Everything Grows With Love
I see a great deal of danger in the idealization of Love.
"All you need is love"
"Love will find a way"
"Love conquers all"
...and my personal hypocracy, stitched in needlepoint and hanging on my bedroom wall, gift from a friend who I recently fell out with..."Everything grows with love."
All too often I see myself and my friends latching onto these catch-phrase ideals and using them to justify relationships that don't work. Love is superb...but I don't know...maybe...
"All you need is Therapy"?
"Good Judgement will find a workable way"?
"Honesty conquers all"?
"Everything worth growing, grows with balance and proper care"?
Years ago my friend's younger brother...who was truly a bafoon...said that romantic comedies which glorify the classic Hollywood love stories should be criminalized, for giving women expectations of men and relationships that are simply unrealistic.
I think the bafoon was onto something.
It can't be all about Love. At least, not romantic love. Not love for one other person. I know people who love each other and beat the shit out of each other as well. Is that truly all they need? Love? I'd have to say love is working against these folks.
Food for thought.
"All you need is love"
"Love will find a way"
"Love conquers all"
...and my personal hypocracy, stitched in needlepoint and hanging on my bedroom wall, gift from a friend who I recently fell out with..."Everything grows with love."
All too often I see myself and my friends latching onto these catch-phrase ideals and using them to justify relationships that don't work. Love is superb...but I don't know...maybe...
"All you need is Therapy"?
"Good Judgement will find a workable way"?
"Honesty conquers all"?
"Everything worth growing, grows with balance and proper care"?
Years ago my friend's younger brother...who was truly a bafoon...said that romantic comedies which glorify the classic Hollywood love stories should be criminalized, for giving women expectations of men and relationships that are simply unrealistic.
I think the bafoon was onto something.
It can't be all about Love. At least, not romantic love. Not love for one other person. I know people who love each other and beat the shit out of each other as well. Is that truly all they need? Love? I'd have to say love is working against these folks.
Food for thought.
posted by Lovely Lady Grace at 11:17 AM
1 Comments:
sad SORRY love story
horribly overzealous?
yes, without a chance in hell.
linked to my humiliation.
when will my karma balance out?
when will I be ready for something real?
when will I no longer be coin-operated
but rather a respected, legitimate
partner?
the look over your shoulder was more dreary
than the morning that took you away.
"superb, maybe, but you're not the one"
it murmured.
"sexy, mostly, but you're just filler"
she screamed.
but I would absorb the world for this one.
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