Love is defined in many ways. Love is used to express emotions, feelings and affections. Romantic novels and movies romanticize what love is, and many people tend to be confused or create made up reality about what love really means. When people feel loved, many give value and recognize love as something that is great and true. In order to understand what love really is, there are three different words to describe the types of love: Eros, Phileo and Agape. Eros is used to describe a physical attraction to one another and sensual love people feel towards someone. Phileo is used to describe the love for our family, friends, and companions while Agape, is commonly known as, the unconditional love. Love is not only defined by its manner rather
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Eros seeks for boundless beauty, particularly the pleasing image of an individual that makes them remarkable or worth remembering for someone. Dissatisfaction made people generate standards for beauty and easily attracted by the elegant so-called “beauty” figure in front of them. Although Eros makes someone feels he or she is experiencing cloud nine, a state of total euphoria, it cannot provide an unfailing basis for making up to a deep and meaningful relationship since it is unpredictable and dependent upon impressions and chances. For example, the relationship between couples, at first couples will be attracted to each other because of the set standards that they made for their ideal partner. Romantic gestures will naturally come out and expecting for more nostalgic stage in a relationship will come along. Sometimes that honeymoon stage will last but there are also instances that eventually this feeling will end for some reasons, like falling out of love. Eros really gladdens and makes people happy but it is not the Biblical word used for …show more content…
In contrast with Eros, Phileo is the companionable love or love for friends. People must be adaptive in the society meaning there is a need to live in harmony with others in order to survive. One of its traits is the willingness to share while someone also needs a consistent relationship. Doing kindness without asking for any return and making a task or favor for someone not proclaiming or bragging it apprehends true friendship. It is also said that the best characters follow the best friendship and hence love. However, some friendships and doing an act of kindess goes with a situation wherein it tends to be selfish and profit seeking. For an instance, a close friend needs money for hospital bills, a friend who has this Phileo type of love will help with willingness without asking or expecting something back from them, but sometimes being drowned by gratitude can start a conflict within friendship. The other one cannot decline because his or her friend had helped him even though he knows that the favor he or she is asking from him is not good. Despite other situations similar to that, if one’s friendship is really important for the both of them then personal interest must not
Eros seeks for boundless beauty, particularly the pleasing image of an individual that makes them remarkable or worth remembering for someone. Dissatisfaction made people generate standards for beauty and easily attracted by the elegant so-called “beauty” figure in front of them. Although Eros makes someone feels he or she is experiencing cloud nine, a state of total euphoria, it cannot provide an unfailing basis for making up to a deep and meaningful relationship since it is unpredictable and dependent upon impressions and chances. For example, the relationship between couples, at first couples will be attracted to each other because of the set standards that they made for their ideal partner. Romantic gestures will naturally come out and expecting for more nostalgic stage in a relationship will come along. Sometimes that honeymoon stage will last but there are also instances that eventually this feeling will end for some reasons, like falling out of love. Eros really gladdens and makes people happy but it is not the Biblical word used for …show more content…
In contrast with Eros, Phileo is the companionable love or love for friends. People must be adaptive in the society meaning there is a need to live in harmony with others in order to survive. One of its traits is the willingness to share while someone also needs a consistent relationship. Doing kindness without asking for any return and making a task or favor for someone not proclaiming or bragging it apprehends true friendship. It is also said that the best characters follow the best friendship and hence love. However, some friendships and doing an act of kindess goes with a situation wherein it tends to be selfish and profit seeking. For an instance, a close friend needs money for hospital bills, a friend who has this Phileo type of love will help with willingness without asking or expecting something back from them, but sometimes being drowned by gratitude can start a conflict within friendship. The other one cannot decline because his or her friend had helped him even though he knows that the favor he or she is asking from him is not good. Despite other situations similar to that, if one’s friendship is really important for the both of them then personal interest must not