Is Love Blind?
I have been told recently that love makes you completely ignorant to all the bad things about the person of significance in your life. You seem to refuse to see how this person drinks too much, has an attitude, or is an absolute loser, etc.
Now, as this may be true, look at how hate and distrust can be blind as well.
Hate can cause you to disregard all of the beautiful things about a person. Say you hate this kid at school. He beats you up and says extremely mean things about you to others. You see him as scum of the Earth. Yet his mother and his girlfriend love him so.
All of you are blind! You don't see how much of a sweetheart he can be, and they don't see how much of a bully he can be.
This is all so very confusing, to me at least. Who can you trust? I mean, was he a bully or a lover at birth? No one can tell. After all, he could be lying about one thing or another.
I am asking you to come up with a way to solve this puzzle. Maybe it's not a puzzle after all, maybe I'm just stressed. But I am completely... confused and conditioned to think one way. Hopefully by asking you people, I will get a good answer. Or at least something inspiring.
Now, as this may be true, look at how hate and distrust can be blind as well.
Hate can cause you to disregard all of the beautiful things about a person. Say you hate this kid at school. He beats you up and says extremely mean things about you to others. You see him as scum of the Earth. Yet his mother and his girlfriend love him so.
All of you are blind! You don't see how much of a sweetheart he can be, and they don't see how much of a bully he can be.
This is all so very confusing, to me at least. Who can you trust? I mean, was he a bully or a lover at birth? No one can tell. After all, he could be lying about one thing or another.
I am asking you to come up with a way to solve this puzzle. Maybe it's not a puzzle after all, maybe I'm just stressed. But I am completely... confused and conditioned to think one way. Hopefully by asking you people, I will get a good answer. Or at least something inspiring.
Thank you.
All of your answers were helpful. :]
nimrodidiot, June 19th, 2009 at 12:35:27pm
Love isn't blind. That's infatuation. True love is recognizing the faults others have, and accepting it. It's not being blind toward it. You're only kidding yourself if you don't see flaws.
and hate is hate. it isn't logical, it isn't thought out. It just is.
Everybody is somebody to somebody.
They just... might not be the same somebody to everybody.
The SquirrelMeister, June 18th, 2009 at 07:27:59pm
^ Agreed
Tyler Durden, June 18th, 2009 at 09:30:25pm
This is a good blog.
And to solve the puzzle?
There is no way without reducing a human being to no more than a labrat.
Everybody is somebody to somebody.
They just... might not be the same somebody to everybody.
It's a weird one :/
TO BE DELETED, June 18th, 2009 at 08:27:59pm
This is the very reason people can be friends with some and enemies to others. It all depends on the actions one person can do, and how they affect another person. Life is a gamble. If you are able to be friends with a person, go for it. No reason to get in the middle of a feud with 2 friends when you can just be friends with both. Mabie person one can influence the actions of person 2 to be nicer to person 3, so that person 3 will not think of them in the negative way that they do. Perhapse person one can explain why person 2 acts the way he/she does to person 3, so person 3 can understand person 2 better and not look down upon him/her. It's just a thought.
Blarg!, June 18th, 2009 at 08:16:54pm