Tuesday, March 23, 2010

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b. Just because experience of loving someone can hurt us emotionally, is the emotional pain itself just a matter of coincidence or is it a special sign that the experience is more vital in some way? Perhaps another way of looking at the question: is the experience significant because we feel pain or do we feel pain because the experience is significant?

Eotional pain is alost always attached to love in soeway or another. Although many relationships occur and end without having that end result of emotional pain I believe that we know a relationship to be emotionaly painful because the relationship is important to us. The other side of the argument is that a relationship is significant because of the pain. Although pain does relate to significance I dont think they go in that order. This idea is saying that a relationship is only valid because we feel eotional pain, but when thinking about roamantic relationships I believe that they shouldnt be viewed that way.

Relationships are significant when the desire to be with another is so strong that they miss them at times etc, but this feeling is because of they strong bond and connection between the two people, the eotional pain itself doesnt make the relationship. Love makes the relationship and that is the concept that should be emphasized, the pain is due to the love. If pain makes you realize you love the other person then the love is still the thing making the relationship significant, not the pain. Pain and love go hand in hand yet pain comes from a significant relationship not the other way around.

1 comment:

  1. Interesting view of the situation, Jake. You seem to suggest that it a "strong bond and connection between the two people" that makes love significant, not the pain. But think about it...how do you know you have a strong bond and connection with someone? Isn't the proof in the fact that you fear to lose that someone and that connection?

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