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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.
Characters like Telemachus, Menelaus, and Penelope are similar to what they feeling for the people they love and care about. Telemachus situation is that he does not want to accept that his father Odysseus is death. So he goes on a voyage to find out what really happened to his father. As he arrives at Sparta Menelaus finally tells Telemachus that Odysseus is alive and is held captive by Calypso. This gives him hope that his family will finally be complete. Penelope in the other hand is devastated she has been weeping on her bed since the news broke that Odysseus is death. Also, not knowing that his son Telemachus is on a voyage and his life is in danger. Finally, Menelaus who has been wandering the sea for seven years and discovering that the death of his brother and the loss of his friend’s because of the Trojan war and the dangers of voyaging. So, he made himself a favor that is better to stay home and live honorably. The moral of the story in this section is that in the end the people you love will matter the
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.
Stress and the anxiety may manifest as physical changes like increased heart rate, fast breathing, stomach aches, headache, muscle tension, and constantly feeling tired etc. Learning to recognize these signs of stress and anxiety can help us to be less afraid of it.
In the same way that “Romeo and Juliet” represent love as incurring hurtful emotional cost; love often exposes us to hurt and trouble.
What is love? It seems to be a pretty simple word, but there is so much meaning behind it. Love is difficult to define, difficult to measure, and frequently difficult to understand. Love is what great writers write about; great philosophers wonder about; singers sing about. Love is a very powerful emotion. Love saves; love conquers; love creates. Love is passion that cannot be controlled. Both poems we have read, Waiting for Icarus and One Art, tell us how love alters human minds and hearts, making people in love struggle with the desire to remain in control of themselves and with the scary feeling of “losing themselves”.
Naturally, human beings are social beings and cannot live without friends. Friendship is an essential part of the structure of human existence. Today’s people are seeking and participating in relationships because they believe that it is good to have friends so as to experience pleasure, to be honored, to be healthy, and to prosper in life. Even in the inferior kind of friendships, people cooperate for the common advantage or pleasure. Irrespective of qualifications, career, personal perspectives, cultural differences, and interests, all people seek for love and acknowledgement from others (Curzer, 2012). This means that at a particular time, every individual will seek for a friendship, whether based on utility, pleasure, or even virtuous
Personality Changes: When a person is stressed they may experience feelings of irritability, hostility, anger aggression, miscommunication, isolation, disinterest in appearance, impulsivity such as gambling and compulsive behavior rituals such as cleaning.
“Romeo and Juliet,” by William Shakespeare, love is broken due to circumstances out of the
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
When most people think of love they mentally picture Cinderella and her Prince Charming happily dancing off into the sunset. They think of Noah reading his documented love story to dementia riddled Allie in attempt to make her remember him. They picture Michelle Tanner and Uncle Jesse solving the world’s problems with nothing but a ‘you got it, Dude’. People associate love with happiness, but love is also pain. Picture Ronnie as she clings to her cancer-stricken father who was once her closest friend. Love can bring people together, but it can also tear them apart. Love is defined as “strong affection for another” but love is so much more (Love 1). Love cannot be simply defined as affection because it does not
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.
make a choice between the love of your life and going to a football game, a
“Stress is a silent disease” (Doctor Hobel). Over the years, stress has played a major rule in a large majority of people’s lives throughout the United States. When thought about, it is said to be extremely surprising as to how many people really have stress in each individual’s life. People do not consider what the reasons are for the feelings and emotions they experience. There are all different types of stress, and stress can do a lot to a person. Each person also handles stress in a different way. Some can handle more than others, because every single person’s body works in a different way. Stress has also been told to cause people to act out of character (Dr. David Posen). They often do not act the way they usually would while under stress as they would if they were not under stress. Often times self control can fail to conquer when individuals are under stress and this can cause people to turn to addiction, abuse, or even have self destructive behavior. Stress is a huge problem in our country; that of which is underestimated.
Friendship is 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 humans need friendships and love to survive. So friendship is a big part of your life.