Moving Beyond Fear Love in all its forms is the best gift. The giving of it enriches the lives of both the giver and the receiver. So why is it that there are so many people in this world with no love in their lives. Some people will say that they are too choosy or that they haven't found the right person yet. Others wail about their own inadequacies, thus being undeserving of love. Still others claim that love is an emotional trap that nature has fashioned in order to propagate the species and that intellectuals should raise above these sort of animal instincts. The reality is that these people are all trying to rationalize a basic fear that we all share. The fear of rejection. We fear that by showing our love we will risk a painful, ego damaging denial. It must therefor be better to wait until there is little to no chance of refusal before making an offer. This sort of thinking is sadly misleading in many ways. Love is not something that needs to be returned. It is not something that can be refused. If love exists then it exists. There is no reason to believe that we are only good people if those we love also love us back. The trouble is that most of us have been practicing holding our love back for so long that we believe there will only be one person out there that we can love and so that person had better love us or we will be forever unloved. If we were to change our thinking, we might see the lie that we have been chained to for so long. Look around you and see all of the people in your life worthy of love. You should be free to care for these people. Show your feelings through word and action. Perhaps through your courage they will find the strength within themselves to escape their own cage. But even if they don't you will feel free. You will have let go of one of life's most powerful fears and it will make you feel free.
Young Goodman Brown is about a young, newly wedded man who leaves his wife, Faith, and to go on a journey into the forest one night. Young Goodman Brown has an innocent and maybe even naïve soul and was looked upon by townspeople as a “silly fellow” (Hawthorne 83). He is accompanied by a mysterious, older man who is later on revealed to be the devil. As they are walking, Young Goodman Brown tries to turn back several times and at one point succeeds in getting rid of the devil. However, when he sees that even his wife has surrendered to the same evil path that he was on, he stops resisting and continues into the forest. He ends up at a witches’ sabbath where he sees familiar faces of people whom he previously looked up to for spiritual guidance; he also finds Faith there and becomes devastated. In the end, he cries out to resist the devil and then wakes up to find himself alone in the forest.
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As I waited in line for the haunted walkthrough my heart felt like it was coming out of my chest. As I got closer to the front I could hear the screams of the workers and the guests. Then, I finally got to the front of the line, the black curtains blocked what was inside from my viewing which made it worse. The director told us to go in and this is the time I have been waiting for for
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne provides historical, societal, religious, scientific and biographical contexts. The story is set in the period of the Salem Witch Trials in Puritan New England. The story describes Brown's journey into the depths of the forest, where he believes that he sees many of the members of his community, including his wife Faith, attending a satanic ceremony. The narrator implies that Brown may be sleeping, but either way the experience was real. It affected Brown very much. The story is often read as Hawthorne's condemnation of Puritan ideology, as it proposes that Puritan doctrine could strain so much doubt that believers were doomed to see evil-whether or not it truly existed-in themselves and especially in others. Within the short story of Young Goodman Brown, one can find evidence that collectiveness in communal life would be considered moral and that individualism would be considered unmoral in society. Eventually it becomes clear that a communalist life style is a necessary evil. Through Goodman Brown’s discovery of the corruptibility that results from Puritan society’s emphasis on public morality, one can piece together the idea that man is a social being and must be included in some type of community; whether the community itself is moral or unmoral.
Most of the story takes place within a large forest during the night, which already gives off a small feeling that something is just not right. As I read the story, I could feel that something bad was going to happen while Brown wandered through this dark, abandoned forest. Then the devil decided to show up, as well as one of Browns former teachers, revealing to Goodman Brown the evil that he had got into. At the beginning of the story, everything seemed calm while he spoke with his wife outside of his safe house, but as the setting changed, things took a turn for the worst. The setting tells a lot about what is going on in the story, and in this case, things did not go well for Goodman Brown.
"Had Young Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting?" (p. 112). It does not matter, for Young Goodman Brown becomes "a stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man" (p. 111). He shrinks from the bosom of Faith, and he dies a "hoary corpse" (p. 111). It does not matter that Young Goodman Brown rejected the Devil at his fiery altar that night in the forest. The Devil has claimed his Faith in humanity in another way.
It all comes to him as a huge shock and he is shaken but he still holds on to his faith. He cries, “With heaven above and Faith below, I will yet stand firm against against the devil” (Hawthorne 84). After seeing so much hypocrisy, the foundation of Goodman Brown’s faith was shaken but still he kept holding on because of his wife, Faith. He knew as long as Faith is by his side, he will never become corrupted. When Goodman Brown sees Faith’s pink ribbon caught on a branch in the forest, he loses it and his faith weakens. He cries, “My Faith is gone!” (Hawthorne 85). By saying this, Goodman Brown also means that his faith in God is gone along with his wife since his wife symbolizes his own faith. He goes on by saying, “There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given” (Hawthorne 85). That’s when he takes the devil’s staff and is immediately transported to the evil ceremony where he sees how corrupted everyone
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Goodman Brown leaves his wife, Faith, and Salem village in the daytime to keep his appointment with the devil, and he ventures into the forest without his ?faith.? This is a moment of irrationality because he leaves his wife, home, and security to take a dangerous and unknown path. He doesn?t want Faith to find out the evil intention of his errand because he says, ?she?s a blessed angel on earth; and after this one...
Love is one of the most important things in life. People spend all their lives looking for love. Some people never find it. Some do find it, but aren’t always able to keep it. Some people pretend to have found love, just so they don’t feel bad about not having been able to find it.
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For those of us who never learned to love ourselves and for those of us who often feel inadequate, insecure, undeserving, or unworthy of love, we will constantly abandon and betray ourselves for the love of others to the point where we repeatedly find ourselves in situations and relationships where we feel used, unappreciated, valueless or worthless to those around us as well as to ourselves.
This quote defines love as a blessing and should not be taken for granted yet some people do, and it eventually hurts their significant other. Love is a beautiful thing, people yet confuse it with infatuation, how is it that hard to not know the difference between love and
Mostly today, people are just settling for whatever comes his or her way because he or she just believes that true love does not exist or just tired of trying to find it. I have had my fair trade of this fake love settling, and honestly it has been some of my worst love experiences that has left me feeling with what love is not. Love is not something that makes you feel worthless or replaceable. It is not something that will cause the other person to cheat on the other individual. This is not something that you should dread or hate. It is not something that will make you sad or down. Stress should not be piling up at every turn one goes to. This should not make life more confusing or make you question if the other does care about you or not. The only tears that should run down one 's eyes are tears of joy, not sadness or despair. It will not make you hate life and force you to see the bad instead of the good. It will not bring doubt or false accusation to one 's self. Hatred to one 's self and the other partner should never occur. Love is not a horrendous monster that brings fear, hatred, self-doubt, and other negative feelings or
Love happens when you least expect it. It can happen on the street corner, at the bar, at the grocery store, the park. That’s one of the greatest things about love. As for me I found love in the pouring down rain in the middle of the street. I fell in love with a man who I never thought in a million years I’d fall for. A man who is loving, caring and respectful. The night I laid my eyes on him I knew he was it. He came into my life at a point when I was unraveling and losing control. I was lost for two years after my high school sweetheart and I broke up, I thought I was never going to find real love, but I did. He saved me and I remember every minute from that night.