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Origin Of Love Aristotle Analysis

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Few years ago I learned about Aristotle’s origin of love story about how we were created in halves and were to search for our “lost” half in order to be “completed”, “a whole”. (I heard it before but wasn’t sure where it was originally told from.) The reason why I brought up Aristotle was because behind this story he said that there was darkness. He said that people are wanting to be completed, and those who cannot find the right one would be in misery and those who did find “the one” eventually would want to make it last forever to be genuinely theirs, but this creates fear of losing, in other words, temporary love.
So looking at Aristotle’s origin of love background, I do believe that once we fall in love, it’s timeless, meaning our love …show more content…

I don’t think there is anything wrong with someone wanting to be single if they want to be single. We have no rights and we are not the ones to judge them to have a wife or a husband. I mean most singlehoods would be around 30s and on, they are able to think what they want for themselves. Obviously coming from someone who wants to have a family in the future, I believe that they would be missing a great part of life, but as much as I want to have a family I believe that, thats how much they want to stay single. Getting married is the most traditional way couples have been living, and obviously breaking that will create controversy as they are changing our living styles. However, all I need to say is that, it’s not our business to point at them negatively nor to judge them. It’s not like the whole universe decided to be singlehoods, and yes, singlehoods rates are increasing but let’s not forget that we have greater rates in couples. At the same time, being a singlehood doesn’t mean they are permanently single or illegal to get married, we all change and what’s so wrong about it? I mean, what kind of society do we want to live in? People are free to choose whether or not they want to be single and thats

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