“What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?” Friedrich Nietzsche
Hmmmmmmm….Leave it to Nietzsche to provide us with a gem to contemplate. Are we supposed to love another because they are so incredibly different than us? How strange. Most of us think that, as a couple we should have more similarities than differences. That’s the way it was when we first got together, fell into love, right? In the best of all possible worlds wouldn’t our love affair continue on forever, two people gradually, gently, effortlessly merging into the bliss of Oneness? Help us out here, Nietzsche old boy……rejoicing in the “otherwise”??? You can’t be serious now, can you? (“Hello…. my name is Nietzsche, not Barry, serious is my middle name”)
Alright, I can wrap my head around the understanding part; we were raised differently, schooled differently, believed differently and all that. I can understand that we’re different. But rejoicing in those differences? That’s another subject altogether! You (Nietzshe) can afford to be philosophical about all that. I mean, after all, you get paid to theorize about such things. I wonder though how you feel when your partner takes your carefully squeezed and rolled tube of toothpaste and utterly destroys all your meticulous work? Read More→
