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Triumvirate of the Human Heart

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Society and entertainment has dictated to us three important lessons. 1) You are nothing without love; 2) You are nothing without Sex; 3) Love and romance are the same exact thing. If you ignore these lessons you are not of society’s norm. If you do not have love you are empty, if there is no romance it’s not love and if there is no sex you are not normal. But the media has gotten it wrong. Romance isn’t love at all, though it can help love bloom, it is not love. Sex may be a normal thing but not having sex isn’t abnormal. And love, well, it is very important, but the most important love is love for oneself, before someone else enters the picture. Without that, nothing else works.

We live in a world where one little pill can give us the chance to have an erection whenever we want (as long as we’re male), where another pill can end a pregnancy before the egg has even implanted and where you can become pregnant without sex.  Where the biggest thrills many people have come from television shows or from jerking off. Something happened to our world long ago. We became more interested in what other people do than what we ourselves can do. We watch celebrities, pornography, friends and relatives, read about different situations

Romance is a theme in almost everything – television shows, movies, books, music, rumors, news etc. The movies depict two people falling in love over a period of two weeks. Or bumping into one another and getting married the next day. While these occurrences do happen, the chance that the two lovers are going to be together forever is rare.

Romance is for beautiful people, love is for everyone else. In the movies I have only seen a few pure love kisses. The acting may account for some of it, but the most romantic kiss I ever saw was in the 1926 movie Metropolis. The romance only accounted for a very small sliver of the entire movie, but it was the most beautiful scene when Maria bent over to kiss Freder. Though they had little romantic interaction before, that kiss showed love, not necessarily for each other, but for a future they hoped to create. Most of the time in the movies, a kiss is shown as a symbol of love but turns out to be more like a chance for the characters to show how much mouth they can get on the other person.

I was talking to someone who said he wanted a girlfriend because a girlfriend was friendship, trust and just someone to talk to and go to if something came up. But is that what a girlfriend is to a guy? That’s always what I’ve felt that guy should be to a girl, though it still doesn’t seem right for anyone. Maybe I didn’t understand him, or maybe I’m socially stupid, but if that’s love, it’s not right to expect a girlfriend, or a boyfriend for that matter, to be the one you go to when there’s a problem. Of course, this is being said by the person who keeps all of her troubles inside of her.

Romance: It’s the thing that completes us. But what if it didn’t complete us at all? What if it merely splits us even more?

Sex is another part of that damned triumvirate. We’re pounded with images of people looking sexy, beautiful and of beautiful people together. The advertisements that are constantly shown show us how life “should” be. If our life isn’t like that, then you can change it by buying their products: Cialis, Enzyte, Viagra, K-Y. We are one of the only species on Earth who uses intercourse for pleasure, so obviously it’s very important right? But why must it be in everything we see? Why must sex be that invisible presence that affects our thoughts and judgements and lives?

Love is the third and most essential piece of the puzzle. Love is what our lives revolve around, what the songs are all about, what movies are supposed to be about. However, love is more complex than the two people involved. Other people say God is love and you can only know love if you know God. What they fail to mention is that if God wants you to know him, he makes his presence known. Love works in the exact same way. Love for another person is the hardest thing to understand and to even feel. Most teenagers swear they know it, and many older people will swear it is love. But they believe that they have what they see.

Together, these three things are a Trinity, almost a sickening parodying the one set down by the Catholic Church. Love, Sex and Romance – the untouchable but ever present, the physical and well-loved, and the illusion. Love can find you at anytime. Someone told me he loved me, and from that moment on, I questioned my feelings for him. Another person told me that as well and I questioned my feelings for him as well. But there is one person I have never questioned my love for. He was the last person I loved as an innocent. And I pray he loves me too. Do you, Mr. S-----? Do you love me?
Dedicated to the one I love, or will love.

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I agree with the very first part - about how society pounds it into us that you are nothing without sex. what about Mother Theresa? she was a nun, wasn't she? was she nothing?

but I also believe that hollywood's sex is different from the kind of sex God made. porn is dirty, "naughty" and that's supposed to get you in the mood. Have you ever read Song of Songs? it can also be called Song of Solomon - it's all about sex; a book in the bible. well, it's actually about love, but the romantic kind of love that grows into sex. I don't think that love and romance are the same thing - they just go together. there are many different kinds of love, and one of them is the kind that can lead to sex. I say "can" because some people are Eunuchs, or some people really love God and their fellow person, but they just don't want sex. I agree - it isn't abnormal.

I don't know this from experience, but I've heard from Song of Solomon and church and my parents that sex is a beautiful thing that you chare once you are in a committed relationship. I think it's disgusting that some people want to change their wedding vows from "till death do us part" to something less committing. they only want to get married so they can DO IT. and just that phrase: do it. like it's something disgusting you can't say aloud. well, it is a good thing. that's why they call in lovemaking.

warning: I'm gonna say it. it's nothing dirty or something bad hollywood invented.

SEX!! there. I said it.

~L-Maryke