Have you ever experienced falling in love with someone wherein you eventually doubt your feelings with the person you are in love with, to an extent of you start interrogating yourself if you are in love with the person or just in love with the feeling? In the modern world we are currently facing today, it is cliché to have love and infatuation differentiated. In most comparisons, according to Rohan Felix (2016), infatuation is treated as a risky and hazardous phenomenon, whereas love is manifested to be healthy. These two broad concepts are both intense emotions and feelings in which most of the people are often confused by it; however, they only differ in the actuality of love, intensity, and final outcome that affect an individual’s life (Diffen LLC, 2017). Now, the fundamental question that needs to be asked; however, it often remains to be unanswered – is the love you feel is a real love or is it just an infatuation? This question is way to hard to answer for most people who are blinded in the world of romantic love wherein they think it is already love but it is actually not.
Nowadays, people of all ages can become mixed up between infatuation and love. Our modern world has confused love with infatuation. Think about that almost every time people hear the word love referenced in poplar culture, it is something they fall into unexpectedly and accidentally (Lallier, 2010). With that being said, knowing the comparison and contrast of these two concepts is easy; however,
(Doc C). Essentially stating that love is an emotion so strong that people lose self-control and patience when it comes to their partner. Love isn’t something that can necessarily be forgotten or easily overcome. When a person falls in love at a young age, their significant other may even start to become their reason to wake up every morning. It’s impossible to get your mind off them and you grow such a strong connection with them, which is what happened with Romeo and Juliet.
To conclude, there are many ways that these two are similar and different , depending on how you look at it, but these are the similarities and differences in my
Love is a natural feeling that causes humans to do crazy and irrational things. For instance, in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the two main characters’ obsessive love for each other is the main cause of their downfall. Romeo, however, indulges in his passion much differently than Juliet. In the balcony scene in Act II, scene ii, of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is shown to be impulsive and immature. This is made clear in Romeo’s attitude toward love and his reactions to dangerous situations.
While people are often able to identify when they feel the emotion love, love itself seems to defy definition. In her essay “Against Love”, Laura Kipnis argues that love cannot exist within the social forms associated with love, such as marriage, monogamy, mutuality, and domesticity. However, in her argument, she fails to offer her definition of love and does not identify love as an emotion.
Love is something important. It’s the cause of life, death, and everything in between. It’s the reason that urges some people to get out of bed in the morning. Whether it’s head over heels, or just a short-lived crush, love is beautiful. However, a multitude of people corrupt the view of love with lust, a feeling based wholly on appearance.
“The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring,"(Oscar Wilde). Just thinking about love can brighten a person’s day. This is well portrayed in Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, and often uses allusions to highlight love and its effects. There are also many other allusions that do not involve love in a positive way, including Romeo’s unreturned love and Mercutio’s continuous mockery of love.
Infatuation usually occurs at the beginning of relationship when sexual attraction is central, while love can be described as feeling of intense affection for another person. It is most often talked about as an emotion between two people, hence is also sometimes referred to as interpersonal love. Infatuation feels like all-consuming euphoria similar to recreational drug use (addictive chemical reactions in the brain), and results in emptiness, and consequences of choices made while under the influence of mind numbing temporary lust. Now, love feels like a deep affection, filled with with contentment and confidence, which results in security, peace, and a solid partnership. In love, partners communicate and negotiate an appropriate expectation, which requires plenty of selflessness and polite assertiveness.
Alan Watts once said, “Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.” (brainyquotes.com). Watts is saying that we can't just say that we love someone, we have to feel our heart swell with the love we have for that person. In William Shakespeare's, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet are not truly in love because they automatically fall ‘in love’ after seeing each other once, they decide to get married a few hours after they meet and they are too immature to actually know what love is .
One reason Romeo and Juliet are not truly in love is that they fell in love right after they meet (lust at first sight).
There is a question that has been asked over and over again without an exact answer. There have been countless different answers to this question that all have been correct in their own way. What is love and how do we know it’s true? This is the question that has brought a plethora of controversy between people. The reason why love is such a complex subject is because there is so many ways to love.
What is love? Everybody has his/her own understanding and definition of love. In
order to better understand all the complexity of such a phenomenon, it is worth analyzing
specific scenarios. Therefore, this paper concentrates on one of such scenarios, which, in fact,
is one from my personal experience.
I had been in a long-distance relationship that had lasted a little over a year.
Love: An endless supply of happiness and dopamine
I’ll never forget the time I met my girlfriend. I was at my best friend’s birthday party, when a tall beautiful girl with wavy brown hair and the clearest complexion, her face full of happiness and joy. The moment I saw her, was the moment I knew that I had powerful feelings for her. It was amazing actually…feelings began to swell in brain, lust, compassion, affection, adoration, racing through my mind. That would be the day that I would began to fall for Alex.
