Your Egypt

Monica · Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 4933 Location: Egypt

Something puzzles me and I need some opinions...and many would be even better please...thanks :lol:

...a lot of Egyptians and other people say..love is blind...and you see no weaknesses and everything is beautiful when you're in love...but how so...if you are with someone that is not at all compatible, how can you fall for that person..hmmm...???

I see that love is absolutely 'not blind' at all but totally opposite of blind, so so clear...when you love someone it is because they are exactly what you need...the blind kind is purely lust...

Can it be that in Egypt for example ~ as well as in other warmer countries ~ people are more in love with love than with the individual?

What do you think?

Jaguar · Joined: 21 Mar 2004 Posts: 2039

Ya Monica.. Love is blind, thats why you have to feel your way around.
You're right about these people who are in love with love. I know a few. They end up with the phrase I love me, who loves you. 8)

raymon · Joined: 20 Nov 2003 Posts: 1452 Location: Here

Sure ... love is blind 8) .... well in most of the cases.

I bet victims of casual relationships can tell us more about it ... especially victims of gigolos.

There are people who fall in love because they need it ... you just feel a crush towards someone because you need to love and be loved ... and you just forget all the logic thinking ...
And that's why advising someone who is outside is the best thing one can do ...

Raymon

Monica · Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 4933 Location: Egypt

ok...I like love is blind...jag...and raymon, but in the darkness... 8) In the day light though I see it clear and sound and extremely real and matching..meya meya ( 100%).

Seriously I find it a bit weird when people say I was blinded by love....I think it is pure BS...or is it??? still wondering...maybe seing a match is blind??? naaaah I think blindness is what we want to be hit with, when we do not want to see reality...and all the negative messages/warnings are hitting you in the face...

Another thing is the 'I have to tolerate because I love' mmmm ...I think it's more like 'I love, so obviously everything is tolerable since I love'...or is this blind, or what what what???

I know for a fact that a match means compatible in mostly every way...then to tolerate is not even an issue...and even with time gone by, when the heat of the moment has passed...if ever..he he he...if characters match, background is similar, experiences are very close, love is consistent then :BINGO!...

Trying to drag you all in this...again...express yourselves people...
Need more opinions...hope to get some...
Shukran!!!

raymon wrote: Sure ... love is blind 8) .... well in most of the cases.

I bet victims of casual relationships can tell us more about it ... especially victims of gigolos.

There are people who fall in love because they need it ... you just feel a crush towards someone because you need to love and be loved ... and you just forget all the logic thinking ...
And that's why advising someone who is outside is the best thing one can do ...

Raymon

kay · Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3 Location: oxford UK

hi my friends

being in love with love mmmmmm i think i know that one!

from a personal point of view i was so like that - i spent a few years telling myself that i did not want to be in love and did not need it - then woke up to the fact that i did want to be in love ran around being in love with the idea of being in love - spent a while trying to convince myself that the first person that showed an interest was 'the one' - then realised he wasnt - and am now a little older and wiser! :roll: phew

am now calmly aware that i would like to be in a relationship but also aware that i dont HAVE to be in one - so i now feel im meeting people with my eyes open. - i do so like to sound calm and rational time will tell LOL

much love kay

Zakirah · Joined: 22 Apr 2004 Posts: 52 Location: Cairo

Ok, I love being in love with love! BUT i try hard not to fall into its trap. I spent some years as a teenager having one crush after the other and not wanting to actually be with the object of my crush...... I just simply enjoyed having someone to daydream about. I am a romantic and i like to dream.

It became a problem when i started dating and spent the 1st week/month feeling so so so so happy then the subsequent months feeling soo soo sooooooo bored! Hehe i would then have to spend the next few weeks getting my phone calls screened - not a nice way to treat other people sa7! I now try to follow "do unto others....." and "what goes around....."

Now as an adult i know what it is..... i like the adrenaline you feel when you first meet someone.... I'm sure most of you know it. That's all, not real love at all.

(getting to the point!)

Maybe that is why people say love is blind, because you get caught up in the rush of first meetings and so on.

You see no weaknesses? Hmm, i think maybe you do, but you are more willing to make excuses for them. (similar to what Monica said - reality) I mean how many women have you heard say "I knew i should have dumped him when......." Lol, yeah well why didn't ya!?

