beauty will be convulsive - Page 5

Let's say we fall in love, and in that love we find a person who we think is truly beautiful and we seek to "replicate" them. This means we want to see them, spend time with them, as much time as possible, see their face, take photographs, maybe draw or paint them if we are an artist or whatever, but in any event, we seek exposure to them. So a. meets b. and a and b fall in love and we all know that during those early, giddy stages of love, that it seems that though we logically know that the rest of the world exists, in some ways, it ceases to exist and lovers are always the only two in the world. The Lovers are it and they alone exist in your eyes, while still being in your logical mind aware that other people do exist, yet you cease to care about them, or care about them in a romantic/sexual way.

One may be aware that yes, logically, there are other partners for them out there with whom they could potentially be involved with and perhaps even find beautiful, but the difference now, after falling in love with the object of desire, or object of Beauty (in the interior way, the deeper, more profound way), is that you could care less because you are satisfied with what you have. Anyone who says they are in love and yet they can see real potential with someone else and finds themselves on their way to their lover's abode but smiling at and admiring other women or men along the route is not, if you ask me, truly in love. The connection is not full. It's one thing to know there is beauty in the world - to deny its existence would be futile and silly. But to actually see it and engage with it through eye-glances, flirtations, emotional or physical affairs or affairs of the heart or affairs of any kind, is not in love. It's really that simple. Why we can only love one person in this way I can't say; I do think it's possible to love two people at the same time, but that said, I also believe that the love for each of them is different. I could be wrong: Is it possible to feel romantic love for two people at the same time and in the same way, or will the love for one or the other always be greater at different moments? Is it possible to love exactly the same way to the same degree and simultaneously, and if so, is that "true love" ("Whatever that means…" says Prince Charles who is a supreme ass).

Article Author: Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti

Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti is a published writer in both the United States and Europe. She is widely known for her music commentary, particularly her writings about Bob Dylan about whom she runs a highly-trafficked site. …

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