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The Most Powerful Bond Of All – Love

§ February 10th, 2011 § Filed under General § Tagged , , , , , , , § No Comments

Romantic relationships are one of the most powerful bonds possible between a man and a woman. Yet it can also have devastating emotional consequences when things usually do not work out. Oftentimes, one particular person feels somehow cheated, upset that the other man or woman isn’t putting in as much effort. Other times interest basically wanes, whether physical, intellectual, or otherwise, and it becomes easier and easier for resentment to take root and build up.

Romantic relationships are easy to get into but are quite typically extraordinarily difficult to work out successfully or even just get out of. Feelings of abandonment are common, with a sense of shame and also the resultant low self-esteem. In several cases, anger will also ensue, further disrupting lives and distorting perceptions.

It requires a very good deal of maturity to engage in a romantic relationship, and in some techniques probably takes even far more to gracefully end one. Normally, the two parties are unevenly matched in many areas, creating both maintaining such a relationship as well as ending one quite difficult emotionally.

A major part of the dilemma – indeed, its very core – is that individuals confuse love with desire. It’s possible to desire with no love, but impossible to love with no desire. Moreover, as psychologist Erich Fromm has noted, people think of love as a matter of having rather than being. That is, individuals wish to have love but usually do not actually practice loving, as an action of their everyday lives.

Folks imagine that nothing is easier than to love, not realizing that to love is really the hardest task a human being could ever accomplish in his or her lifetime. They confuse the experience of falling in love with that of “standing” in love. Falling in love means being attracted to a person. Standing in love, says Fromm, is about caring for that man or woman regardless of one’s own requirements and desires.

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A Rare Tradition Among Rivals

§ February 7th, 2011 § Filed under General § Tagged , , , , , , § No Comments

The Wagah Crossing along the India-Pakistan border hosts maybe the most unusual sight on all of the earth. It is at this tiny point on a map, the sole border crossing between nuclear rivals India and Pakistan, that a daily evening rite has been performed for the previous sixty-three years and counting. It’s the closing of the gate, and as comical as it is solemn.

Solemn isn’t the word one would first think about when surveying the bouncy crowds on both sides, seated on bleachers waving flags and eating snacks while roaring with babies and youngsters in tow. The evening retreat ceremony, when official flags on either side of the sour border are decreased, is a showcase in pomp and ceremony that ends in a handshake.

For all of the strutting and chest-thumping, complete with screams and savage glares, the ceremony has managed to end on a handshake for all these years a quick pro formal one, a, succinct and machine-like to go along with the staccato tempo of the martial parade.

The army tattoo involves what seem to be individual guards breaking ranks to rush at the other side in frightening goose-steps, but they always stop short of an invisible dividing line, leaving uniformed men to glower at each other through thick mustaches and, in the case of the Pakistani Rangers, full-on beards.

The action is normally very fast paced, till the particular retreat portion when each side takes as much time as practical to withdraw with their flags. Everyone observes this preferred rite with a good nature and high spirits, though every few years a marginally ugly event arises,eg the time in 2007 when some Indian spectators screamed at a Pakistani passenger bus working it’s way across just before the gates closed, Stop terrorism! or in 2001 when a Pakistani Ranger directed his rifle at Indian spectators.

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