So...
There is all this talk about cheating going on and I have some perspective to add to it.
Attraction is, by definition, the gravitational pull of one object to another.
Attraction is, by definition, the electromagnetic force that pulls one mental disposition to a corresponding circumstance or event.
All in accordance with what we are...Human. So just like the proliferation of mankind...
Attraction will never stop.
Attraction will never end.
So now that we have established this, we should try to look at infidelities in this light.
The act of cheating means different things to the people in the relationship as opposed to the person outside of it.
I think cheating happens. Not to everyone, but it happens.
And as someone who, seems to always crush other peoples' partners, I always think about how easy/appealing it is sometimes to destroy the moral fabrics of love relationships.
On one hand, I get self conscious about the entire thing. Like what is it really saying about me, if knowingly get with someone else's partner? Do I have low self-esteem? Am I being scandalous? Am I just being indulgent and self-gratifying? How am I going to look if I don't care about this woman's feelings? And should she even want this dude if he would risk the relationship?
And then on the other hand, is attraction. Bump all that other stuff.
All the things you like and want and feel and desire is looking you in the face asking to be acknowledged, and the only thing standing in your way is this other person and a connection that exists with someone else, that has absolutely nothing to do with you. And you just want it. So to stop yourself is conceding. Its admitting defeat. Its being completely disrespectful to the fate of the cosmic operation. And love, actually, is one's motivation.
Is there not enough merit in one's motivation for love?
If there in lies a spiritual connection in the revelation of a union between people, would that not merit one's motivation for love?
Or would you rather just throw these notions under the bus?
Moreover is the truth of deeds, actions and their interpretations.
Its hard for me to look at every person I am attracted to and think that my heightened level of awareness for this person's energy is automatically meant to be interpreted as romantic. I mean, then I would be having romantic rendezvous's with damn near half of the world's population.
Lastly is a question of ownership and boundaries.
Does anyone really belong to anyone else?
Does commitment always have to constitute emotional/physical co-dependency on one other person?
Do relationships really suffer or thrive with the knowledge and freedom to be who you are with whoever you choose in respectful capacities to your love arrangements?
And then other times (which is most times), people are just horny or unhappy or uncommunicative.
For all the intents and purposes of writing this particular rant, I would have to say that cheating is not just about one or two things. Its about a myriad of possibilities with varying mental/emotional states of being. Its about change, love, indifference and frustrations. Its about getting down to the core values and convictions about love. And one should not venture there if you are not willing to do the spiritual work necessary to thrive knowing where you should be, with who you should be, not based on a ring or necklace or rent or your ego or an institutional piece of paper telling you that your feelings towards you partner will somehow automatically make you an adulterer for loving someone else outside of that...because you can and you will if your love is not motivated by something more pure and riskier than the spews and songs about love in our societies.
The journey is long and sometimes lonely. But then, where would we be if everything, everybody, everywhere, always stayed the same? But when you find it and know its there and its yours even though it has the freedom to be absent or nullified at any point...But its still there anyway...Like God...Like love, then this conversation is forgotten and we get back to making the world a better place for our children.
But somethings are just not meant to be.
But maybe I'm being too idealistic about our "selves" and our hormones. Maybe I should just go buy some shoes.
Kisses
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so basically... you're selfish.
ReplyDeleteIf you sow discord and selfishness into the universe, that's what you will always receive. There is no way you can experience true love or true happiness living life like that.
ReplyDeleteI will engage the ideas expressed by these two anonymous heads, who may have somewhat missed the point.
ReplyDeleteLove is not about ownership. But I see how me not clearly expressing that cheating doesn't absolve guilt or betrayal could be interpreted as me being selfish. But even so, those feelings are attached to an ego maniacal understanding of love...I deliberately didn't discuss the pain because this wasn't about pain... it was about the actual action and what it means if your intentions to love in purity wasn't there in the first place.
Selfishness is absolutely a part of cheating but we all knew that already. Why point the finger and place blame when really, the revelation is a clear indication of your higher purpose to move on. In the grand scheme of things...it was an experience that brought you closer to yourself and your needs but certainly not the end of the world.
