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Throughout my life, it’s always been hard for me to understand when I get love. I always want everything to be equal because in certain areas I don’t feel equal. Love is something I’ve felt that I could feel that balance on, but without it, I'm hurt beyond belief. When Friendship is not reciprocated it creates a burden of emotional stress.
I get a strong sense of protection when a friendship is returned. I receive warmth when I have someone else tell me they love me. I get an aching sensation in my heart when I pour in love only to not receive it. When I don’t get a friendship returned I feel a turning in my stomach, I need to feel special in a way to prevent this aching. Friendship fills a void in my soul. The reason I need friends to give me a sense of protection is my parents never gave me this feeling. I not in the least got
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I have someone who I can tell personal stuff to. When I don’t have that trust between me and a friend I get insecure. The loss of a friend is more painful than anything I’ve experienced. I need to feel like my friends are reciprocating my feeling because I’m in a fear that I’ll lose them.
Along with emotional stress, I get a physical strain. As I’ve stated I get stomach turns when I get anxious. I also experience panic attacks. The hard it affects me mentally the more it affects me physically.
In the Iliad, there are many displays of this. One is when Achilles loses Patroclus. After he loses him, he realizes that he can’t go home. To me, this is similar because since he did not reciprocate his love to Patroclus. he caused emotional stress on himself by doing this. He goes through pain realizing that he can no longer face his family at home.
Another person that receives stress due to lack of love being reciprocated was Thetis. She loved her son so much she was willing to do anything. Each time she came up you could tell that she was having pain. Time and time again Achilles would ask and she would
Many times the love that a person is looking for is the one that a person doesn't realize.
Love can be pure, powerful, dreadful and even destructive. It is proven that even viewing a picture of a loved one can relieve any pain you are feeling. In the novel Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the main character Hester Prynne commits a sinful gesture due to the lack of love with her husband. This later led into a catastrophe, which was a perfect representation of a love downfall. As for The Crucible by Arthur Miller, there was also a love downfall that happened between characters Abigail and Proctor after they had an affair and he found out about her double life. Both of the Puritan Literatures, The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible, both proved that love can be a pure and destructive force at the same time.
I would like to explore the concept of love, the dichotomy of the masculine/feminine perspective and how it relates to the two short stories. Also I will explore the ideas of “phantoms” or in other words the imaginary idealization and objectification of the characters.
Sappho seems to be a woman who is completely infatuated with love. In the majority of her lyrical works, she shares strong feelings about beauty, pain, and love. Many of these feelings are over exaggerated in a great amount of detail. The power of love has a very prominent effect in the actions of others. We are all human beings and many of Sappho’s poems are extremely relatable to how our actions are influenced by the emotion of love. While Sappho was conversing with her assumed lover who was leaving with the army, she says, “Frankly, I Wish I were dead (Sappho, p. 42).” Emotion is what elevates the level of someone to just being sad, to Sappho explaining that she wishes she were dead. Sappho also explains an instance in which she says, “Afraid of losing you I ran fluttering like a little girl after her mother (Sappho, p. 54).” and finally she shows her pain by revealing her thought of, “Pain penetrates me drop by drop (Sappho, p.61).” Her feelings escalate after going through stages of absence. She cannot focus on anything else other than wanting this army wife back into her life. Such feelings happen to ordinary people today when dealing with breakups and loss of loved ones. Emotion not only plays a big part in reasoning but it also acts as a behavioral supplement like how it affected
Everyone everywhere has experienced stress with something they have dealt with in life. Whether it is school, paying bills, managing a busy schedule or work, stress affects everyone. Although everyone experiences stress, many people don’t actually know what stress is. Stress is the physical response of the body to harmful situations that threaten someone’s well being. When someone says “stress”, the word is automatically associated with a negative effect on people but small doses of stress can benefit a person, if used to correctly. Everyone’s stress level is different and the amount of stress that can be handled varies from person to person but a stress overload will not benefit anyone. “When you feel threatened, a chemical reaction occurs in your body to allow you to act in a way to prevent injury” (“Stress Management Health Center”). The chemical that is released when stressed is known as cortisol, also known a stress hormone. “Cortisol is like a long-term form of adrenaline, produced in the adrenal gland when the body is under pressure” (“The Effects of Stress on Your Reproductive Health and Fertility”). Adrenaline is also released to send the body into, what is known as, emergency action (“Stress Symptoms, Signs and Causes”). This emergency action speeds up reactions preformed by the body and the mind. This is a way of protecting the body. While in emergency action, this stress caused by threatening situations can save your life. In emergency situations, you are given “extra strength to defend yourself, for example, or spurring you to slam on your brakes to avoid a car accident” (“Stress Management Health Center”). Signs of being in this emergency action are a racing heart, blood pressure rises, quickening of breath and tigh...
