Website owner: James Miller
We need tales and fables which have the following themes,
lessons or moral points (for the instruction of adolescents and
adults alike):
1. We each have within us a natural biological mechanism which,
if not shrewdly and carefully managed, can loom, under the
right circumstances, suddenly into a force so powerful as to
overpower all our reason, judgment and good sense. Fanned by
imagination it can, all of a sudden, grow so fantastically
large and overpowering as to propel us into actions that can do
irreversible harm to ourselves and to others. Indeed, it has
the potential for, in a few moments time, completely ruining
our own lives and those of others. This natural biological
mechanism of which we speak is known by such terms as "sexual
desire", "desire", "passion", "lust", etc..
2. The darts of Cupid are blind with regard to the question of
marital compatibility i.e. just because two people are struck
by the darts of Cupid and "fall hopelessly in love" doesn't
mean they are compatible with each other and would be happy
together, if married. The mechanism that causes two people to
"fall in love" pays no heed to the question of compatibility;
it is blind to it.
3. The process of "falling in love" is just a sexually related
mechanism and usually of rather short duration. One can fall
in love with many different people over a period of time and
also fall, just as easily, out of love with them. Falling in
love is an infatuation, a captivation, a bewitchment which,
given time, will dwindle and fade away. There is nothing
sacred about it and it doesn't imply marital compatibility.
There is a tendency in western society to glamorize it as
something sacred in itself and that is a mistake. Marriage
based on it alone is real foolishness.
Aug 1886
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