12 October, 2015
People are Not Concepts
I was really interested in what Dr. Redick said about people not being concepts. It really made me stop and think about the people I surrounded myself with. Can I really be long-term friends with these people or do I just like what I think they can turn out to be? Do I really just like how I picture who they are and become blind to their true personality? It is so hard to figure out what it is about a person that we find attractive and if we like them for the right reasons. That is probably why it is so hard distinguish infatuation from love. It is so easy to get swept up from the “perfect” significant other but we have to take a good look at what makes them so "perfect." When I say perfect, I do not mean that they are without flaws but rather fit our own definition of perfect. If we become so infatuated with one specific person, we force them to be what we wish for them to be. We mold them into our own definition of perfect. When we love someone, our definition no longer matters. We realize that they are a person, not a bunch of words put together to describe a concept.
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