Is it just me or do the Jet Blue commercials make their employees look basically like complete and total idiots...amusing yes, but do we really want to be hundreds of feet up in the air with them??? Along similar but not quite as crucial lines, do the makers of Apple Jax really want people to have NO IDEA why people would want to eat them? Just some ponderings to start your weekends off right! :)
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I've never seen the JetBlue commercials, and their site is making me download QuickTime to view the movies which I really don't want to do now, SO I can't comment. But yeah, the Apple Jacks commercials were always a bit odd. Though not implausible, since I would liken them to my take on relationships. Women always think it's cute to be like "Why do you love me?" But I don't think you can actually say why you "love" someone. You can say why you tolerated them long enough to get to that point :), but love to me is still a mystery. Much like those people who can't explain why they love Apple Jacks.
Maybe I should say that some time. "I don't know why I love you, hon... you're like Apple Jacks." I wonder how well that would go over.
(Disclaimer: Keith woke up about 5 minutes ago. This post may or may not make sense.)
WOW. That is one of the most wonderfully obscure analogies I've ever seen...I will never look at apple jax in the same way...not that I ever really looked at them much before. You raise an interesting point though...can the idea of love be expressed by tangibilities? (Is that a word?) I tend to think people fall in love with those that remind them of themselves while being different enough to make them see themselves and the world in new ways. And then of course there's the "hotness" factor. :) Or "cuteness factor" whatever you want to call it. :) But there's so many other things that come into play that perhaps it does all just come down to the "Apple Jax Theory."
I don't think it's necessarily that you can't pin it down to one thing. I think it's more like, no matter how many explanations you can come up with, and logical reasons why you are with that person, I still feel like "love" is totally random. Many times, I've seen a relationship ending and I don't want to admit it, I want to keep going on. Now, I logically look at the relationship and say "It's definitely over; she is annoying because of blah blah blah." But often I would still say at that time that I'm in love with the person. Love, then, is something separate from those things that keep a relationship together. Growing differences can break up a relationship, but only time gets rid of love.
Hmmm...see, I'm not sure I agree with that last part. I don't really feel like love is separate from other things that keep a relationship together. I think when people are really in love with each other, the love part is more of an intangible feeling that encourages them to work on other parts of the relationship. I would agree that time might make certain annoyances become more unbearable, and I'm definitely not saying that people don't fall out of love, because obviously they do. But I don't necessarily think it is the result of time alone. I also think that in some cases, if you are really in love with someone, time never really diminishes that feeling, but changes the WAY it feels, if that makes sense. There's also a big difference between loving someone and BEING IN LOVE with them, I think. I think it is possible to love someone you never met...for instance, if a song writer's work has influenced your life in a major way, and has really impacted you, you are likely to have a great deal of admiration and respect for that person. On a deeper, more personal level, that can feel like a certain kind of love, though I don't think you can be IN LOVE with somone you never even met. I guess to me IN LOVE, means a deeper level of love itself. I don't know if this makes sense to anyone but me, which is why my academic writing makes professors get up and takes walks around the block. :)
I feel kind of like an asshole in a way, talking about the meaning of love or whatever. Because there have been more than a couple girls I've said "I love you" to over the years, and when I said it I meant it. Only to move along and then say it to another girl. Was I never truly in love? That's a possibility. Was I in love, but then fell out of love? It seems to me that that's not something that should happen very easily, but for me it happens again and again.
Hmm, kind of got carried away there. But it's an especially interesting topic for me right now, having just ended a year-long relationship. I still get sad when I think about her, but I know that will go away as it always does. I'll meet someone else, and the cycle will continue.
This isn't really a sad subject for me, so I hope it doesn't seem like that. It's actually really interesting to me, and it's at times like this that I have the clarity to at least somewhat objectively think about these kinds of things.
Man. I think I just killed this thread. :)
I had no idea you broke up! I'm sorry to hear that. I would ask what happend, but I'm sure you don't want to post it on the internet. I'll give you a call soon...by the way, I know this is slightly off topic, but can I just say how cool this is Keith. I've missed having these conversations with you. :) Thanks again, Joe, for setting this up. I really love it. :)
Jess- I am happy to have started this blog. this is exactly what I wanted to see happen.
I guess a part of me was beginning to get worried that we were losing common threads to talk about. Every discussion cannot strictly be about college and I can't believe that it would be good for anyone if it stayed that way. This will hopefully keep things fresh and exciting.
On that note, I finally got a chance to read this thread in detail. How it went from Cereal to a serious discussion about love, I am not sure, but I did want to put in my two sense.
First, I find it funny that you (jess) define being "in love" as a deeper form of love. I have always thought the opposite since being "in love" cannotes that you can fall "out" of love. I do not feel that the deeper kind of love is something you can fall out, but rather you may be able to place it to the side over time.
On that note, I am not sure I agree completely with keith either, as I don't believe that love and relationships need to be mutually exclusive. However, I am a firm beleiver that a relationship will not last unless there is love and a willingness to work at building the relationship. Whether love breeds this willingness, I am not too sure.
I do feel though that if you do not work at a relationship, exploring the things that bug you about the other and so on, over time they will kill a relationship. If it gets to this point, then to me, I think you have to evalaute what level of love you are really in and if you are ready to contnue the investment. (Of course, the other person would need to do the same.)
In any case, I know I am on the other end of the spectrum with this stuff, being engaged and all, but I wanted to put my thoughts out there becuase I also feel that it is an interesting topic.
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