Monday, October 6, 2008

Focus Activity-Chapters 17-21

Why is it important to love and be loved? Think of three reasons why companionship or love is an important part of the human experience. Discuss, blend and adjust your lists with other students.

24 comments:

emalie said...

It is important to love and be loved because it is a natural human need. Companionship is a hugely inportant part of the human experience because it gives that person someone to relate to, enjoy spending time with, and it makes you a better person. Having a good friend can make the best of someone.

Julie said...

It is important to love and be loved because without love human existence would be miserable and full of war. One reason why compassion is needed is to improve the lives of other people. If someone sees someone who needs help, they will most likely help them out instead of dxoffing at them. Another reason why compassion is important is so people will not constantly be in war. It makes the world a much more pleasant place instead of it bring full of destruction. A third reason why compassion is imporant is to make life happier for everyone. If they have someone to love, then it will make lit a lot easier to take when hard times come their way.

Michael said...

It is important to love and be loved because it fills a natural void in the human heart. Companionship is important because having another person, a mate, allows for love thus filling that void. Companionship is also important because being alone often makes the void in the heart even bigger than it would be without love. Thirdly love is an important part of the human existence because without love there would just be hate, ultimately the world would be destroyed without it because everyone would hate each other

Caroline said...

It is important to be loved and to love because it fills your heart with joy. First of all, love brings people closer together. Love between family members and friends are important because it gives you someone to talk to and it prevents loneliness. Secondly, love prevents fighting and hatred. When someone is in a fight with their friend or family member, they experience a loss of love; a certain emptiness. Love keeps people from hurting eachother. And lastly, love makes the world go around. Without love, the world would be an empty and cruel place. Even though war and hatred already exist in this world, love keeps families and friends together and helps them fight off unhappiness which constantly haunts their well being.

Boyang said...

It is important to love and be loved because all human being is born with love.
The first reason is love made people go together, form a family,that is why our parents have us. Because they love each other at the first place, no matter what happen in the end, they love each other when they have us.
The second reason is love made us feel happy.I would say that all of our happy memories are made up by love. Love between friends,love between lovers, love between family members.
The third reason is the world we live not only ourselves.There are many people live the same world like us. Of course we will have relationships with others. We will love others and be loved by others.

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Alexis said...

It is important to love and be loved because it is what human's need in order to survive the society both socially and mentally. They need to love and be loved in order for that other person and you to have a shoulder for support, a friend to talk to, and a extra hand in whatever needs to be helped.

Chelsea said...

Loving and being loved is a esential in human life, as shown in Frankenstein. It is so important to love and be loved because if you are never loved or able to love someone else you become so miserable and depressed that you are almost unable to function; you become this outcast from the world and are unable to share any companionship, which is a lack of nurturing which is a necessity in life. As shown by the Frankenstein monster in the novel he pretty much turned to killing people because no one would love him. You have to have love or you will turn on people just like the Frankenstein monster did because you need to be able to feel like someone likes you and cares about you and if no one cares then what is the point in life.

afnester said...

It is important to love and be loved because that is human nature. One reason is that this is an example of Christ, since we founded on Christianity. He led the example to love people and to be loved by others. Second example is that the opposite sex "completes" the other by same emotions, thoughts, background, and goals in life. The last reason is that having a companion can help you through life, because some people cannot do it all alone. A companion is needed for help, support and love.

Kara said...

It is important to love and be loved because it fills a person's heart with love and sympathy. Without it, things in the world would be dreary and full of hatred. You can enjoy things with other people, and experience it with someone. It makes you a happier person when you can talk to others and be happy. Companionship and love is important because if someone doesnt have it then the person, like Frankenstein, will turn on people.

emalie said...

Kara, I like how you pointed out that love creates sympathy and compassion. That is so true. If you don't feel like you are being loved by someone else, you will have no sympathy or love for anyone.

Alexis said...

