@claymore1998: How would you describe your relationships with your dog? What do pets provide for you?
While I do agree a lot of your opinions are understandable as from a different perspective---I have to disagree with you when it comes to your break up/death analogy. I think a common theme explored in movies, books, tv shows is that people with a lot of relationships may have past baggage that effects the quality of their future relationships. Sometimes this baggage effects their ability to trust or their ability to show weakness, but I think mostly it effects their willingness, the ease, at which they are willing to end relationships and move on to new ones. Do you really think a man or woman is as emotionally attached to the 20th person they've been in a relationship with, as say the first or second person, when the experience is new and they feel like it may last forever? If people are consciously or unconsciously going to adapt to feelings of heartbreak, it seems counter intuitive that they would go through it many times, and not put up mechanisms to prevent it from harming them at the same level once they see it as inevitable. Of course, as regular people, we hope to find a significant other that, even though they may die before us, we hope to grow old with and journey through life with. The immortal doesn't have that same luxury. Which is why someone who constantly breaks up with lovers while they're on their search for the right one(who they presumably don't plan on breaking up with) is not seeing the world through the same perspective as someone who will always watch their lover die before them a.k.a. will always and inevitably break up with their lover, following your analogy.
I'm moderately sure that the more you experience something, the less dopamine you get from it. I've never personally done drugs, but I'm aware that long term use of certain drugs makes it necessary to ingest/take higher amounts, because your body may not produce the same amount of the feeling that it did the first time. Another example is your tastebuds getting used to chocolate/certain flavors if you ingest enough without long enough breaks, and it not tasting as great as the first time. I doubt an immortal is going to be experiencing the same level of feelings--intimacy, attachment, etc.---his 999th time as his 1st or 2nd or 3rd. I know there are chemicals related to long-term commitment, I doubt he will ever see a lover as a long-term commitment.
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