Honorable Life and Bioethics: Love vs Choice

[crimsonrhapsody]

LOYOLA HONORS PROGRAM:
I have to write an essay on one of the quotes given to me. I think I'll choose this one:
"Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some are to be chewed and digested."

So I broke it down into three parts:

Tasty books- Like candy, you can read them, like them, but not feel totally satisfied with them. I think I'll

Comments

[ex_myu53]

Love may or may not be a fall, but a choice consciously made by people.

a fall of what? I think you sould be a bit more specific in explaining yourself ._.

[crimsonrhapsody]

well, I was using the romantic idea of falling in love verses the conscious idea of choosing a love.

[ex_myu53]

I can see that but your thesis should be a bit more broad. Just saying that ' love may or may not be a fall' doesn't really make sense if someone is just reading it. Pick it apart and it doesn't sound just right.

Maybe something along the lines of " Opposed to the cliche romantic ideals of one falling in love , its more apparent that the emotion is consiously decided by whomever chooses to experience it. blah blah blah

just a suggestion!

[crimsonrhapsody]

meh, It wasn't really a thesis here. I didn't want to write the whole thing out, just give a general idea XD.

[brokenfaraway]

That's a really interesting quote. I think the way you broke it down works really well

[crimsonrhapsody]

ooh, you gave me a lot to write off of. I kind of thought Black Elk Speaks was a little boring, but I already wrote something on it that my teacher thought was fabulous XD. Maybe I'll switch that to the swallow catagory?
Hey, eat your veggies! Brussel Sprouts are good for you (they just aren't...good. lol)
What about the idea that you choose to fall in love? Aren't there people who just don't act upon it?

[brokenfaraway]

Glad I could help ^.^

Brussel sprout are icky don't wanna eat them T___T

I don't think that you chose to fall in love. I'm sure there are people who don't act upon the love they feel but they didn't chose to feel that love. Take for example the guy and girl bestfriend. And the guy and girl both have respective partners. But slowly one of the two falls in love with the other. They know that it can never work because they're best friends and they would never wnat to risk ruining that. Yet their heart beats whenever the person gets closer and they long to be with them.

I don't think that's a choice, because they don't want to be in love with that person, yet they are.

Or take the girl falling for the bad boy she knows he's not good for her, he hits her, he abuses her in other ways, and is just over all bad for her. Yet she loves him and makes excuses for him all the time. It's deffinitley not a choice for her to love him because she wants to get away from him but she stays anyway because of the love she feels.

I hope I made some

[crimsonrhapsody]

It definately did. I will be looking into the lines of some of your points as well. There are a lot of scenerios to place out there XD.

[gysecune]

I want to read The Kite Runner! My English teacher recommended it a while ago.

From my own personal experience, I can say that love was not a choice for me. I wasn't looking for a relationship at all, and when it came to my current boyfriend, I was in denial. I really liked him but refused to admit it to myself, because I was too scared to start another relationship. I would do lots of little things and talk about him all the time, which made people wonder, but I fiercely denied it. And then he kissed me, and it was impossible to do that anymore.

Also, to go along with that, there are many homosexual people who are unable to prevent who they fall in love with but have really tried.

[crimsonrhapsody]

Kite Runner was a such a good book. I cried a little, if I recall XD.

Question: What if your boyfriend didn't kiss you? Would you have still been in denial? Is that a conscious decision in itself?

True, I am going to focus on homosexual love as well, but in all honesty I thought part of the point is that there is no distinction. The love is the same, just the same gender, right? And it must suck when they fall in love with a heterosexual, so yes I guess that is a sense of falling. But as for choosing, they don't choose to act upon it all the time, right?

@_@ woah, I think I just confused myself...

[boyfashionista]

Kite Runner was excellent! <3

[crimsonrhapsody]

You better believe it. I think I'm in love with Hassan XD.