Rest In Peace, Platonic Love

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Rest in Peace, Platonic Love So you’re looking for your Prince Charming. Your Mr. Perfect with whom you share that ‘spiritual’, non-sexual (well not as yet) connection. The one who will catch you when you swoon in his arms. The tall, dark and handsome man who is intimate with you in mind and soul but does not desire a sexual connection in order to be in a relationship. The man who will love you unconditionally and ‘platonically’. Who are you kidding??? Sorry to burst your bubble, but that man does not exist anymore. And I sneakily suspect, he never did. And ‘platonic love’? Well let’s just say, it’s on its death bed as of now. First off, here’s what platonic love is. It is a close relationship in which sexual desire is non-existent or has been suppressed or sublimated. Probably it did exist once upon a time, but it’s counting its last breaths now. “Some time ago my close friend got into a relationship, another friend of mine asked her what base she had reached with the guy. “Ewwww...” She said, “We don’t do ‘all that’! Our relationship is based on the beautiful philosophy of platonic love.” And before I knew it, 6 months later she was in bed with her ‘chaste soul-mate’. Pssst... Honey, you can get on charm for say, a few months or so, but after that you better have voluptuous body-parts or an enormous pay-check! It really isn’t a bad thing at all, rather, at least she was strong and mature enough to take control of her body.” I wanted to dig deeper into how it all started. Platonic love, I mean. And how a perfectly sane (well, as far as we know) philosopher disregarded something which is a regular life process in nearly all living beings on the planet. So Platonic love is a deep and spiritual connection between two individuals. Within such a relationship there does not exist any form of sexual connection or elements. But this interpretation is a
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