Saturday, May 3, 2008

Elizabeth Rhein-Relationships-Student's Choosing

One of my favorite conversations we had in this class was discussing the differences between friendship and a romantic relationship. I had never really even considered the reasoning or explanation behind these differences until I read The Four Loves. I love how just facing a person a certain way can describe a relationship. As for friends facing side by side so that an infinite number of people can link on is just so interesting to me. Obviously, I had met my friends because we each share a common interest. When I first moved to Virginia from Texas in the summer, I didn’t really have any friends until school started. I met my best friend in orchestra and because we both were cello players and loved playing, we began forming a friendship through that same interest. I later met more friends through church and class. It’s pretty hard trying to become friends with someone who really doesn’t have anything in common with you because there’s nothing to really form a relationship from. As for those in a romantic relationship, they stand face to face because they are completely connected with each other. I do think that there are similar interests between the two, but that is not what binds them together. It is just themselves that the other wants to be with. Standing face to face with the special other person is very emotional and powerful because they are each other’s world. I guess that sounds kind of cheesy, but by witnessing others in love with one anther, they really are the only thing that really seems to matter to the other person. I actually watched Sabrina the Teenage Witch a while ago and she had accidentally turned her boyfriend into a superhero and the only way to turn him back was for him to save the world. In the end, he saves her and is therefore able to turn back to normal because to him, she is his world. Obviously these feelings are not really associated with friendship and so they need that certain common interest to keep each other together. Once that interest is gone, their relationship fades. Fore example, once my best friend and I graduated high school and went to different colleges, we ceased to be best friends because we lost our common interest of orchestra.

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