“Too often we underestimate the power
of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the
smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
- Leo Buscaglia
Many people don’t understand the real
meaning of ‘platonic love’. It is a love between two persons without involving
sex. It has been named after famous philosopher - Plato. It is quite common among
friends irrespective of the gender. In this relationship, people express their
emotions and feelings to others in a friendly manner. It is more aggressive in
opposite gender as there is a tendency to get attracted to opposite sex. It is
based on cultural factors, and is often misunderstood by the society. For
instance, a student may have platonic relationship with teacher and vice versa.
Also, a married woman who does not have
sons may often interact with young boys, and a married man who doesn’t have
daughters often talk to young girls to fill the vacuum.
Platonic love may also be possible
when a woman develops attraction towards another man and talks when she doesn’t
get the adequate attention she needed from her husband. So is the case of man
who does not get attention from his wife but looks somewhere else to fill the
vacuum. In both cases, sexual element is not involved.
Platonic love is not a romantic love.
In romantic love, people may resort to sex while it is not so in platonic
love. In platonic love, a person loves
another person not because of physical attraction but because of non-physical attributes
such as intelligence or special characteristics which are intangible and beyond
the face of another person Here goes the story of a beautiful young girl with an
old philosopher:
A young girl wanted to have sex with an
aged philosopher so as to conceive a child with his brain resembling her
beauty. But the philosopher replied, “What happens if the child is born with your
brain and my beauty.” In fact, the
philosopher was not good looking but had a great sense of humor. The young
woman wanted to have a romantic relationship but the philosopher ended it with
platonic relationship through his sense of humor. To conclude, platonic love is not a forbidden
love. It is an accepted love that happens in regular lives among the people but
they are not acquainted with this term.
“There is no feeling more comforting
and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.” - Kay
Knudsen
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