I think that both the experience of loving someone is significant because we feel pain and we feel pain because the experience is significant.
Loving someone is significant in our lives because we feel pain. This other person is very important in their life and if they leave or something happens to part the couple, then one will definitley feel pain. Being so attached to something and then just loosing it is really hard. Something in your life is missing and you will feel pain from it which will make the experience significant. But we also feel pain because the experience is significant. Society is made to think that falling in love is a huge deal and that being heartbroken is a tragedy that few recover from. The experience of love is significant because of all the fuss about it. The media has us thinking that it is the biggest and greatest experience of our lives and so when we loose it, we feel pain because it is so significant. The emotional pain of loving someone is not a coincidence. The experience is definitely somewhat vital. Being around someone for so long and having so many feelings for them is emotional and the pain isn't fake. Although it may be overdone because of how society makes us believe that love is everything, it is still real, and not a coincidence.
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I like how you introduced both sides of the argument because without a doubt, both sides can be argued. Additionally, I agree that the media does portray love as this wonderful, beuatiful thing that we should lament losing.
ReplyDeleteYou raise some good points, but dig a little deeper. I'm still wondering if, were it not for the pain of loss, love would be all that big a deal? In other words, can you even know you're in love w/o the pain part? This seems to be missing from the modern idea of true love, which holds that love is wonderful (pain free). Shouldn't we go into love with the knowledge that it's the pain we feel that makes it real?
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