Is just a glance enough to start a life time love, from affar?
2007-09-14 15:58:03 · 11 answers · asked by SHAWN 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
anything is possible!
2007-09-14 16:08:14 · answer #1 · answered by ilovecoach 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course it can be. It usually isn't, but it definitely can be. It takes not but a single grain of sand to start producing pearls, and just two 1/2 cells is all that's required to begin an entire human life (or any other life, for that mater). All of the events which shape our lives and mold the world - all things both marvelous and horrid - all began as naught more than a single seed.
You could even start "true love" that way. When "true love" starts, it's still so small and sprout-like, and it most certainly can begin germinating just from one eye peering momentarily into another. Love is like any creature - it has its phases and its strengths and weaknesses, which change with each of its phases.
True love when it's so very young - it's not strong, it isn't enough to base an entire lifetime upon. Not yet, it must be cultivated and groomed and cared for, or it can wither. True love can never die, but it can wither into crumbly, dry, deadness - an ache you'll always remember for that person, a wilted rose that will always retain a hint of the scent it had when it was alive and fresh, but a hint that grows weaker and weaker with time.
True love when it's so young - it can still be broken, or discarded, without totally killing you inside. That doesn't mean it wasn't true love, that just means it died before it was mature enough to cause major damage to your soul.
You can fall in love with someone at a glance, but the love you feel at that moment isn't strong enough to carry you through the rest of your life. It takes time to turn a glancing true love into a lifelong true love - the glancing true love, it can grow and be cultivated, and transform the both of you into the unified whole you'd always yearned to be.
I had it once.
Once.
2007-09-14 23:35:24 · answer #2 · answered by uncleclover 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am only a freshman in hs, but i wanna try in philosophy, so try not to laugh.
a glance cannot cause it. it sparks love. as said by ode 2 of antigone, humans can not stand up to love, or any other emotion. greek gods had the ability to do many phenominal things to meer mortals, however, thier "tragic flaw" is emotion. no matter how much they want to, they cant help falling in love, or being jealous. if a glance is what first attracts a person, they cannot help that, and it may eventually lead to love. the real question is what is love? and how do you know when its for real? and why is it that everyone seems to fall for the least likely person? is it sparked because the person you never coincider a possible date, because it is easiest to confide in the people who dont want to judge you as a possible mate? or maybe its the way the treat you like dirt in a loving way?
i apologize. now i am just rambling, but tell me one thing. does this sound deeply thought through? or like some thing a 6th grader could write? thats all *i* am wondering about at the moment.
2007-09-14 23:34:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure it is. Love is a feeling. A powerful feeling that overpowers every other feeling you can have. Think about it. Think about all the things people say about love. Love conquers all. Love is blind. Love is a drug. Love is a stranger in an open car that tempts you in and drives you far away. Falling in love is easy. It's staying in love that's hard. Dory has it backwards. Love is not compatibility. Compatibility is (if it's not pure luck) hard work and/or wisdom. Compatibility is reason and logic. Love is not reason or logic. Love is not even deep affection and respect. Love is that powerful, overwhelming emotion that can turn your world upside down. It can be the beginning of your life time love affair, but the beginning is only a small part, and it's certainly no guarantee.
2007-09-14 23:30:06 · answer #4 · answered by tizzoseddy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's enough to start a life time love but it does not in itself cause love. If you think you are in love with someone after a glance and nothing more, you are kidding yourself.
2007-09-14 23:33:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. A glance can certainly cause attraction, but love is the result of taking time to find out if you are compatible.
2007-09-14 23:05:20 · answer #6 · answered by Dory 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A glance from afar CAN start of a lifetime love,... or just create attraction, desire, lust etc.; I think that the next step you take, like going over and saying "hi" would be what determines which direction you would like it to go.
2007-09-14 23:09:32 · answer #7 · answered by l.jarv 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not the type of love that means anything.
2007-09-14 23:02:54 · answer #8 · answered by sokrates 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
superficial love
2007-09-14 23:14:00 · answer #9 · answered by hiphopanonyms 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if there is a connection then most definately
2007-09-18 22:24:45 · answer #10 · answered by Xiana 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