I was up reading and stumbled upon this.
It is an interesting idea, really. It comes straight from Plato's Symposium:
"People were hermaphrodites until God split them in two. Now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves that we have lost."
And it goes on to say...
"And when one of them meets with his other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy, and will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment. These are the people who pass their whole lives together; yet they could not explain what they desire of one another. For the intense yearning which each of them has towards the other does not appear to be the desire of lover's intercourse, but of something else which the soul of either evidently desires and cannot tell ...."
I love that. Good work Plato.
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that was the most funny yet romantic thing i've heard all night
Crazy Plato! I like it, though. Good job, Melia!
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