FogSage
Red August
FogSage
Only people who teach commitment in a relationship are probably religious types. The rest of the population teach their kids about marriages gone wrong, about Jerry Springer-esque romances that ended when Daddy found out he was gay, about divorce, about alimony, about custody battles.
We're teaching our kids that love is dangerous, that it's dangerous to get close, to fall in love, because there's so much to lose.
We're teaching our kids that love is dangerous, that it's dangerous to get close, to fall in love, because there's so much to lose.
Commitment isn't fun. That's what it boils down to; it involves doing things for this one person that you would never do for anyone else for an extensive period of time, possibly without end. Why would ANYONE want to be in a committed relationship when they could be single and hitting the clubs (and to home after) with a different man or woman on their arm every couple nights? The answer is because people want to be social and they want to have mates; they want a fine mixture of spontaneity and permanence. Despite there being a lot of anti-social people out there, I'll tell you right now that it's all an act. I'm as introverted as all get out but if someone will give me the time of day (provided they're not a complete idiot), I'll talk.....not much, but I'll talk.
Because acting like a randy dog is not spiritually meaningful in any way, while engaging in a communion of shared affection, attachment and respect... really is.
It's like saying, "Why would you ever use cocaine if you could eat candy?" Well, candy is nice, but it doesn't get those old dopaminergic neurons up in the nucleus accumbens banging away so much (unless you really, really love candy). But coke does. So does love.
Rainey - I thought you were saying you just gained 100,000 grams in weight. I was thinking, "Oh god, she's on some kind of medication and it's going to kill her." >_<