My mind is a little jumbled tonight so I'm going to try my best to make sense of what I'm thinking. I really enjoyed the paragraph in Kierkegaard on page 285.
"In such a way this love swears, and then the two add to the oath that they will love each other 'forever.' If this is not added, the poet does not join the two. He turns away, indifferent, from such a temporal love, or, mocking, he turns against it, while he belongs forever to that eternal love. There are, then, actually two unions--- first the two who will love each other forever, and then the poet, who will belong to these two forever. And the poet is right in this, that if two people will not love each other eternally, then their love is not worth talking about, even less worth singing praises about."
This part really stuck out to me because it is incredibly accurate. Why waste time and celebrate for a couple who will only be together for a few months before they decide to divorce? Why not praise the couple who survive through thick and thin and cherish every moment with each other? It is more beautiful to watch a couple who truly love each other and want to be together for the rest of their lives rather then watching a couple who fight constantly and complain about each other. There aren't a lot of movies about couples who get married and divorce. There are more stories about how a couple truly falls in love and stays together through the ups and downs. Why would we want to learn about a couple who fight and don't try to stay together? There are enough troubles in the world dealing with violence and suffering. It's better to know that there is still good in the world whether it be a good deed or a couple simply falling in love and honoring the vows that they speak on their wedding day.
P.S. I commented on Susan's blog, "Thoughts on Love"
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