Why

[wickywoo]

do I see Lauren and I in every piece of art I see? Not even just in art - in television (I'm currently obsessed with Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and there's a bickering couple who can't get over each other), in literature (see my last entry), in other people's relationships? What is it about us that makes us so relevant? What is it about me

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[astrafiammante]

Because that's what love does to us. We can think of and want nothing else but that person. A selfish notion, yet somehow paradoxical, since we only also want to give our whole selves to that person.

And somehow the juxtaposition of those two contrary ideas in one emotion leads me to believe that it cannot actually exist.

But, I mean, that's just me. And who am I? A girl who's dating one guy and in love with another.

[_littlestranger]

I don't think it's about love at all. It's just about the fact that you see things and try to relate them to your own life. As much as we want to think that our relationships are unique, they're mostly very similar to other people's, and that's why you see your own experience in literature and culture and in other people's relationships, because whoever wrote it had a relationship or witnessed one that was similar. And even if it's not quite the same you try to relate to it and bend it so you can find an element that fits. Everyone does it. It's human nature.