Writer's Block: Vision Test

[cinema_babe]

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No and most people who have any emotional maturity don't. Lust at first sight? Yes. Interest at first sight? Sure. Attraction, curiosity, assumptions, a desire to quell loneliness? Yes, yes, yes, and yes.

Love is something that grows and develops over time, it doesn't spring up like a weed.

Comments

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

I don't believe in love at first site, and you said why not well. But I do think there's a phenomenon that gets called that, is real, and deserves a better name. I believe that because I've heard too many sane, mature people talk of their own experiences with it to dismiss it. I've experienced it to a lesser degree, where it's not called love.

What it is, I think, is an uncanny degree of recognition combined with a collection of emotions that could be bundled up and called infatuation. The unusual insight into what someone is like, just from a glance, is real, I think. But it then gets exaggerated because the infatuation leads one to rapidly assimilate information gleaned after the first moment in a light that is as positive a light as possible.

[cinema-babe.livejournal.com]

It's kind of amusing that you just (unknowingly, I'm sure) pretty much described the process people go through when they become close to another person on an Internet dating site.

I don't want to give the impression that I don't think that people can't experience what seem to be big emotions when first meeting someone (although I believe it's more about the filling a need within oneself than it is about any true sense of connection with someone else). However, I think it's a far cry from love and when I've seen some of the batshit crazy stuff people do because of "love" all I can do is shake my head.