Erich Fromm 's The Art Of Loving

For many, love is a constant search for happiness that never ends. The desire for love is longed for and pursued by every human. Many constantly seek it in self satisfaction, but are never fully satisfied with the love which they attain. The biggest reason for this is the distortion of the love which is sought for. True love is pure and selfless, the perfection of a person. It is truly something which must be cultivated in order to recognize and attain it. Love is a gift so sacred that it is worth living and dying for. “Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not

Through life, people experience many kinds of love. Many people often believe they love someone, when they actually do not because they may not know what the word means. As much as we want to understand love, it is still simply indescribable. As C.S. Lewis tries to explain it in his book, The Four Loves, it is still a mystery as to what love truly means. I believe in order to know what love means, one must experience it. It is quite true that went two individuals are in love with each other, they know it and can feel it. No matter how much love is studied and looked at, every individual must experience it to understand it. Along with this love lies circumstances which lead

Love is a powerful emotion that every human being has experience at least once in their life. There are numerous connotations that refer to this emotion, but there is only one kind of love that can make a person change completely in unexpected ways. It is the kind of love that consumes the soul and everything within. Mixed with excitement, adventure, heartbreak, happiness and joy; it is a big ball of feelings, all concentrated in one simple, yet extremely complicated necessity to have, protect, please and give all of oneself to that one person. In certain occasions, love can grow very intense and, consequently,

Soon enough when having a taste of a certain drug, the body and brain will begin to crave more because of the feeling it experienced. Although, in the article of Hari and chapter 7 of Slater’s book, both state a difference was made when surrounded by loved ones and living in a happy environment. For example, with Rat Park, the rats that were in cramped cages stopped drinking the morphine water when placed in a happier environment involved with other rats. Furthermore, in the article by Hari say that, “Human beings are connecting animals. We need to connect and love instead of living in a society where we keep cutting each other off” (pg 4.) If people connected instead of being on their phones, speak up what they feel, or seek for help when needed, no one would be addicted to drugs in the first place. Humans push each other away and the environment people live in makes it a lot worse. Constantly contacting each other through forms of social media and not knowing fully when the context of people’s messages. That’s what leads others to fall into addiction not having full confrontation of these types of

Americans today tend to not realize we’re slowly being separated from each other. Whether it be electronics keeping us away from the family at night or just social media that keeps us from going outside and actually socializing. It has become a serious problem and it happens more and more as we continue to advance in technology. Not to mention it's forming another problem in the way we’ve shaped our societies so that it's extremely easy to be cut off from human connections without even realizing it. Johann Hari, The author of “The Likely Cause of Addiction” pulled my attention towards realizing that this addiction is a fast paced growing problem. Hari Specifically states,"We have created human societies where it is easier for people to become cut off from all human connections than ever before." He’s basically stating that it’s become way too easy to be disconnected from our society and its gotten worse over time. Honestly I agree with how he thinks, we don’t realize it but we’re all being slowly cut off from our society. Whether we like it or not we’ve created our society to be the way it is, and it caused us to be so easily disconnected from one another.

Love is said to be one of the most desired things in life. People long for it, search for it, and crave it. It can come in the form of partners, friends, or just simply family. To some, love is something of a necessity in life, where some would rather turn a cold shoulder to it. Love can be the mixture of passion, need, lust, loyalty, and blood. Love can be extraordinary and breathtaking. Love being held so high can also be dangerous. Love can drive people to numerous mad things with it dangerously so full of craze and passion.

Love can be defined in many ways, but does anyone know the true meaning of it? In Raymond Carver’s short-story What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, he shows us the realism behind the true meaning of love with a menacing tone. This story particularly shows how different people may have different definitions of it that reflect who they are as a person by using strangle dialogue given by the characters and situations that reveal symbolic items. From the ironic remarks and slight rebuttals in this story, one could infer that the topic of love can bring the worst out of people. Through this story, Carver shows love through the lives of his characters, suggesting that each love is different, and all people have different views on it.

When I started reading the book ‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver I expected a love story, more like a novel, told by someone who had all kind of experiences with love. Actually, I said to myself finally a book for me. But it turned up to be a book full of different stories. First of all, he collected all type of stories each one different from the other, but all of them related to love. Although, sometimes I had problems identifying the characters because Carver does not give names to most of his characters. He used more personal pronouns which forced you to be more focus at the time you read.

The Ancient Chinese came up with the idea that two opposing things can come together in order to find perfect balance in harmony, the yin-yang. The yin yang is a widely known symbol that represents many of the best relationships that there are. A relationship is only as strong as two people strive for it to be. A strong and successful partnership requires many components in order to remain that way. In The Arnifour Affair, Gregory Harris creates a couple that exhibits these traits. Because Colin and Ethan trust each other, they are able to have a strong intimate relationship. Mixing work and love is a risky move, but with high risk comes high reward. Colin and Ethan are two prominent characters that relay this

To love and to be loved are the main point of human life. However, the level of love and the way that people express their love are totally different. There are many definitions of love and many poets describe love. But it is not the same for everyone. I can see love makes people develop the best. In love, many great thoughts are born. A person who is full of love knows the way to love others. Besides, if they are satisfied with their beloved, they won’t need to search for other love. In my opinion, I think true love is the important and essential point which makes people happy. What is the true love? Can people find the true love in their lives? It is a tough question because we are the imperfect people. Life is always changing and the emotions of people are also changing, too. We cannot say I will be faithful to

Love has many different meanings to different people. For a child, love is what he or she feels for his mommy and daddy. To teenage boy, love is what he should feel for his girlfriend of the moment, only because she says she loves him. But as we get older and "wiser," love becomes more and more confusing. Along with poets and philosophers, people have been trying to answer that age-old question for centuries: What is love?

Love is complicated, complex notion. It is not necessarily roses and chocolates, or “rainbows and butterflies” as the Maroon Five song says. It is the subject of art, music, films and literature.

Our innate tendencies affect out behavior patterns in the life cycle. From love, sex, and marriage and the change from societies to past and future times. The discoveries of why we have mating traits and how they are used in many meanings such as a smile or the way a person speaks with their body. The forces of culture and environment take part in human involvement in the world. While men and women start to change roles and rights are broaden in a marriage. Along comes divorce in which happens so often in societies because of many reasons. What we have inherited is from out ancestors and it repeats itself in every life cycle. The expedition of the book Anatomy of Love goes through the past to future on love, sex, marriage, and divorce and how it relates to modern societies.

Love is difficult to define, difficult to measure, and difficult to understand. Love is what great writers write about, great singers sing about, and great philosophers ponder. Love is a powerful emotion, for which there is no wrong definition, for it suits each and every person differently. Whether love is between family, friends, or lovers, it is an overwhelming emotion that can be experienced in many different ways.

Upon reading Erich Fromm’s The Art of Loving, I gained a better understanding of what love really is. Fromm’s book puts love into perspective. He begins with several facts with regards to the attitude in which people treat love. They are the problems of how to be loved, the object to love as well as the confusion between the initial experience of falling in love and the permanent state of being in love, which had a great impact on me, as far as thinking about what love is.