Love is Blind…
October 24, 2010You can get no more cliche’ then the all-too popular “Love is Blind” statement, often used as an excuse for what one some would consider past relationship blunders, no matter how cliche it is, it is very true…
Attempting to explain, cover, or even address the short film that is Runaway in a single blog post would be doing it a great disservice as I feel there were layers of topics in the film that stood out, but there was one scene in particular that stood out to me, for a number of reasons, but one of them were due to a conversation that took place as follows…
Dinner Guest: Your Girlfriend is really Beautiful
Kanye West: Thank You..
Dinner Guest: Did you notice she’s a bird?!
Kanye West: Nah, I never noticed that…
Clearly, Kanye West’s character was being facetious, but the conversation rings true for those that are in love or believe they are anyway. When one is lead to believe they’re in love, you care not about what anyone else thinks of the love of your life, nor particularly about your loved one’s flaws. We may notice a flaw or two but more often than not we choose to make excuses for or in some cases totally disregard these flaws and/or differences. Agreed?
After removing myself from a situation I realized a slew of “flaws”. That were shown to me along the way but I chose to disregard or undermine. For some reason or another, this brief exchange of words brought me right back to that “situation”, and made me wonder when we are in that state of “love” when we’re so entranced by someone that we’re willing to disregard obvious traits of theirs…. Are we entranced by “love” or is it “lust”. Just a thought…
