Lost in Love
Love is involuntary. Brain science tells us it is a drive like thirst. It is called attachment, and its part of the show in both romantic and all other kinds of love, including love within families. Babies form bonds with mother’s before they even enter the world. In making this comment, love is such a large model to only grasp one entity. One must be able to respect all living things and merge with the one true reality. Romantic love is seeing the whole part of it, the virtuous and immoral. Even if we focus our attention on a more specific feeling of love as love to our partner or so called romantic love still there are only bits of knowledge about it. Dating from times of Adam and Eve we attempt somehow to express this feeling, to express the thunderstorm of emotions that overpower us being in love, and to unite features of this extremely assorted state that each human experiences at different phases of his or her life in a general formula. Philosophy, science, and religion all have a say in what love is. But what does it all mean? Love has become one of the crucial points of …show more content…
People have to see the importance of projecting the good of our shadows because those are the golden qualities that we need to show. Johnson himself writes, “We forget that in falling in love, we must also come to terms with what we find annoying and distasteful –even downright intolerable—in the other and also in ourselves” (64). In other words, Johnson believes one cannot see one thing and not the other. One must look at another as well as themselves realistically. Johnson complicates matters further when he writes,” Though no one notices at the time, in-love-ness obliterates the humanity of the beloved” (63). People want sensual pleasure and avoidance of pain, but the exclusive pursuit of pleasure always leads to
Love is involuntary. Brain science tells us it is a drive like thirst. It is called attachment, and its part of the show in both romantic and all other kinds of love, including love within families. Babies form bonds with mother’s before they even enter the world. In making this comment, love is such a large model to only grasp one entity. One must be able to respect all living things and merge with the one true reality. Romantic love is seeing the whole part of it, the virtuous and immoral. Even if we focus our attention on a more specific feeling of love as love to our partner or so called romantic love still there are only bits of knowledge about it. Dating from times of Adam and Eve we attempt somehow to express this feeling, to express the thunderstorm of emotions that overpower us being in love, and to unite features of this extremely assorted state that each human experiences at different phases of his or her life in a general formula. Philosophy, science, and religion all have a say in what love is. But what does it all mean? Love has become one of the crucial points of …show more content…
People have to see the importance of projecting the good of our shadows because those are the golden qualities that we need to show. Johnson himself writes, “We forget that in falling in love, we must also come to terms with what we find annoying and distasteful –even downright intolerable—in the other and also in ourselves” (64). In other words, Johnson believes one cannot see one thing and not the other. One must look at another as well as themselves realistically. Johnson complicates matters further when he writes,” Though no one notices at the time, in-love-ness obliterates the humanity of the beloved” (63). People want sensual pleasure and avoidance of pain, but the exclusive pursuit of pleasure always leads to