Throughout my entire life, I always wondered and wanted to be in love with someone meaningful to me. As a little boy in elementary, I remember that my significant other would have the purest of heart. A pure heart that I continuously seek for the goodness of myself and those around me. This desire of being with someone can create feelings of loneliness and under-appreciation for oneself.
One of Plato's definition of love is the “desire for the perpetual possession of the good.” From reading one of his definitions, I realized that some may desire love for the soul purpose that they would feel “complete” or better off when in love. That love will bring color to their black and white world. Although I believe the feeling of love is amazing and powerful, I do not want to think that I need love to feel complete. This idea of completion makes me feel as if we are dependent on others to make ourselves feel good and to progress in our own understandings of oneself and the reality before us. I reject this idea because I believe my life is what I make of it. I shouldn’t need someone else to make my life complete or fulfilled. It is my understandings that lead me to live a more fulfilled life and an understanding of myself. I hope for others to agree that love shouldn’t be the search for the completion of oneself but rather a friendship of love, happiness, and understanding of each other to better progress each other's fulfillment on their own.
One of Plato's definition of love is the “desire for the perpetual possession of the good.” From reading one of his definitions, I realized that some may desire love for the soul purpose that they would feel “complete” or better off when in love. That love will bring color to their black and white world. Although I believe the feeling of love is amazing and powerful, I do not want to think that I need love to feel complete. This idea of completion makes me feel as if we are dependent on others to make ourselves feel good and to progress in our own understandings of oneself and the reality before us. I reject this idea because I believe my life is what I make of it. I shouldn’t need someone else to make my life complete or fulfilled. It is my understandings that lead me to live a more fulfilled life and an understanding of myself. I hope for others to agree that love shouldn’t be the search for the completion of oneself but rather a friendship of love, happiness, and understanding of each other to better progress each other's fulfillment on their own.