Where does love come from? This feeling we have deep down inside this innate desire to find someone that completes you.. the feeling of being whole with someone. Love is a tricky subject and anyone that tells you different has never felt it. But what i was thinking today as i read "the symposium" by Plato for my literature class was where did it really come from? in one of the speeches told in the book a wise man told a tale about ancient greece and greek mythology. He told a story of what we once were.
In Greek Mythology we were once all attached, we were paired off and were attached by the backs to our partners. There were three types of pairs, girls, boys, and transvestites. We inhabited earth this way and we never knew love, because we never knew longing, we never knew what it felt like to not be whole, we never knew what it was like to not have our partners. The Gods grew jealous of us, they longed to be whole as we were, forever attached to our partners. So the gods decided to punish us.. they decided to split us, right down the middle and to separate us .. punishing us to a life without our other half. The girls who were attached were separated, representing the lesbians, the boys represented the gays, and the transvestites represent the straight people. All punished the same way .. the lose of their partner. Banished to a life of not being whole... thus learning loneliness, longing to be whole, and most of all loved.
How is it that we need pain to experience pleasure?.. without sadness there would be no meaning to happiness... without longing there would be no love... The gods split us so we could feel love .. so we could search for our other half .. so we could learn the agony of not being whole. Agony breeds contempt .. There is a yin and yang to it all .. we can not have one without the other .. so what is worst love without knowing how truly happy you are .. or suffering with the future of that much happiness?
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