LOVE
Many of us love to watch numbers of films about happy and unhappy love stories. Thousands of youngsters are starved for love, most of us are eager to fall in love. Unfortunately most of the time love is not a pleasant experience but a awful one for some of us. In today’s China, many young people are challenging or have challenged the traditional concept of LOVE. In the past the majority of the Chinese obeyed their parents’ arrangement for them. But from the turn of the twentieth century young people have changed their ways to love. They valued more the Romeo and Juliet’s style of love, furthermore from 1949 to 1976 people recognized another kind of holy lovers called the “revolutionary couples”. … But in periods of rapid change, such as the current one, ideas about love can differ dramatically. That is because from the Reform and Open Up era, our society has been becoming a more tolerant one. During such times, unfortunately, our traditional culture has declined to a situation in which the basic principle was threatened. Many people are confused by their love; especially some people who distort westerners’ ideas about sex and misunderstand the Western concept of love.
The following paragraph quoted from IS LOVE AN ART; hope it will provide a solution to our problem.
Love is an art:
The two persons become well acquainted, their intimacy loses more and more its miraculous character, until their antagonism, their disappointments, and their mutual boredom kill whatever is left of the initial excitement. Yet, in the beginning they do not know all this: in fact, they take the intensity of the infatuation, this being “crazy” about each other, for proof of the university of their love, while it may only prove the degree of their preceding loneliness.
-----Erich Fromm
by Azhang
Many of us love to watch numbers of films about happy and unhappy love stories. Thousands of youngsters are starved for love, most of us are eager to fall in love. Unfortunately most of the time love is not a pleasant experience but a awful one for some of us. In today’s China, many young people are challenging or have challenged the traditional concept of LOVE. In the past the majority of the Chinese obeyed their parents’ arrangement for them. But from the turn of the twentieth century young people have changed their ways to love. They valued more the Romeo and Juliet’s style of love, furthermore from 1949 to 1976 people recognized another kind of holy lovers called the “revolutionary couples”. … But in periods of rapid change, such as the current one, ideas about love can differ dramatically. That is because from the Reform and Open Up era, our society has been becoming a more tolerant one. During such times, unfortunately, our traditional culture has declined to a situation in which the basic principle was threatened. Many people are confused by their love; especially some people who distort westerners’ ideas about sex and misunderstand the Western concept of love.
The following paragraph quoted from IS LOVE AN ART; hope it will provide a solution to our problem.
Love is an art:
The two persons become well acquainted, their intimacy loses more and more its miraculous character, until their antagonism, their disappointments, and their mutual boredom kill whatever is left of the initial excitement. Yet, in the beginning they do not know all this: in fact, they take the intensity of the infatuation, this being “crazy” about each other, for proof of the university of their love, while it may only prove the degree of their preceding loneliness.
-----Erich Fromm
by Azhang
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