Analysis

[urza9995]

For a long time, I considered myself a romantic, but recent thinking has been making me reconsider this notion. You see, my long-held idea of romance, whether I was aware of it or not, was entirely selfish; based solely on need: the needed to be needed, the needed to make someone feel happy and loved, the need to share myself completely with

Comments

[anonymous]

I think it's good to question your instincts, and it helps if you don't end up loathing them. I don't think it has to be a whole nihilist thing. It's true that there is no true altruism, and that's ok because what we have is close enough. Our brains make us feel meaningful relationships so that we will have useful cooperative companions. I think that normally, knowing that is not enough to make one stop feeling love. I could see how that might happen if you had concluded that love has no meaning because it is your brain tricking you. However, everything you perceive in existence is created and shown to "you," whatever that means, by your brain. It's all a trick. Meaning is what you make of it. You probably are set in thinking patterns that would be extremely difficult to break out of without some kind of help, but that would require trusting someone else.... That is a tough one, good luck. I mean that.

[anonymous]

Can I use your body to please myself?