There's a lot about like confidence and opening and insecurities that I notice with love. I quite haven't figured out how to explain it but you did a pretty good job.
It's like there's something more though. It's like the other person is there and allows you to be different. I see myself change as a result of the person but most of the openness and all that comes from me. I find that my relationship with others change for the better too. Like being in love allows me to be a better person and be more open and honest with others. Maybe because I care less about what they think because I get my validation from myself and from my partner. Maybe it's something else.
You know, I think more importantly love is knowing what lies at the other end (relationship ending, death, hardships, etc.) and being completely comfortable with where you lie and what the future may or may not hold. I'm not sure if that's a symptom or a source of validation, but to address being a better person I think it's easy to view it in that light when love is (usually) an overwhelming positive emotion. The power and illusion and that go do wonders to a persons drive and ambition. Or tear them about.
I am interested in if thenewgreen still agrees with the last line of this comment? Sorry, it's almost two years old but I'm wondering if you still think that love is dangerous, and that there are many people who don't think it's worth it?
Entropy, it's a bitch.
All doors lead to loss, that's just the reality of things. The more you care about, the more you are putting yourself out there to get hurt. But the more you shutter yourself away from emotion, the more isolated and lonely you become.
Which hurt is better? The one that comes on the coattails of great joy or the one that is a constant and ever present weight, perhaps less acute, but none the less dark.
Sing me up for the joy/coattails
I'm always subscribed to Entropy Knows Best (future Dadstache Recs release)...
Greater risk, greater reward. I'm not a betting man but I think at this point I would go for the coattails over the alternative though I'm not sure how many people aren't doing so for reasons other than being afraid. This is also coming from someone who saw American Beauty for the first time last night, and aside from being annoyed for a lot of the movie saw a lot of characters who, despite their outward ambitions and appearances and ideals, only seemed to be looking for some sort of love. I think that can be the case of many people, even those that shy away from emotion.
- I think that can be the case of many people, even those that shy away from emotion.
I like Belle and Sebastians album title, "The Life Pursuit" -I think it's all about "love"
