Questions
I'm curious, is it really better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? Did the first person to coin this phrase ever have a broken heart? Doesn't it contradict "ignorance is bliss"? or did it come before, and therefore "ignorance is bliss" serves as more of a rebuttal?
Perhaps each is to serve certain circumstances...for example, the premature death of a loved one, as opposed to someone cheating on you.
I understand that you have to experience certain things in life in order to grow as a person but who would you consider better off, the still happy old couple celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary or the brokenhearted romantic about to file for her 3rd divorce?
Perhaps each is to serve certain circumstances...for example, the premature death of a loved one, as opposed to someone cheating on you.
I understand that you have to experience certain things in life in order to grow as a person but who would you consider better off, the still happy old couple celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary or the brokenhearted romantic about to file for her 3rd divorce?
posted by me at
12:20 pm
3 Comments:
Lots of these old sayings contradict each other. Luckily they were not developed all at the same time or by the same persons, and are the result of repeated experiences of their individual times/eras.
Does the person who experienced real true love and then lost it have an advantage over the person who is comfortably married but never knew true deep love?
I loved and lost and am happy for the past experiences (the happy parts of it, not the psycho parts that followed). I believe that I have really true love now and some of that past experience helped prepare me to identify it before it was too late. So there is truth in it for me. It could just be that I ususally make the best of any situation and look to see what can be learned and thus would work with whatever situation. It just may boil down to attitude.
Which saying sdo we tend to gravitate towards? Are you more negative than positive and do your adages reflect that personality/attitiude? Food for thought.
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Bashmentbasses, at 11:45 pm
Hello! You want two lick?! Of course de ting contradict! So what? You learn som'n new every day, but there's nothing new under the sun. Haste mek waste, but the early bird get the worm. You get de pint? Drop the blowow phrase dem and use yu own words!
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Keiran, at 3:32 pm
Thanks for the advice punk (that would be Keiran, not you Hayden), but with regards to this blog I was merely commenting on 2 "blowow phrase" dem as you call them.
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me, at 9:28 pm
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