True love has spiritual dimensions, while romantic love is a lie. A myth. A soulless manipulation.
And speaking of manipulation, it's like going to the movies and seeing the lovers kiss. The music swells, and we buy it, right? So when my date kisses me and l don't hear strings, l dump him.
The question is, why do we buy it? Because, myth or manipulation, we all want to fall in love. That experience makes us feel completely alive, where every sense is heightened and every emotion is magnified. Our everyday reality is shattered and we are flung into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour or an afternoon, but that doesn't diminish its value, because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives.
I read, ''When we fall in love, we hear Puccini in our heads.'' l love that. His music expresses our need for passion and romantic love. We listen to La Bóheme or Turandot, or read Wuthering Heights or watch Casablanca, and a little of that love lives in us too.
So the final question is, why do people want to fall in love when it can have such a short run and be so painful? Propagation of the species? We need to connect with somebody. Are we culturally pre-conditioned? Good, but too intellectual for me.
I think it's because, as some of you may already know .. While it does last, it feels fucking great.
~ Quote from The Mirror has Two Faces
And speaking of manipulation, it's like going to the movies and seeing the lovers kiss. The music swells, and we buy it, right? So when my date kisses me and l don't hear strings, l dump him.
The question is, why do we buy it? Because, myth or manipulation, we all want to fall in love. That experience makes us feel completely alive, where every sense is heightened and every emotion is magnified. Our everyday reality is shattered and we are flung into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour or an afternoon, but that doesn't diminish its value, because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives.
I read, ''When we fall in love, we hear Puccini in our heads.'' l love that. His music expresses our need for passion and romantic love. We listen to La Bóheme or Turandot, or read Wuthering Heights or watch Casablanca, and a little of that love lives in us too.
So the final question is, why do people want to fall in love when it can have such a short run and be so painful? Propagation of the species? We need to connect with somebody. Are we culturally pre-conditioned? Good, but too intellectual for me.
I think it's because, as some of you may already know .. While it does last, it feels fucking great.
~ Quote from The Mirror has Two Faces
1 comments:
Why do we want to FALL in love? Yaa, you are absolutely right. It does feel great to FALL in love.
That's why, even if we keep on FALLING.. again and again, we have never really "given up", no matter how bad we've been hurt..
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