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I am currently reading a book entitled The Commitment by Dan Savage and I have come across a wonderful excerpt I would like to share. This section is referring to Plato’s theory of romantic love:
“Human beings were once two people combined, Plato wrote, with two heads, two sets of legs, and two sets of arms. They were three sexes: humans with two male halves; humans with two female halves; and humans with one male and one female half. Zeus [the greek god] punished humanity for some imagined slight by cutting all the two-headed, four-legged people in half, condemning us to wander the earth in search of our missing other halves. Homosexuals were originally part of a male/male whole, lesbians were part of a female/female whole; and heterosexuals were part of a male/female whole.
‘And so,’ Plato wrote, ‘when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation…something wonderful happens: The two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don’t want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment. These are the people who finish out their lives together.
Even if we’re lucky enough to find our other halves, though, being in two separate bodies means that one half is fated to die before the other, leaving behind countless [widows and widowers].
Plato addressed this, too. ‘What is it you humans beings want from each other?’ a god asks a young couple. ‘Is this your heart’s desire then–for the two of you to become parts of the same whole, as near as can be, never to separate day or night? Because if that’s your desire, I’ll weld you together and join you into something naturally whole, so that the two of you are made into one.’ No couple that received such an offer would turn it down, Plato wrote, because ‘No one would find anything else that he wanted.’
It’s a nice thought, but the ever-so-sweet-to-think-about ‘one flesh’ idea falls apart when you threaten to actualyl make one flesh out of two people. I don’t think it’s possible for me to be more in love with [my boyfriend] than I am now, but I can’t imagine a worse fate than being welded to [him]. Like all sane couples, we have to spend time apart. I may live in fear of being permantently separated from [him], but that doesn’t mean I want to be permanently joined to him, either.”
This excerpt really made me think a lot. It gave me an “ah-ha” moment that I couldn’t help but share with you. I’ve heard so many theories about our “other half” but this is probably my favorite. Not only is it explained in a very interesting manner but it also makes sense. Please keep in mind that greek theories are often very, um, strange, yet it doesn’t take away from the meaning behind the story. Ask anyone that is truly in love and they will tell you they have found their life partner, their other half. This just strengthens my theory that you can only SHARE true love with one other person. You may love someone, or someone may love you but until you find that “one” I don’t think you will SHARE true love.
That’s just my opinion…what do you think?
