Is romance dead? Do you want it to be? Is time for a resurrection? Or was it all too cliché in its last incarnation and it needs a major revamping? (Page 2)
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people need to relearn how to love eachother
That sure sums it up!!
Whoever started those Hellen Keller jokes is a very ignorant person. I have always admired her. She was an extremely resilient, intelligent, hopeful and inspiring individual.
I don't know her well except for a great and fascinating movie biopic of her, but wow, I am amazed by her writing.
Here's the full context of the quote I mentioned above:
“Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free. Once I knew only darkness and stillness. Now I know hope and joy. Once I fretted and beat myself against the wall that shut me in. Now I rejoice in the consciousness that I can think, act and attain heaven. My life was without past or future; death, the pessimist would say, “a consummation devoutly to be wished.” But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. Night fled before the day of thought, and love and joy and hope came up in a passion of obedience to knowledge. Can anyone who escaped such captivity, who has felt the thrill and glory of freedom, be a pessimist?”
– Optimism (1903)
@AmandaYVR You know the story behind those thoughts she's expressing, right?
I know about her generally. What are you referring to specifically? It seems pretty self-explanatory, that paragraph.
She couldn't see OR hear!! But this very kind lady went to her house and made communication with her by forming sign language letters in her hand. It's an amazing story of patience and love.
Oh of course. That IS the story. One can't know Helen Keller without knowing that.
But so many people don't know!!
I was looking up some more of her words.
Here's a good one for you:
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail. I try to increase the power God has given me to see the best in everything and every one, and make that Best a part of my life.”
Helen Keller
– Optimism (1903)
Yeah, I just saw where you shared that with Dongtai. And thanks for sharing it here as well. 🙂
See? Isn't she amazing?
Absolutely still alive.
Love is one of the few things that is universal to all people across all cultures. I feel its an instinctual human desire to feel love and to give love to others.
With the few women that I've been romantic with - it was a one-way street. It seems to me that romance is what men give to women. Maybe I've just met the wrong women though.
i like da retro stuff. romance is very retro. i like it
It’s only dead if you kill it, or let it die. For me it’s very much alive and thriving.
Yes because guys wear purses now and women want to be men with careers. I worked with women: Question , Does you boyfriend ever give you flowers? Answer: No , even for birthday? Answer: No. Does he open doors for you pull out chair? Answer: No. Guys don't want to spend money on women and they don't recognize special days anymore.
The "women want to be men with careers" thing - some do, some don't. But it's really not optional for most couples now. Life needs two incomes. Which is really unfortunate because many people were very happy with the old model, and it was generally less stressful.
Women's rights caused this change. Men would make more if women were not there competing for jobs and willing to work for less.
People need to earn a living. You cannot blame women for working, and then blame them for earning less, and then blame them for making men earn less.
Maybe time for a resurrection. I’m a big romantic~ 🌸
It didn't die for me and won't die. Because I love to love 😊.
Romance is very much still alive especially in the youth. Just taking on different forms in adaption with modern culture.
I have to admit, I am a HUGE romantic.
So, romance is not dead to me.
Romance isn't dead you just got to know how to woo a woman and the ladies got to learn how to woo a guy
I want a romantic relationship more than anything in the world!
Romance died when it became gameified. Also, the current gen of technology isn't helping, like online dating.
It’s there. It’s just hard to find the right person. Everybody lies these days. I can’t afford to waste my time anymore so I’m just like aht aht
That's the thing, love never existed in the first place.
We just need some way to romanticize cumming in vaginas, as we are all slaves to our biology.
Romance s not dead. Women still want romance in their lives.
Romance, for the most part, is fantasy.
"A romantic notion or gesture is only as meaningful as the real love behind it... no more, no less. " I said that !
Feminists ruined dating, relationships, love, and romance. Thanks to feminism women don't trust men and it would be foolish for a man to trust women.
Dead? No. Just on hiatus.