Oh, uh, his boyfriend asked me not to.
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Love is NOT all you need. That is hipster BS. I wouldn’t even call love “essential.” Good health and a sense of justice are essential.
Love can be very nice. But it is always temporary.
Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.
It is nonsensical to assert that love isn’t real on the grounds that nothing is real. If nothing is real, why are you trying to convince other people that nothing is real?
If you really thought nothing mattered, why would you bother to do anything? You would care if you lived or died. So why do you care about convincing people that nothing matters?
If everything is meaningless, then meaninglessness itself is meaningless. We look around at the meaningless sky, earth, and human beings, and then shrug our shoulders and keep on keeping on, because why shouldn’t we?
Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
– Groucho Marx
[Crash Davis, Bull Durham]
I believe there oughta be a constitutional amendment outlawing AstroTurf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve. And I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
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I doubt I have experienced true love, closest thing I have found is providing security in exchange for sex. You can get by fine on this. I think after a while they do kind of grow to love you but by that time you are kind of fed up with them and no longer interested in something deeper. My happiest days were spent alone.
Not enough and you’re gonna die.
I’m kind of expecting something serious here.
It’s hard to view love as a powerful force for good when you see how many mistakes people make for it or because of it. I don’t even think the unconditional nature of it even exists the way people want it too. There is always a string attached, because we love traits that a person exhibits not really the person. That’s why the last bit about being in love with a concept seems to ring true.
I used to believe it was some ultimate good and positive force to strive for, but that seems more based on wishful thinking and less on it’s actual reality.
7.5 billion mistakes and counting …
But seriously … we start by loving ourselves, even the part we don’t like … then we can love others, again even the parts we don’t like … it’s not easy, one could spend a lifetime trying and still not love unconditionally …
Why do fools fall in love? Love is fleeting. Love is a cruel trick pulled by Mother Nature to inspire propagation of the species, Mother Nature doesn’t care if you’re happy or not. Love is something we think we see on tv and in movies. There is always always always one who loves and the other is the one who is loved. Love hurts, is disappointing, and does not make the world go around. As Frank Zappa once said about music lyrics supposedly influencing young folks, ‘if lyrics influenced us, most songs on the radio are about love, so why aren’t we all walking around aglow with love for others?’
happiness is overrated
You kind of got some not entirely serious but also seriously good responses.
"Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think on such things and the God of peace will be with you”
—(Philippians 4:8)
Think on it. Go wash your bowl.
What personal experience do you have with love? Mine is almost entirely positive, and one of the greatest parts of my life.
You see? Taken.
I love my family. They’re wonderful people and I’m happy due to them.
Happiness is a warm gun.
Happiness is five different crayons