Perhaps routines such as love are much like our daily lives, we continue on each day, and wake up each morning in hopes that we might find a glimpse of happiness. This glimspe is such that it fulfills our need for it until the next time a moment happens to occur. Love, similarly, is much the same. Each wonderful moment with that special someone is like these glimpses, though they are not always frequent, when they do happen to transpire they tide over the minds need for a while until another becomes essential. It is not feasible, in my opinion, for two people to have these moments consecutively and neverending without these intermissions in our relationships with people, simply because if we did not experience anger, sadness and depression, how could we ever learn to discover happiness without an adverse emotion with which to compare it to. "One cannot possibly appreciate the greatness of love without aquainting oneself with the devastation of tragedy." I just happened to come across your post and it triggered a thought.
it always ends up as splitting hairs, but i never thought that love existed only to juxtapose hate and good with bad and the like. i think that these emotions that seem to counter love actually exist in spite of it, and on top of it. i guess there's this persistent romantic side that thinks we just cover up our ability to love during the bad times. it's always there we just forget about it while we get caught up in this daily life you speak of.
i do agree with you wholeheartedly though in that one regard that we continue on each day. i've considered this many times recently while plaguing myself with a decision....don't allow it to be a cop out, but allow the day to pass. it will pass. get through the day, the week, the years, and you'll be older and happier. be hopeful, not perfect. my thoughts.
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anonymous
April 24 2005, 02:21:54 UTC
yes doing new things will fight it...science is the only answer. We will never accept that though because we seem to be somehow inherently idealistic [as humans]. I suppose it is adaptive to keep this idealism even if it's really a deception. If we didn't keep it I think almost everyone would be committing suicide. (Right now it's only about 12 per 100,000 people)...
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It is not feasible, in my opinion, for two people to have these moments consecutively and neverending without these intermissions in our relationships with people, simply because if we did not experience anger, sadness and depression, how could we ever learn to discover happiness without an adverse emotion with which to compare it to. "One cannot possibly appreciate the greatness of love without aquainting oneself with the devastation of tragedy."
I just happened to come across your post and it triggered a thought.
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i do agree with you wholeheartedly though in that one regard that we continue on each day. i've considered this many times recently while plaguing myself with a decision....don't allow it to be a cop out, but allow the day to pass. it will pass. get through the day, the week, the years, and you'll be older and happier. be hopeful, not perfect. my thoughts.
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