Love Is Blind

@sechsey (1831)
Canada
February 26, 2007 1:03am CST
Do you believe that Love is Blind? Why is Love Blind if you do believe it? Is it just an excuse for us to keep on loving someone who isnt meant for us because we say love is blind and it does not see the bad things and just the beauty of love? Or do you think its overrated and its just a mere phrase from a poem somewhere? Here's a verse from Shakespeare: From Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice. JESSICA: Here, catch this casket; it is worth the pains. I am glad 'tis night, you do not look on me, For I am much ashamed of my exchange: But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.
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@nairjula (453)
• India
26 Feb 07
Yes, Love is blind, You become wise only after stay together with you love for long time. During love you see only the best thinks in your lover, deliberately closing your eyes towards anything negative. But later when you start practical, no more blindness, and the love too shrinks
• India
26 Feb 07
thats rightly said. When someone is in love he or she could think only of the good qualities on the other partner, but as love is binded with marriage , then they would come to know about the bad qualities .They would feel that they are not as adjustable as they used to be when they loved.
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@paulnet (748)
• India
26 Feb 07
Love 'n emotions comes straight from your heart so you don't see anything else but only his or her physical beauty. You are right after knowing a person 'n if your love never changes what may comes in life that is the essence of true love.
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@sechsey (1831)
• Canada
26 Feb 07
I guess love is blind because yes, people only see the best in a person because he/she is in love. He has a reason or an excuse to everything wrong that she makes.
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@iamdang (61)
• Philippines
26 Feb 07
love is never blind. lovers can see but don't mind. love is simply acceptance... acceptance and more acceptance!
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@tatzkie (644)
• Philippines
10 Mar 07
hmmm... tnx for accepting me despite my imperfections honey. I love you so much with my eyes wide open.
@maryannemax (12156)
• Sweden
26 Feb 07
it's so difficult to go against the idea of shakespeare. bu he said it in a very romantic way. and i love shakespear. however, after 13 relationships who had failed, i no longer believe in the saying that love is blind at all. i used to live by with this saying. being blind about everything that my boyfriend is doing. being numb acting as everything is always okey. accepting everything about him. it even came to a point when i did not care if he hurts me a lot. all i know is that i love him. being too blind isn't helpful in a relationship. i now believe that true love sees everything. the goodness of your partner and his/her flaws. you love the nice side of him/her and you are willing to help him/her change his flaws into positive ones. well, you can never change your partner 100%. that's too impossible. but atleast, try not to be blind. it's better to see your partner wholely. see him through. and understand him all the way.
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@sechsey (1831)
• Canada
26 Feb 07
There is a healthy way of seeing your partners flaws without driving you to the point of hurting yourself. Its ok to accept their flaws because you love the person but only if he understands as well that it can actually be better or the you understand and love him inspite of everything and hope that he will respect and wont take that for granted.. Thanks for the response!
@lucy02 (5016)
• United States
26 Feb 07
I think to an extent it is. We tend to overlook the flaws in someone we love more than we do in someone we don't know or like. If we don't overlook them, then we excuse them.
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@sechsey (1831)
• Canada
26 Feb 07
Yes, we always find a reason for our choices do we?:)
@greengal (4286)
• United States
26 Feb 07
That is a beautiful excerpt sechsey..one of my favourites too:) I wouldn't say I believe Love is Blind because I've never ha to be in a situation where I had to get along with a person whom I felt wasn't meant for me. I've seen other friends and cousins do it, that's when it occurs to me love is blind. Moreover love being blind has got to do with physical appearances than with just compatibility. When I see a bad pair, by bad I mean very strangely paired, you know what I mean.. that's what I mutter under my breath, love is blind. But again beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder so we have no right to judge at all. In Merchant of Venice, Jessica is dressed as a boy and this whole connotation pertains to her appearance rather than her feelings.
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@sechsey (1831)
• Canada
26 Feb 07
You have one of the perfect replies here greengal. And yes, it did pertain to how Jessica did look as a boy and she wanted him to look beneath the appearance because as they say love is blind. It will look beyond appearances and looks. It will look beyond flaws as well. And it more than just try to see but feels whats in the heart and it feels what is truly "love".
@NatureBoy (493)
• Singapore
26 Feb 07
"If love is blind, I'll find my way to you. . ." what a familiar song. Love is not blind. Its has an uncanny way of finding itself to you. If love was blind, why the 'love at first sight'. Love is too bright and shiny and beautiful that people surround by it are blinded. When the arms of love, you will fail to see a lot of things. You fail to see the many people around you, as all you see is your loved ones. You are able to close your eyes on the hatred and sorrows of the world around you, just be reaching in to fill yourself with love. Love blinds people with all the beautiful and positive things in the world, filtering out and diminishing the darkness. Guess thats why people say that love is blind, but I feel that love is blinding. Remember that bringing in the dough is just as important, not all love is a fairy tale.
