Love is crazy, its one of the most crazy things we humans take part in. It dives people to the edge and back, but in a lot of cases it seems people do not come back from the edge. A lost love or stolen love can utterly destroy someone's life. By becoming consumed by the loss of love in their life, it turns into an unbreakable obsession. Not every love has that kind of power to it though, it is rare I think for a love like that to come around. The most common kind of love I believe is that of family. The bonds of family are some of the strongest bonds out there. Next is the love of someone your in a relationship with. Lastly is the love that seams to drown out the rest of the world except of that special someone.
The most important and one of the most powerful love is that one has with their family. Even if your dirt pore, have no job and seemingly alone, you can always rely one your families love and support. Over time the strength and meaning of loving one's family has altered. Used to be if someone insulted your house or family member you would kill them, in a duel or start a feud. That person had threatened that what protects and loves you. So you must eliminate that threat. But not to many people seam to go to those extreme anymore to protect their family loved ones. Now a days the threats that need warding off are lack of housing, lack of food or job and those can be solved without killing others.
Next kind of love is that which brings some to matrimony or just gets two people hitched. It seams to be pretty common, but what is more common than that is the number of people divorced. So I do not think it is a very strong love, but it is quite a binding love. This kind of love was originally never to actually be about love. Was just a predetermined contract your parents would set up, as a land deal or keep a treaty. Not to bring too love birds together "for ever". But of course once and a while there is love that is true and unbreakable. The kind of love that has brain washed many girls form corny chick flicks like the note book, lucky one, safe haven ect. They think that this is the standard of all love. Just like how porn has brain washed guys about sex. We talked about this in class, it was pretty funny and true. But never the less I do think once and a while a love like that comes along.
Excellent post, I genuinely love your first paragraph and the amount of heart that you put into it, it felt like you were truly writing from the heart instead of doing a class assignment. The rest is good too, I like how you got into the historical part of love when it came to a persons family and their unconditional love for them. I also appreciate how you went into how the modern day perception of love has been altered by external factors like "chick flicks" and porn.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the first paragraph in that love makes people do crazy things. The second paragraph is also something that have always believed in. I have a big family and I always know that i can trust them because of the family connection.
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