I want to understand love...
So I've been reading a lot of Ovid lately. I always enjoy reading the ancients, mainly Greek and Roman This stuff was written so long ago and yet is so contemporary. It gives me a sense of security, happiness, and strength to know that there were people that felt the same way I do and share my thoughts and views. I find it amazing/fascinating that after 2000+ years people are still struggling with the same internal issues: love, true, justice, happiness........you get the point. We might all have Cell phones and Ipods but our minds and hearts are still all fucked up! Anyways, I've decided that I'm going to start to post sections from Ovid's "The Amores" on here, the lines, phrases, sections that I like, that stuck out the most. If you are into this stuff you might like it, if not, then you will be even more bored with me than you are now.
Sweet!
"Love, like war, is a toss up. The defeated can recover,
While some you might think invincible collapse;
So if you've got love written off as an easy option
You'd better think twice. Love calls for guts and initiative.
Take my own case. I was idle, born to leisure,
Mind softened by lazy scribbling in the shade.
But love for a pretty girl soon drove the sluggard
To action, made him join up.
And just look at me now-fighting fit,
Dead keen on night exercises:
If you want a cure for slackness, fall in love."
Sweet!
"Love, like war, is a toss up. The defeated can recover,
While some you might think invincible collapse;
So if you've got love written off as an easy option
You'd better think twice. Love calls for guts and initiative.
Take my own case. I was idle, born to leisure,
Mind softened by lazy scribbling in the shade.
But love for a pretty girl soon drove the sluggard
To action, made him join up.
And just look at me now-fighting fit,
Dead keen on night exercises:
If you want a cure for slackness, fall in love."