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Relent control and fall in love with someone or something? Cynically speaking, being deeply in love is the most powerful and natural drug out there.

• awayay_temp 8y ago
  That's where some of my cynicism started. I fell in love with someone, help them go through a hard time in their life, and they left me after I helped them get back on their feet. I was told I was not as smart or as funny as their ex, and have had little success with dating since. end rant.
  • DrNuke 8y ago
    ok then you are not so cynical, are you? we have all been through rough patches like that, though, and we all need our time to heal when we’re hurt but the sooner we move on, the better... so just go out for a walk, breathe fresh air, try a new hobby and familiarise with different people... if you have a sweet heart then look for good-natured circles... and good luck!
  • creep 8y ago
    Love doesn't need to be returned to be fulfilling. I love nature, but nature will kill me if I'm not careful. Nor do I have any idea if that beautiful, healthy blue pine over there thinks of me the same way. I still love it. Inherent to "loving" is the ability to balance your connection to a thing with the limits of your boundaries and trajectories. It's that old saying, "if you love something, then let it go". If you love something, you also have the understanding that it lives its own "life", that you cannot control it and that it cannot control you. So, in loving, you'll have to accept that the thing which is loved is not you but is itself. You cannot encapsulate it.
• m3mpp 8y ago
  Love was invented by advertisers to sell nylons...
  • jonjacky 8y ago
    This is cynicism. The original poster's complaints are not cynicism -- they are legitimate dissatisfaction and unhappiness with exploitation and manipulation. Legitimate dissatisfaction turns to cynicism when its sufferer concludes that some human relations are exploitative, so they all must be. The cure for cynicism is to recognize that it is still possible to make connections that are not exploitative and manipulative, and to seek out and nourish those. (I realize this comment might have been intended as a joke, but this sort of bitter humor is often a symptom of real cynicism.)
    • m3mpp 8y ago
      Yes, half a joke, also a quote from Don Draper in Madmen. Great cynic character :)