PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE!

How many of us have read The Republic written by Plato? Before that how many of us know who is Plato? I am certain that, now most of you will be contemplating on whether to read this blog further or to stop it right here to minimize the damage caused to your brain! So I have decided to make it easier for you and I will ask you a much simpler question.

Who is Socrates?

This name certainly rings a bell! He was a famous Greek philosopher about whom we might have heard in our History class. Yet the tragedy is that we only know who he is and not what he told. Philosophy is something that we always consider to be boring and beyond that it’s unfathomable. Then why did I buy The Republic which had been written in 380BC by the great philosopher and thinker Plato?? Of course, the answers range from unemployment to insanity! Regardless of the reasons, I started reading it and let me tell you that, now I know why people find philosophy boring. I learnt it the hard way! Yet there was one sentence which actually screamed out of the book to catch my interest.

“Then he who is a good keeper of anything is also a good thief?”

When Socrates was discussing about justice he made this point after a series of dialogues and even after this sentence there are many more dialogues which followed. But this particular sentence disturbed me a lot. Instantly one more thought struck my mind!

“The one who loves you the most is also the one who can hurt you the most. The one who owns your heart is also the only one who knows how to break it.”

Once you love someone you give that person enough power to push you into pain. Then why do you ever fall in love when you know that you will be hurt? The answer is quite simple. Even though he/she can break your heart, he/she won’t do it, just because that person can’t see you in pain.
Therefore friends, the philosophy of love is very simple -

Love is love, despite the vulnerability and heartache which accompany it...

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