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Thinking. It happens when you're an arts student. It happens more when your arts major is philosophy. Too much time, too many questions and too few answers. And the more you think the more you wish you knew
I continue to have troubles with this definitional monologue. What is love? And what is the difference between love and romance if, there is indeed, any difference at all? No matter which way I look at it and no matter how much tossing and turning and twisting and wriggling I do, I am unable to find a solution that is both sound and satisfying.
Secondly, and perhaps less straightforward: are emotions still emotions if we have control over them?
Note: these questions in no way reflect upon any sort of emotional state. They are merely the ramblings and trivial endeavours of a cynic for worldly wisdom.
I continue to have troubles with this definitional monologue. What is love? And what is the difference between love and romance if, there is indeed, any difference at all? No matter which way I look at it and no matter how much tossing and turning and twisting and wriggling I do, I am unable to find a solution that is both sound and satisfying.
Secondly, and perhaps less straightforward: are emotions still emotions if we have control over them?
Note: these questions in no way reflect upon any sort of emotional state. They are merely the ramblings and trivial endeavours of a cynic for worldly wisdom.
posted by Yuki at
7:57 PM
5 Comments:
well..first of all, love and romance as words themselves have totally different meanings. to be loved and to be romanced are different. romance is more of a descriptive word for a state of feeling at that particular moment rather than an emotion.
and of course emotions are still emotions even if you have control over it. if the feeling was not an emotion then what is there to control in the first place?
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Regina, at March 23, 2007 3:10 AM
Isn't an emotion just a state of feeling?
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Yuki, at March 23, 2007 6:54 PM
Even if we can control them they leave an imprint that makes us aware of their existance. So doesnt that go on to influence us and prove we never really had any control?
Anyway emotions are a thing to endure. Even if we feel euphoria by the next day our happy chemicals have run out and we feel like crap.
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Anonymous, at March 28, 2007 7:52 PM
The easy way to refresh your supply of endorphins (the beloved happy chemical that you speak of) would be to consume copious amounts of chocolate.
After which all you'll have to endure is a rather upset stomach.
By
Yuki, at March 28, 2007 8:55 PM
I thought it was serotonin.
Either way chocolate never runs out (I have four bars in the cupboard) and I can handle a little upset stomach.
By
Anonymous, at March 29, 2007 4:54 PM
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