some cases even blind you. You see through a narrow peep hole and at the other end, all you see is your loved one. Nobody tells
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As anyone would look forward on their futures, they see themselves graduating college, falling in love, walking down the wedding aisle and hearing church bells ring. Shortly after, a baby is on the way and you have a perfect family. It’s like an American dream. Irrational love can sometime seep in if you engulf yourself in something that isn’t meant to be. In the first Sex and the City movie, Carrie Bradshaw has fallen in love with a guy named Big and everything is perfect. They are a match made in heaven due to the fact that she is a fashion queen and he is rich. When the wedding day comes, Big doesn’t show up because he thought it was too crazy to get married so fast and Carrie gets stood up. He viewed the marriage as something he couldn’t handle and thought that he couldn’t make it work. They were only interested in the money that held each other up so high. Big wanted more to life than this, he knew Carrie just was falling in love with the thought of being married but her heart wasn’t in it. That type of love turns irrational, for we fall in love with just a dream.
Sometimes our wildest ideas can become bigger than us and blind us from our other dreams that we once thought were possible. These love stories are not how all fairy tales end though. I know love is something I have yet to feel when I am older. I think I have felt the sting and the piercing pain that follows but I
As anyone would look forward on their futures, they see themselves graduating college, falling in love, walking down the wedding aisle and hearing church bells ring. Shortly after, a baby is on the way and you have a perfect family. It’s like an American dream. Irrational love can sometime seep in if you engulf yourself in something that isn’t meant to be. In the first Sex and the City movie, Carrie Bradshaw has fallen in love with a guy named Big and everything is perfect. They are a match made in heaven due to the fact that she is a fashion queen and he is rich. When the wedding day comes, Big doesn’t show up because he thought it was too crazy to get married so fast and Carrie gets stood up. He viewed the marriage as something he couldn’t handle and thought that he couldn’t make it work. They were only interested in the money that held each other up so high. Big wanted more to life than this, he knew Carrie just was falling in love with the thought of being married but her heart wasn’t in it. That type of love turns irrational, for we fall in love with just a dream.
Sometimes our wildest ideas can become bigger than us and blind us from our other dreams that we once thought were possible. These love stories are not how all fairy tales end though. I know love is something I have yet to feel when I am older. I think I have felt the sting and the piercing pain that follows but I