Friday, June 30, 2006

Infatuations...or Love?

What is infatuation? Is infatuation a feeling? Are feelings of panic, uncertainty, feverish excitement, impatience or jealousy a symptom of infatuation, or are these feelings just a symptom of being in love with someone?

I think when infatuated, we are thrilled, but not happy, wanting to trust, yet suspicious. There are lingering, nagging doubts about our “partner in infatuation” and their love for us. We’re miserable when they are away, it is almost like we are incomplete unless we’re with them. It’s a rush and intense. It’s difficult to concentrate. Is infatuation can be controlled? or is it an obssession about someone?
Do any of these “symptoms” resemble feelings of love? What do you think? So why do we become infatuated? Where does it come from? Perhaps it’s biological. What do you say?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

hEy esther jieh jieh,

Love is correlated to sentiments of security, confidence, and content. It is a soft warmth compared to the flaming heat of passionate infatuation.

Love is a slow, ever-growing process. It encompasses respect, appreciation, and heart-felt gratitude. Infatuation deals with more superficial features, such as adoration of appearance and admiration of good qualities. And as so, it is easily and rapidly abated.

Love is unceasingly forgiving: It accepts your pros and cons as the unique mixture required to create you. You are not all that is good; you are all that is you.

Infatuation, on the other hand, recieves its deathbed upon the realization of flaws. Once your bad qualities are revealed, you are no longer the idolic figure of previous fantasy. You are just you, a mortal as any other.

Love welcomes you to be yourself. Infatuation demands that you be perfect and condemns you for being yourself.

Let's live with love and kick infatuation to the curb. [:

LOVE,
aMY fOO