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- From: bs584@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeanne Leidy)
- Newsgroups: alt.angst
- Subject: Re: Is this love, or just a dead heart??
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 22:53:24 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- In a previous article, mrf12@cus.cam.ac.uk (Marcus Frean) says:
-
- >>I agree! Love should renew your faith a bit, accelerate your brain, put you
- >>back in touch with your universe.
-
- >I dont. I read it the other way around (I dont know whether or not
- >this is how Steve saw it but anyway...) - I mean the fact that my
- >expectations would go through the roof when I met a someone was a real
- >hassle - it only meant endless trouble later on as the real person
- >slowly disentangled themselves (in my head) from the ridiculous bunch
- >of expectations I'd got in the first few times I met them.
- [...]
- >And you *do* have to undo it
- >all sooner or later. It takes so long, it usually hurts, and heck,
- >yes; I'm too tired of it all.
-
- You can keep your feet planted on the ground and still get excited. I meant
- that love can make you feel *more* connected to your reality (universe),
- not that you should lose touch with reality.
-
- I, too, have on occasion read more or different things into a person than
- what existed. But I think that you can be realistic and feel really really
- exhilarated at the same time. Call me crazy.
-
- >Or maybe I'm overstating it - I dont mean it's not exciting, not at
- >all. It's just the unreality of it gets me down, because I know it
- >only spells trouble later on.
-
- Yeah, maybe we do agree. Except that I think you can learn to avoid lots
- of the illusion-building.
-
- >marcus.
-
- -Jeanne
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