What is love?

Skyla 2021-12-15 08:01:10

Unhealthy love: Desire to get attention and happiness from the other person (care, obedience, praise, caress, sex...) to fill up the emptiness in oneself. Such love is like an addiction to drugs. Once the medicine provided by the other party is insufficient, we will fall back into our own sense of emptiness, and worse, we will blame the other party for our own sense of emptiness. This kind of love, in fact, we still love ourselves.

Healthy love: Both parties are partners who explore life together. Life, life itself is beautiful and abundance, but this beauty and abundance are often overlooked and forgotten by us. People who truly love each other will work together to rediscover the beauty in life, point out the beauty they see to each other, and share their perception of beauty with each other. This kind of love is actually two people discovering love together.

To be able to love each other healthily, two people in love must first be able to love life independently. Otherwise, how can a person who is blind to beauty and love explore the beauty in life with his lover? The heroine (also the author) began to reflect on herself after experiencing many emotional and marriage failures. She traveled for a year. Whether she went to Italy, India, or Bali, she actually only did one thing-to love life independently. When she finally did it, it was also the moment when a new healthy love began.

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Eat Pray Love quotes

  • Luca Spaghetti: Americans know entertainment, but they don't know pleasure.

  • Liz Gilbert: I did love you, Stephen.

    Stephen: I know. But I still love you.

    Liz Gilbert: So, love me.

    Stephen: But I miss you.

    Liz Gilbert: So, miss me. Send me love and light every time you think of me... Then drop it. It won't last forever. Nothing does.