Is there such a thing as love at first sight
I think I missed that question, and that's one I'd like to answer.
No, I don't believe in love at first sight. The most you can get is an attraction, or an interest.
If you watch that person's behavior from afar, for a even few minutes, maybe then it's based on something other than appearance, but generally, no.
How many times have you though about your oldest friends, and noticed that they turned out to be completely different than the first impression they made? Take Lois. The first impression I got from her was a completely frigid personality.
And then there's Romeo and Juliet. Sure, they may have thought they were in love, but a nice ending they got. Not that that was their fault, really, but Romeo and Juliet is a dumb story. Very cliche, I would say. I always thought it was one of Shakespeare's drafts. What you get is this:
- two households. Both rich. Both powerful and influential in their city.
- teenage son and daughter of each fall in love upon seeing each other's pretty faces.
- parents object. (so far, very predictable)
- son kills daughter's cousin in a fight and is banned from the city.
- daughter is supposed to marry someone her father set her up with, but runs away to son. (we all knew this was coming)
- teenage girl runs \away from home to another city, to be with teenage boy, with the aid of a nun and a priest.
- daughter pretends she is dead. (another turn)
- son hears this and kills himself. (another cliche)
- daughter wakes up and finds son dead; kills herself. (and we knew this was going to happen once Romeo died)
And whatever happened to Rosaline? The girl Romeo was so deeply in love with at the beginning? A guy who forgets about his love upon seeing another girl is a guy with hormones. Plus they were teenagers, so that enforces my argument. The story is very predictable, too. I likes Shakespeare's other creations better.
There's also Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty who fall in love with their princes upon waking up and seeing them, but the key word here is fairy tale.
So no, I don't believe in love at first sight, as beautiful an idea as it may seem. I do believe in love, though. I just think it's rare.
No, I don't believe in love at first sight. The most you can get is an attraction, or an interest.
If you watch that person's behavior from afar, for a even few minutes, maybe then it's based on something other than appearance, but generally, no.
How many times have you though about your oldest friends, and noticed that they turned out to be completely different than the first impression they made? Take Lois. The first impression I got from her was a completely frigid personality.
And then there's Romeo and Juliet. Sure, they may have thought they were in love, but a nice ending they got. Not that that was their fault, really, but Romeo and Juliet is a dumb story. Very cliche, I would say. I always thought it was one of Shakespeare's drafts. What you get is this:
- two households. Both rich. Both powerful and influential in their city.
- teenage son and daughter of each fall in love upon seeing each other's pretty faces.
- parents object. (so far, very predictable)
- son kills daughter's cousin in a fight and is banned from the city.
- daughter is supposed to marry someone her father set her up with, but runs away to son. (we all knew this was coming)
- teenage girl runs \away from home to another city, to be with teenage boy, with the aid of a nun and a priest.
- daughter pretends she is dead. (another turn)
- son hears this and kills himself. (another cliche)
- daughter wakes up and finds son dead; kills herself. (and we knew this was going to happen once Romeo died)
And whatever happened to Rosaline? The girl Romeo was so deeply in love with at the beginning? A guy who forgets about his love upon seeing another girl is a guy with hormones. Plus they were teenagers, so that enforces my argument. The story is very predictable, too. I likes Shakespeare's other creations better.
There's also Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty who fall in love with their princes upon waking up and seeing them, but the key word here is fairy tale.
So no, I don't believe in love at first sight, as beautiful an idea as it may seem. I do believe in love, though. I just think it's rare.