Brain Food #433

Love as survival

Daily Brain Food.

Thoughts of the day

For the people who have gone through this alone, some out of choice, some out of circumstance, will they go back to still seeking perfection and absolute compatibility?

I recently watched a beautiful short film on Alain Badiou’s philsophy of love, which I highly recommend to those of you who might have fifteen minutes to spare today, or on a Saturday morning.

Badiou presents love as the willingness to embark on an adventure, to face the unknown, to take a risk:

“We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.”

Love, like all things worthwhile, is difficult. Enduring love is an act of defiance of the circumstances, and an act of survival. And what is this profound ability of all of us to sit and patiently wait for this to pass, to survive through it, if not the ultimate statement of love; that of the love of life itself.

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