" 'What do we find lovable?' Socrates asks as a way of trying to sharpen our sense of what it is we long for from the other. When we think about those we love, he suggests, we find in them admirable qualities. They are, perhaps, beautiful, sweet-natures, self-possessed or funny. We naturally say that we love them for these things. And to this Socrates adds a crucial point. We particularly relish in the other precisely the qualities that we lack ourselves. (It would be absurd, he says, to crave what you possess.) We fancy, that in loving the other we come, by some mysterious process, to possess those qualities. It is not a physical lack that drives us but a psychological one.
The desire of the lover is like the desire of one who delights in learning and who loves knowledge. This is not the position of someone who is completely ignorant, but rather of one who already possesses some understanding: enough to feel the appeal of what lies ahead. So too with the love of the qualities we see in another. Those virtues call to us not because we lack them entirely but because they have not yet been fully brought forth in us." -condition of love-
Having nothing much to do at home after quitting work, i began reading the book that i left on the shelf quite a while ago. Each page i read, each time it puzzles me. Not the english part but the meaning part. So much to understand yet so hard to. I still enjoy reading it. Well, I may be hitting the library tmr to find books to read since i practically got nothing to do at home. Everybody's busy with their things but i am hanging around no where but home. HahA! Bored...
No aim this holiday besides the theory test i had signed up for. The rest are history. Chalet is a mess, outing with friends is a mess, work is a mess. Nothing seems to be very right this holiday, kind of turning me off a little. Sian... I think i should just go enjoy Skinny's chalet, drink and chat with all that i've missed so much, yes, i should.
Star cruise, still waiting for the thing to actually work out which is taking a very long time. Dunnoe who is the one who wants to go...
Anyway, kind of blurred by things happening around me these days. Many "pop-ups" here and there and i can't really catch up with the stuff. Why huh?? Die, i dun even know what am i talking bout now. Gosh... O, and i just remember, we owe Ah loh, his wine. Perhaps, i should just go ahead with the chalet, be it anyone coming? Right... Maybe i should... O well...
I am so full of ideas yet none seemed to be working out. O...
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, GOIN TO MINISTRY OF SOUND THIS COMING WEDNESDAY, CARE TO JOIN ME?????
The path I chose yet it feels insecure...
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