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Reflection About Love

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“Hey, Apollodorus, wait!” yelled a man from behind us. Apollodorus and I stopped and turned around upon hearing this. The man began mentioning a dinner party from a while back, and memories started to run through my mind. I recalled being with some old friends, and discussing our own personal views on what love really is.
“Love is a great God, wonderful in many ways to Gods and men,” said Phaedrus.
“Of course it is, but at the same time it is very delicate and must be treated as such,” I quickly replied. We continued to go back and forth. We had wondered why we were all gathered here tonight, but in the end, we hadn’t learned. We simply went on about love, and the different stances kept coming in.
“Also, love can be categorized into two kinds: an older deity and a younger goddess. Both are good, but they are inseparable,” Pausanias chimed in. We all continued to throw in our views on love, and every single one of us seemed to have a different stand on the matter. I said, “Well love isn’t simply a thing, it’s a privileged. An honored privilege created by two individuals who are willing to go as far as die for the other.” Immediately, the wise Socrates questioned my comments, “How is true love formed, and what really defines it?” This got me to thinking, and I came to realize that my thoughts on love were much greater than I had even known. As Phaedrus had told us, “shame for ugly things, ambition for beautiful” (Plato, page 10, 178d). But is this really how love is looked

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