It's Attraction!

BubblyBookworm

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Have you ever felt inexplicably drawn to another person?
Describe what you felt.
 
I couldn't hang up the phone so I just went to sleep ;)
 
No, but I have occasionally felt like I'm being drawn by someone.
The experience is always a bit sketchy...
 
If you mean in the emotional/romantic sense, you feel alive--and weirdly happy/content with it. All the routine, horrific aspects of life just kind of drift by like far away noises passing some dusky dwelling place.

And if you ever experience that kind of thing and it gets taken away from you, there is no pain or sense of loss that can really compare. And I say that from the experience of having experienced poverty, life-threatening disease, and the death of loved ones.

And if it gets taken away from you through betrayal, you go to some dark places.

Hawthorne wrote one of the more eloquent passages on this kind of conflict:

"It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object."
 
If you mean in the emotional/romantic sense, you feel alive--and weirdly happy/content with it. All the routine, horrific aspects of life just kind of drift by like far away noises passing some dusky dwelling place.

And if you ever experience that kind of thing and it gets taken away from you, there is no pain or sense of loss that can really compare. And I say that from the experience of having experienced poverty, life-threatening disease, and the death of loved ones.

And if it gets taken away from you through betrayal, you go to some dark places.

Hawthorne wrote one of the more eloquent passages on this kind of conflict:

"It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object."
I love Hawthorne; what a great choice!!
 
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