Socrates on love

“And do you think, you foolish fellow, that the fair inject nothing when they kiss, just because you don't see it? Don't you know that this creature called ‘fair and young’ is more dangerous than the scorpion, seeing that it need not even come in contact, like the insect, but at any distance can inject a maddening poison into anyone who only looks at it?”

Love is a poisonous thing that fills us with strong feelings that can take away everything but it can also give you everything. Socrates believed it was even stronger and more dangerous than a scorpion because other than having a better poison, it could inject you with such without even touching you.

Socrates was a very wise man. He left us with many lessons yet to discover and even after thousands of years we still learn about his teachings. I believe that this particular set of words are without doubt 100% right. When one is in love, one can do anything and is capable of anything. We walk on the air, we can stay up many nights, we can even go without eating anything with love by our sides. 

There is of course a different face of love that we like to ignore and that brings us back and even deeper into Socrates words. Love can take it all away. Love can wake up within you forces that you never knew you had, but the same way it brings you happiness, it brings you pain. Love is for the masochists in us. When it hurts us, it does in such way we can't bare life at the moment. We need to pull ourselves back up and ponder upon our situations. Love disables us from time to time and makes us consider horrible things. 

A broken heart by love is one that will always forever be scarred just to remind us that love can bring you so much and take it away as fast. This is why it is a very powerful venom, even more dangerous than a scorpion, but is it worth it?

I believe that while love can do so much pain, it can do much more happiness and pleasantness. A life without love, is it worth living? Love makes us feel alive, even if its pain or happiness and satisfaction, it brings so much of a feeling we just have to grasp it and feel more than alive, feel life.

Reference: 

http://heritage-key.com/blogs/owenjarus/top-10-socrates-quotes-reflect-upon