Bottom line dose of reality...growth is necessary.
Think higher. Unfulfillment is so common place in our realm right now, we latch on to things/people that are not good for us just to feel something or important, but being responsible for your love and higher self are not common place.
Purer intentions...was where I was going with it... self reflectively/introspectively so.
"...when really, the revelation is a clear indication of your higher purpose to move on."
ReplyDeleteIt could be an indication, but I don't think it's necessarily a clear one at all. And let's not confuse higher purpose with simply doing what is easiest. Often the idea of staying put is the most challenging endeavour. Just because one might be currently unhappy does not mean a complete severance is the only course of action. That's throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
I agree with much of what you've said in terms of the sentiment at least (feelings are never wrong). But it kind of reads like an attempt to justify. As someone who's also attempted to justify, not cheating, but a general lack of commitment, there comes a point when you get fed up with your own logic and have reset. My two cents.
Your blog is funny to me...
ReplyDeleteIt was well-written, but I feel that it insinuates that you can transgress rules and personal agreements, which all relationships are, in favor of your own selfishly-motivated actions. There's more than one person in a relationship, they've CHOSEN to be in one, and they must adhere to the agreements that THEY'VE made for themselves. They are cheating when they haven't agreed to sleep with other people, or become emotionally dependent on other people, or whatever stipulations they've made. Simple as that. Just because YOU feel like a nut, doesn't mean that his girlfriend wants you barking up his tree... and he doesn't want to bust one for you with love at it's ooey gooey center... sometimes you just get the hollow, empty shell of what you THINK is love. Furthermore, all of the illusions of spiritual grandeur in the world wouldn't stop you from getting stoned in the Good 'Ol Days, but, that's just my opinion. Culture is much different around the world, and although that might work in some places on the West Coast, it sure as hell won't work in Jordan or Nigeria.
When you speak of these attractions, you treat them as if they're all motivated by love. However, the attractions you have would be long lasting if there WAS a deeply spiritual love that you felt for someone else's mate... but if the relationship is a fling, then it's not... it's lust. This would refute what you're saying if you wake up next to them and realize that in the moment, things have changed.
Lastly (and I'll quit with my moral ranting) it's very easy to make this claim if you are on the offensive end, but how about when you're on the defensive? It FUCKING SUCKS to get cheated; I don't think that I've ever enjoyed it. In fact, I HAVE wanted to choke a bitch because of it. Having this happen to you cannot justify you doing this to someone else. There are just some attractions that are fatal. I'm attracted to fire... I love it, but I will be destroyed by it if I take the wrong approach to it.
I know for sure that what's easiest is almost never cheating. And i don't think Lady Prettyface's words are meant as justification, it's just reality.
ReplyDeleteI think that questioning your beliefs is the only way to stand firm within them - could not the same be said for relationships? If your relationship does not stand up to 'the test' of external influences or temptation, are you better off without it? What if your partner cheats, but you both come to a realization after the fact that it doesn't matter, and are drawn even closer together, then it doesn't matter that they cheated because you both win - right? At least that's how you would feel, as though you had come into something more true, stronger.
Whether it's your relationship or yourself, change is inevitable and we can't predict what changes will result from any given event, so... why the moralistic limitations? "Attraction will never stop. Attraction will never end."
If you're not aware of this, your relationship is probably boring. And doomed :| (WE) are out here, unattached and attracted. Stay on your god damned toes. (sorry.)
I wouldn't want to be cheated on, but i have been, and what could i do about it? Sulk. Cry. Cut a bitch? All that happened in the end is that i changed.
I say, life is short. You can find deep meaning in a short-lived experience. Try not to hurt anybody but don't deny yourself even a 'moment' just because it could jack up someone else's mediocre long-term. Your intervention may end up being the best thing that could happen to this person whose eternity you're supposedly destroying - I've experienced that first hand. And wouldn't you want to play that role - it's like having your cake, eating it and losing weight.
... unless there are kids involved, that's just messed up. Ruining some little kid's kwanzaa is just not cool.