@sechsey (1831)
• Canada
26 Feb 07
That was nice. But makes me wonder if love being blind a bad or good thing.:P Thanks!:)
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@akash_ain (387)
• India
26 Feb 07
yes love is blind.bcoz love can happen at any time.love dont see cast,status..love is a internal feeling.
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@miryam (6505)
• Italy
26 Feb 07
The love is blind. . I do not know, but when we are in love the brain does not connect perfect well, this is sure
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• Saudi Arabia
26 Feb 07
It is!
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@hbk_maxy (66)
• India
26 Feb 07
yes for me love is definitely blind...i say this coz wen u truly fall in love with sum1 u never care how good looking she is....wot is her background or anythng related to her....u just start loving her....u at dat point cannot see right or left and dont know whether the way u hav taken is rite or wrong!!!!so true love is definitely blind..
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@terrly396 (126)
• China
26 Feb 07
in a certain degree you 're right.However we could explain this word from the other side.Love is blind could means you are real lover and you could cherish your lover and bare his/her shortages.No one is perfect in this world.
@sechsey (1831)
• Canada
26 Feb 07
No one is perfect but you can make them perfect in your eyes:)
@Fishish (696)
• India
26 Feb 07
i think love is not blind and if it makes someone blind and the person cant see sense, it could be just an infactuation. one should not lose in love but gain in it. love in fact gives u stability adn u are more confident and secure. if u are blind in love u havent got it yet..
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• India
26 Feb 07
I dont think love is blind. I think love make one's life more better.
@lovepk58 (57)
• Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
26 Feb 07
yah love is blind so the person haveing love with some one close there eyes and jump0 in the river saying lovvvvvvvvveeeeeeee iiiiiiiiisssssssssssss bbbbbbbllllllliiiiiiinnnndd ok have a nice dayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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@sechsey (1831)
• Canada
26 Feb 07
you do know how to post quality responses. thanks!
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• Australia
26 Feb 07
I am not sure if love is blind , but it can certainly make a person blinded to there faults ect... I believe love is very different for everyone, and every situation. Open your eyes to the world and do not fool yourself into believing or blaming love for the things you may over look yourself. LOve can be such a joyous thing yet it has the power to go both ways and can be just as hurtful/painful. I have loved and lost now i keep my eyes open. Fall in love with your eyes open and you are no longer blind ... for it can be a long road to travel, and u dont want to make it a short one by crashing, because your eyes were shut..
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@kool78 (490)
• India
26 Feb 07
Yes i do believe that is blind. We do anything for the person whom we really love without thinking of the consequences. Whenever you know someone is not meant for you that naturally is not love. When we really love a person we can do anything for that person.
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@dastorm (10)
• India
26 Feb 07
Love is Blind?? It depends on how one explains the term "BLIND" when its associated with LOVE. Blind love as one may say can be fatal as in it one always try to overlook his or her partner's fault or misdeeds which is really really bad, love is a feeling which one have to feel himself or herself and make people feel how you feel, tht what i would say as love. Love is never Blind, love can see make u feel, believe it feels like heaven on earth, thts the sensation of love so i would say tht love aint BLIND. :)
@junior07 (972)
• India
26 Feb 07
ya i think love is blind,becoz u know that lover is a smoker but u can't stop loving him,u know that ur lover is a thief but u still likes him,u know he is a bad guy but u never thinks anything bad abt him,u know he is just time passing with u,but for u he is not just time pass,u know he can leave u one day but still there is some hope in ur mind,u know he is a lier but why u can't stop urself believing him,so now what u say,is love blind or not??
@JB1979 (80)
• United States
26 Feb 07
I'd go one step further and say love is Deaf Dumb and Blind. We don't get a choice in who we fall for. However, time shows everything and unfortunately love becomes a differnet thing once you start to see, heaf and understand. JB
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• India
26 Feb 07
I have a strong believe that love is blind ,because every thing is logical and so this also have the logic that when you are in love the chemical effect of love is such that you cannot see the other part of it .you are so much rooted into love that you lose the abikity to see.
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• United States
26 Feb 07
While I do believe that love can be blind and based on more than just shallow reasons, I also believe that it depends on the individual. Love gets a bad name not because love is cruel or deceitful but because people use love in a cruel and deceitful way. I think that a better way to say it is that an individual can be blinded by love.
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