One who assumes love is blind ignores the possibility that love may also be deaf, mute, lacking taste, sense or even to comprehend. One who assumes love is always these things, constantly feeling tension with one another, is also the ignoramus for they assume everything of love.
Love is neither the great force romantics adhere to, nor the cynical piñata bitter, entitled souls love to batter. Love simply is affection and pleasure, which can be explained by science, but also far out-reaches science. For love is a condition of being human, to wanting to be adored by another human, and there are varying categories for this behaviour.
There are, to date, around seven different kinds of love which are to be elaborated upon.
1. Chivalry, centered on unrealistic perspectives of the "soul" and promoting love as a matter of performance and chauvinism.
2. Romantic, which is what sonnets are designed to detail.
3. Unrequited, which often disappoints and insults us; "how could you not love me?!!" Can easily border into obsessions.
4. Obsessive and overly-sentimental love, which soon becomes a matter of danger over pleasure. The two may even over-arch.
5. Anti-lovers, who are merely a reactionary force. They try and compromise their failures of the past with shock-value hedonism and one night stands which secretly, in their hearts, are used as an excuse to find themselves a partner.
6. Realistic love, which recognises an individual's deception but trying to overcome this to feel genuine emotion for another.
7. A love that often crosses over into consensual yet still controversial bedroom practices. BDSM can be practiced by lovers, for example.
Of course, the author of this piece is possessed by the shackles of bias, but is surrounded by those who refuse to see theirs.
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Even if kind of short this work is amazing and I find it really disappointing that this has only several reviewers and readers.
So I think of just going ahead and telling you what I really think about this work in deep.
1.The tittle is good.It caught which in this moment was kind of hard because I was not in the mood to review whatever it is and it was no person's fault at all.But anyways,I am here.
2.The idea/plot.This is what I noticed as something I like also.It starts strongly and goes on smoothly which is good if you read it out loud like me.It starts with statement and your own thoughts(this is how understood it of course) and starts to explain about the idea of it all.
3.Your punctuation is on point which is always a good thing because the readers lose their interest if the work is written with a very poor grammar or bad punctuation mistakes.It just looks bad and ruins the whole vibes the work wants to give us.
4.I like the way you put the love styles/types in very different ranks and sections which shows love is not the same for every each person.Everything is seperated and understandable.Surely,they might be more kinds of love but the ones you had written about are choosen perfectly.To the ones who are romantic and in love with one person in their lifetime to others who night stands even if they want to be happy.
I do not think I had something else to say than good job and keep on writing.
Awww I love this! It is sad that not a lot of people have seen this.This is a really good preface that made me really think about what love really is. It's cool how you wrote it in 3rd person.
I can't wait until you write more. This is amazing.
I have noticed how you have a lot of constructive comments. So I want to share a nice and positive one stating everything I loved about your piece.
I like how you listed the seven types of love. I also like how you explained them. My advice on that one is to maybe tell which one the person being written about is going through. Or maybe giving examples of that type of love.
Alright so I got a bit of constructive stuff in there and I didn't write a lot but, right now I honestly don't have a lot of time to write. I hope you understand. I love your piece. Keep writing. Sorry that this review didn't give it justice.
I loved it
- Anne Throckmorton
Awww I love this! It is sad that not a lot of people have seen this.This is a really good preface that made me really think about what love really is. It's cool how you wrote it in 3rd person.
I can't wait until you write more. This is amazing.
I have noticed how you have a lot of constructive comments. So I want to share a nice and positive one stating everything I loved about your piece.
I like how you listed the seven types of love. I also like how you explained them. My advice on that one is to maybe tell which one the person being written about is going through. Or maybe giving examples of that type of love.
Alright so I got a bit of constructive stuff in there and I didn't write a lot but, right now I honestly don't have a lot of time to write. I hope you understand. I love your piece. Keep writing. Sorry that this review didn't give it justice.
I loved it
- Anne Throckmorton
This should be an interesting piece. Is it a non-fiction, or do you intend to have characters and stories involved in this? The ideology we see here could make a good storyline, but it could also make a good and long article. Let's see where it goes, shall we?
But for now, onto the review!
The thing about talking about emotions is that it's all a matter of perspective. For example, as an aromantic I don't believe love is too difficult to explain, mostly because I've never felt the romantic part of it. I will admit, I'm biased on that front, but then again who can look at reality with objective lenses? We can all agree that an apple is smooth and has a certain shape, but can we agree that it's sweet? Berkeley has argued that in all actuality none of us can describe an apple the same exact way even if it has a certain shape, because we can't imagine the apple in anybody else's eyes without thinking of it in our perspective. If I'm correct, he's even argued that we can't be sure that anything exists objectively, ie we don't know if everything around us exists or if it's just a figment of our imaginations, our subjectivity.
Darn it, I was talking about love, not apples and empiricism. Sorry. Disregard my rant.
Anyway, back to the topic. If you are aiming for a non-fiction work, I suggest you research a bit of the topic, if you haven't already. See what other people think--often they have lots of good points that you can also use to forward your argument. Of course, you mustn't forget to cite your source, so if you do decide to do that please don't leave the inspiration out.
As for the content, I can't say much without interjecting my own opinions. You wouldn't want that, would you? Regardless, I think that most of what you say is true, but maybe think about what you're saying on number five. What do you mean by anti-lovers? Are they people who are determined to sweep love away because of their scars? Or could they simply be people like asexuals or aromantics, who just don't understand sexual or romantic love? Think about what you're saying, as you could sink back into the stereotype that those two peoples are just "broken" and "need compromise for their failures". And then you say something about one night stands and the like, which is also a bit of a stretch. Sex and romance aren't directly linked, but since I think I understand what you're trying to say, it would be good to clarify a little bit as to not end up with unfortunate implications.
Otherwise, though, it's an interesting piece. Good job so far.
Signing out,
--EM.
Anti-lovers are those who write off love and are incredibly cynical, yet fall for its trap when they yearn for their one-off encounters to mean more.
As for the genre, in regards to it being fiction or non-fiction. It's neither. I would say it is within the realms of the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, so is philosophical and discusses issues but in a prose, almost poetic style.
This is a really good preface that made me really think about what love really is. It's cool how you wrote it in 3rd person. Are you going to write the rest of your story in 3rd person?
"Of course, the author of this piece is possessed by the shackles of bias, but is surrounded by those who refuse to see theirs."
I really liked this line. It makes it seem as if your narrator can see everything and anything that happens. As if he is an being somewhat like the Christian "God", and that he sees the author as separate from the rest of the human race.
I also like how you took a scientific look at love and separated it into different categories. Your vocabulary is well used, as it seems your narrator is a smart and well knowledgeable "thing". (I am confused. Is your narrator a person or a being? It seems like a being, but you have personified it. Please clear that up.)
I hope you keep working on this. It is very well written.
The narrator is me. I am describing what I see.
Ok. Now it makes more sense.