Love at First Sight...I can't believe my eyes!
I was watching one of my favorite shows on the Game Show Network called "Greed" the other day, and something about it shocked me beyond belief. As I sat in my comfortable chair glued to the tube with my Dad standing only a couple feet away from me in the kitchen with his attention channeled away from the tele, I watched and heard what my mind could not believe. As with every episode, a team of 5 players is chosen out of 7 to form a team that will answer questions asked by Chuck Woolery. But to narrow that team to five, he asks a random open-ended question in which the seven hopefuls must get closest to the answer to make it on the team. They are usually questions like "How many homemade meals does the average American eat in a year?" or "What percentage of American families commemorate Christmas?" But the question Chuck asked on this particular episode was particularly intriguing. He asked...
"What percentage of American married couples believed in love at first sight?"
Think about it. *Jeopardy music gently strokes your attention* What answer did you come up with? 30%? 50%? Careful! Don't wager too much...
Would you be surprised if the correct answer was 78%? O_O That is unfuckinbelievable! Let's talk about this little theory called "love at first sight."
For the answer to be 78% makes me realize two things: 1)78% of people have no idea what love really is and 2)less than one quarter of married couples have an IQ above that of the chair I am sitting in.
You did not just say that...I surely did. And I am about to tell you why.
But first, let's take a walk together along the sandy beach, the wind blowing through my half-afro and sculptured sideburns, water shimmering with an ever-clearer crystal blue hue, and the sun shining ever so slightly as it sets in the west. You feel that? (Stop daydreaming, you are on no alleged beach...) No? Sure? It's called ignorance. Love at first sight is one of the most ridiculous, convoluted, self-defeating, and self-contradictory theories out there. So you see someone for the first time, know next to nothing about him or her, and say "OMG, I just knew from the feelings that came over me that it was love at first sight." Oh please, you really should stop drinking. You cannot possibly love someone that you barely even know. Those feelings you had? It was lust. As Ludacris sings in his song, "It was lust at first sight." Anyone who does not understand that needs to go grab their dictionary, look up the word "lust," immediately close the dictionary, and knock yourself out cold with it. When you come to, maybe then you will understand what I mean.
Love takes time to grow and manifest itself. Intimate knowledge and time together is necessary in the development of the thing we call love. Anything short of it is lust. Period. Just because he/she has everything you look for physically does not mean it is love.
Lust comes first, love either never comes or comes much later.
And please, for the love of all things good, do not be so quick to say you love someone - you most likely (although obviously there are exceptions) lust after them, which is completely normal.
Oh, and my answer to Chuck's question offered above: 33%. I gave American couples the benefit of the doubt by choosing what I thought was high. Obviously, I need not be so generous...
"What percentage of American married couples believed in love at first sight?"
Think about it. *Jeopardy music gently strokes your attention* What answer did you come up with? 30%? 50%? Careful! Don't wager too much...
Would you be surprised if the correct answer was 78%? O_O That is unfuckinbelievable! Let's talk about this little theory called "love at first sight."
For the answer to be 78% makes me realize two things: 1)78% of people have no idea what love really is and 2)less than one quarter of married couples have an IQ above that of the chair I am sitting in.
You did not just say that...I surely did. And I am about to tell you why.
But first, let's take a walk together along the sandy beach, the wind blowing through my half-afro and sculptured sideburns, water shimmering with an ever-clearer crystal blue hue, and the sun shining ever so slightly as it sets in the west. You feel that? (Stop daydreaming, you are on no alleged beach...) No? Sure? It's called ignorance. Love at first sight is one of the most ridiculous, convoluted, self-defeating, and self-contradictory theories out there. So you see someone for the first time, know next to nothing about him or her, and say "OMG, I just knew from the feelings that came over me that it was love at first sight." Oh please, you really should stop drinking. You cannot possibly love someone that you barely even know. Those feelings you had? It was lust. As Ludacris sings in his song, "It was lust at first sight." Anyone who does not understand that needs to go grab their dictionary, look up the word "lust," immediately close the dictionary, and knock yourself out cold with it. When you come to, maybe then you will understand what I mean.
Love takes time to grow and manifest itself. Intimate knowledge and time together is necessary in the development of the thing we call love. Anything short of it is lust. Period. Just because he/she has everything you look for physically does not mean it is love.
Lust comes first, love either never comes or comes much later.
And please, for the love of all things good, do not be so quick to say you love someone - you most likely (although obviously there are exceptions) lust after them, which is completely normal.
Oh, and my answer to Chuck's question offered above: 33%. I gave American couples the benefit of the doubt by choosing what I thought was high. Obviously, I need not be so generous...
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