Philosophical quote breakdown on lovefrom @thejaunt_

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You have reasons to love someone you don't love them, that's a quote from Slavoj Zizek. Whenever someone tells me, like, about their partner and they're like, well, they're they're beautiful, they're rich, they're smart, they're this, and they're, like, listing off all these reasons, I'm always, like, waiting for them to say that they, like, like them, but they never say they never say that. They'll just, like, describe all the the great objective qualities of this person, but not necessarily what is the feeling that they have towards them. And maybe some people just talk that way and think that way, whatever. But I feel like if you were to really describe the people who you love in your life, your answers would probably be painfully simple and or cliche. Like, you'd just be like, I don't know. When... Whenever I'm with them, I feel happy. That sounds like less of a reason to be with them than saying, they're kind. They're loyal. They're really intelligent. Blah blah blah. But it's like, actually, that might be more worst, just saying when I'm with them, I feel really happy. I think that's closer to Zizek's line, which is that if you really love someone, you don't have reasons for it. He's being poetic in a sense. He doesn't really think that you'd have zero reason for loving them. He's just saying that, like, it shouldn't at all seem like some rational or objective endeavor. You shouldn't understand fully why you love them because that then points to the magnitude of your love. If you can verbalize it, it's potentially so small that you can actually organize it into a list.