In the same way that “Romeo and Juliet” represent love as incurring hurtful emotional cost; love often exposes us to hurt and trouble.
“Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.” (“Quotes About Companionship”). Friendships have the tendency to make one feel appreciated and well supported. Whether you realize it or not, your friends have shaped who you are today. It is important to acknowledge two types of friendships; entity and being. Writers use the theme of friendship to highlight the companionship people have in association with others in literature, which illustrates how humanity values beings.
Stress is “the body’s reaction to a change that requires a physical, mental, or emotional adjustment or response.” Many people realize that stress has a great impact on psychological health; however, they do not realize that physical health can be compromised as well. When the body is put under stress, physiological changes take place, such as increased heart rate or blood pressure. Many individuals do not know the extent to which stress can impact their bodies because they cannot see the changes taking place. If stress is prolonged, physical symptoms may begin to arise. These symptoms are real; however, they may or may not be due to some sort of physical disorder. Stress-induced anxiety may begin to form within the individual because of a constant fear that they have a serious medical condition. The cycle will repeat itself with potentially worsening symptoms.
To better understand the concept of "love", lets define the value of love. Love is the most valuable commodity in the world. We all need love just like a fish needs water. Without love, life would not be worth living. With love in our lives, we are empowered beyond belief.
War has the capacity to foster love while equalizing social status. The novels The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje and A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute substantiate the fact, through fiction, that during war-time men and women who are not of the same station in life can find an incomparable love with one another. Each novel also gives evidence of love igniting during war and surviving the trials of time and distance. Hana and Kip from The English Patient and Jean and Joe both go through these trials and tribulations associated with love and war. Whether that love is doomed for failure or a future together forever…it never dies.
...r love. When you love you are your most vulnerable to hurt. Sharing your love is the most risky thing you will ever do. It can either be the most rewarding effort or it can be the most devastating effort. If you invest yourself in someone, and give them your very best, and they respond positively to your love, you will experience great satisfaction. If, however, you invest in someone, and give them your very best, and they do not respond positively, or they do not respond at all, or they respond negatively, it is likely to be one of the most painful experiences of your life. People who have failed at love often vow to never loving again. To the person who has been hurt, love is perceived as the source of their great pain. Rejection is one aspect that nobody wants to live with.
Friendships are one of the most important things you can get out of life. It’s something that everyone has to have because without it we would all go insane. Just think if no one talked to each other and we never made friends, this world would be a ticking time bomb. Studies say human need friendships and love to survive. So friendship is a big part of your life.
Friendship is the most wonderful relationship that anyone can have. Ideally a friend is a person who offers love and respect and will never leave or betray us. Friends can tell harsh truths when they must be told. There are four different types of friends: True friends, Convenient friends, Special interest friends, and historical friends. To have friendship is to have comfort. In times of crisis and depression, a friend is there to calm us and to help lift up our spirits.
Most beautiful kindred of all of humans are the companionship. Without excitement, confusion, tangles and commitment life becomes a cake-walk if people have a hand of a friend to hold on. Can everyone imagine if there is no friendship in the world? Nobody will care about one another. Friends are the pillars of strength that give support and comfort in life "A hedge between keeps friendship green”. Friendship is the one of the medium that can build unity among community. As Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of United States, once said, “Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together”, I strongly agree to his statement because friendship teach to help one another, learn to accept each other and build trust and faith towards each other.
We do not make friends because they are useful but the bond of friendship, once it grows stronger and stronger has a number of positive aspects. There are certain secrets that can only be shared with our friends only. When we are facing a difficult situation in our lives, only true friends come forward to help us overcome all the difficulties.