Lust? Yeah sure maybe in some cases. But for a romantic like me, it is purely for the "honeymoon phase"..... you know the times when he still takes you to the cinema - AND PAYS!! - you can walk for hours and not notice the aching legs, he actually listens to what you have to say and wants to "get to know you" and "what is going on in your mind" Hehehe, sorry i'm starting to take the *beep* now.

In conclusion (of my essay) i would say being in love with love is great when you are honest enough to know that it is not really love. Also when you can admit that love is not really blind, it just has shades on!

Monica · Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 4933 Location: Egypt

Cool essay zak...I'm impressed :roll:
So blind love is really a form of lust then in your opinion!!
he he he... :lol:

Ok here is a toughie for you..are you ready?
How do you know, and I'm asking all ~ the 32 members that is ~, when it feels right??? and that boring feeling does not attack and everything is smooth...

[my answer is: you just do ladies and gentlemen and I can't even explain it :twisted: it just clicks all the way )

So zak...tell me you are ...in Cairo? converted to Islam, originally from the UK, learning Arabic..mmmm what else what else???

I have 30 minutes :D and then I'm gone with the wind for the day...so tell tell tell...

Salam...

Zakirah · Joined: 22 Apr 2004 Posts: 52 Location: Cairo

Monica wrote: Cool essay zak...I'm impressed :roll:
So blind love is really a form of lust then in your opinion!!
he he he... :lol:

Ok here is a toughie for you..are you ready?
How do you know, and I'm asking all ~ the 32 members that is ~, when it feels right??? and that boring feeling does not attack and everything is smooth...

[my answer is: you just do ladies and gentlemen and I can't even explain it :twisted: it just clicks all the way )

So zak...tell me you are ...in Cairo? converted to Islam, originally from the UK, learning Arabic..mmmm what else what else???

I have 30 minutes :D and then I'm gone with the wind for the day...so tell tell tell...

Salam...

When do you know it is right? Well i haven't got past the "you bore me!!!" stage!!! Well actually there is this one guy......... :oops: Hmmm i wonder if i will hear that click or if it will be one biiiiig yawn :D

I'm being veerry boring at the moment actually, when you consider all of the things that you can do in Cairo. That was one of the reasons i came, to have a better quality of life. I can tell you all about the things i wanna do - my dreams! - but not much about what i am doing now. Hehe is this a clever way to find out my past screen name? 8)

Old Man · Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 6 Location: 6 Feet Underground

I agree with Monica, love is not blind. Far from it. In fact, it is one of the few real emotions that one could ever feel. As for the proverb “Love Is Blind”, it is just that, a proverb. It is used when someone is wondering how someone could love someone else who is seemingly not worthy of that love.

Monica · Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 4933 Location: Egypt

Well said Old Man!

I think that being blind when love is concerned, means being 'in denial' of the negative consequences that the mismatch could generate.

Old Man wrote: I agree with Monica, love is not blind. Far from it. In fact, it is one of the few real emotions that one could ever feel. As for the proverb “Love Is Blind”, it is just that, a proverb. It is used when someone is wondering how someone could love someone else who is seemingly not worthy of that love.

Dienrose · Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 245

Some people are in love with love.
Some visitors fall in love with Egypt, and so look for a personification of that love (in order to consumate the relationship?) and project that Egypt-love onto the indiviual, whether appropriate or not.
Then come those stories... :roll:

kamar · Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 10597

i have a beautiful love story with egyptian man.

Monica · Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 4933 Location: Egypt

tell us more we love beautiful love stories of love!!! :bounce:

:cheers:
:bounce:

kamar wrote: i have a beautiful love story with egyptian man.

Katrina · Joined: 05 Jun 2004 Posts: 991 Location: USA

Luxorlover · Joined: 05 Jun 2004 Posts: 422 Location: Luxor and England

Is love blind? Well if it is not blind then it is certainly blinkered.

My 'love' was totally unsuitable. Different in every way. Opposites attract - scientific fact. I was blind but never ever was I bored. Every day was different and a challenge.

He stole from me, cheated me out of vase amounts of money, was unfaithful to me right under my nose and was a thorougly disreputable man. I threw him out. I will never see him again because I don't want to. Despite I admit that I will love him until the day I die.

Yes love is blind.