I was talking to my counselor today and he was commenting on how we assume that romantic love is essentially
eros love. When I think about unconditional love (
agape)
-- caring for people, "working" towards love, that's definitely
different than what I think about doing on a date. My counselor
was saying that there's three components to romantic love... sort of a
triangle: 1.
eros, 2.
agape, 3.
philia. Whenever one component dominates, romantic love is skewed. I'm just starting to think through this stuff...
On a different note, Haiti has the worst (160th out of 160) water in
the whole world?! Just another reason to help build 4 wells there
through:
www.xanga.com/project440
Comments (3)
what is the philia part? <33 ps. I can't get to the preferences on the PC for AIM.
Miss you...gotta edit that hero paper on you (which didnt win 1, 2, or 3 :' ( ) lol, so I can turn it in for an Honors English Application. Even though I think I'm doing atyp? That's the update on my life...
<333333333333 fo eva b-train! Send Carin my salutations and two oranges too, lol.
Beloved sister, Philia to me meant "sibling-love" (e.g. brotherly love, sisterly love), though wikipedia says it's "friendship." Miss you, too!!