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Life is a battle. En garde!
You know, my rants so far have been a bit cynical but that's not really a full representation of how I think or even my normal everyday mode. I'm actually pretty optimistic with a healthy dose of realism. So I will rant about love.
At the risk of sounding cliche and Dumblydoory, I do believe love is a force to be reckoned with. It's one of the things I consider makes the world go round along with trade (in the widest, most general sense of the word) and power. Personally, I thrive on faith (again, in a general sense, not religiously) and hope but love is up there somewhere too.
When I say love, I mean love in all sense of the word, platonically, etc., not just romantic love.
It's very much like the reason I live and value life is because of death, the reason I value love is because of all the ugly things in the world. Love has many forms but I suppose I have an ideal sort of love I try to live up to. It's not very demanding but rather selfless. I do believe every action you do is selfish but there are 2 ways to define selfish to me, one where it is inevitable and is inseparable from all of one's thoughts, actions, and decisions, and the other selfish is a gain at the risk and harming of others. So I suppose when I say selfless, I mean selfish in the first definition and not the latter.
Anyway, love, in a way that you care for the well being of another. Because I do not expect much from others, to give and receive something that fragile and beautiful is a wonderful gift to me.
Love is a necessary experience in life not just because of health reasons but it is a way to experience the fuller, better side of life. Embarassingly, I get reminded of Code Geass. It's one of the things why I identify so much with Lelouch. I have a sibling who represents my faith in life and love and that narmy speech he gave about love in R2, yeah, I believe in it.
Is that a strange belief for an INTJ? Perhaps, I do not know. I don't personally know many INTJs. Do I sound like an old man when, in reality, I'm just a college student? Probably :)
I don't think I'm that complex of a person. I don't condemn murder; I don't necessarily approve of murder (except when I do) but I don't condemn it but in spite of that or because of it, that makes love and all the good things in life more precious to me. All the people I had opened my heart to, men and women, every one of them are special to me. I may not say it as often as I should, but I try not to take for granted the enriching experiences they gave me, even the painful ones.
It's like C.S. Lewis said: To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
You know, my rants so far have been a bit cynical but that's not really a full representation of how I think or even my normal everyday mode. I'm actually pretty optimistic with a healthy dose of realism. So I will rant about love.
At the risk of sounding cliche and Dumblydoory, I do believe love is a force to be reckoned with. It's one of the things I consider makes the world go round along with trade (in the widest, most general sense of the word) and power. Personally, I thrive on faith (again, in a general sense, not religiously) and hope but love is up there somewhere too.
When I say love, I mean love in all sense of the word, platonically, etc., not just romantic love.
It's very much like the reason I live and value life is because of death, the reason I value love is because of all the ugly things in the world. Love has many forms but I suppose I have an ideal sort of love I try to live up to. It's not very demanding but rather selfless. I do believe every action you do is selfish but there are 2 ways to define selfish to me, one where it is inevitable and is inseparable from all of one's thoughts, actions, and decisions, and the other selfish is a gain at the risk and harming of others. So I suppose when I say selfless, I mean selfish in the first definition and not the latter.
Anyway, love, in a way that you care for the well being of another. Because I do not expect much from others, to give and receive something that fragile and beautiful is a wonderful gift to me.
Love is a necessary experience in life not just because of health reasons but it is a way to experience the fuller, better side of life. Embarassingly, I get reminded of Code Geass. It's one of the things why I identify so much with Lelouch. I have a sibling who represents my faith in life and love and that narmy speech he gave about love in R2, yeah, I believe in it.
Is that a strange belief for an INTJ? Perhaps, I do not know. I don't personally know many INTJs. Do I sound like an old man when, in reality, I'm just a college student? Probably :)
I don't think I'm that complex of a person. I don't condemn murder; I don't necessarily approve of murder (except when I do) but I don't condemn it but in spite of that or because of it, that makes love and all the good things in life more precious to me. All the people I had opened my heart to, men and women, every one of them are special to me. I may not say it as often as I should, but I try not to take for granted the enriching experiences they gave me, even the painful ones.
It's like C.S. Lewis said: To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.