Chelsea,
I agree with your answer. People probably would not be able to function if they were not loved by anybody. Without this, like you said, people could get violent just like creature.

Charlotte said...
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Charlotte said...

It is important to love and be loved, because humans have such a great capability of loving and receiving love from others. It is human nature to be drawn to those who treat you well and show you compassion. Having people who you love and who love you makes hardships and obstacles in life easier to overcome. Happiness and joy are also better when shared with loved ones. When nurtured in an environment of love, humans have the ability to achieve great things.

Luke said...

To love and be loved is important for humans. It is capable of providing purpose and is a way in which to fend off complete apathy, which would have devastating effects on human civilization. However, I must disagree with my classmates on one major point. They all infer, or directly state, that this emotion must be directed at other humans. I disagree on this point, as I believe that people can be perfectly content while having no contact with the rest of their species. All they would need to do would be to direct their love at a cause instead of a person.

Jessica said...

All through history people have thought that love and to be loved was all important. Truthfully love is just an attachment. It is truly companionship that makes everyone happy.

A few reasons why companionship is important, are that, alone you don't have anyone to have an attachment to, making you hate everyone and everything. Also, if there is no one who understands the things you have and are going through, what's the point of living? Lastly, the allusion of love makes everyone happier, so the world is not full of hate.

Audrey! said...

To me, love is the most important emotion that humans can experience. It means someone to share your successes with and someone to pick you up when you fall. It's someone who will always be there for you. Love brings out the best in people, because you want to be your best for someone else. A companion should make you feel so happy that you want to share that happiness with others, and make the world a better place.

emily said...

Love is an essential part of human nature and humans are unable to function without it. Without love, people are miserable and lonely. People need companionship and for people to show them love to be able to make it through life. It is important for people to have someone to rely on and for them to always be able to trust and confide in. Also, love is the only thing keeping people in the world from completely destroying each other and for these reasons, it is extremely important to love and be loved.

grace said...

Love is the strongest emotion that a person can possibly experience. It is important to be loved because it serves as a “filler” for a void in one’s life, helps people learn more about themselves, and enhances one’s self-assurance. To love someone requires some sort of sign to show how much they mean to you. People who love are happier than people that only experience being loved by someone. It’s kind of like the saying “It’s better to give than to receive”- the saying applies to the notion of love. For some reason or another, people naturally feel better about themselves when they realize their impact on others.

grace said...

Luke, you are right in saying that a person can love not just another person, but a “cause” cannot love back. The whole idea of love has to do with a mutual connection, which can only be shared between people. But I know what you mean, because I could say “I LOVE Boy George” or “I LOVE Star Wars”, but neither of those things can love back so it is a different type of love that you are talking about. Ok, I’m confusing myself now =b

Alexis said...

Luke,
I agree with you statement about how a person could also love a cause and not a person! I mean there are lots of people in the world that do not get married or do not have family but are perfectly content with that because they love their jobs or hobby.

jilly said...

Being loved is like having food and water for humans. We need it to survive. It makes us hurt inside and eventually go mad without the love and devotion from another person. Life becomes possible with someone to love :)

Nathaniel said...

It is important to love and be loved because love is an unfortunate natural requirement of the human race. Love does have some important benefits. The main additional benefit is that love is able to help prevent constant warfare which would result in a smaller population and result in smaller, more pathetic wars. Love is indirectly responsible for allowing us to have the great world wars. Through the peace it can cause, more powerful weapons are invented. Without love, constant warfare would have prevented people from being able to invent superior weapons. This would mean that the human race would still be fighting with stone weapons rather than nuclear ICBM’s or even our more conventional munitions. A third reason that love is important is that it allows the intelligent and rational person to easily manipulate a weaker and less intelligent person that cannot overcome their emotions. While this is true of all emotions, love is more powerful than most others (only hate and fear are equal in strength). As logic is far more important than emotions, love helps to allow the superior minority of the population to rule the weak and pathetic majority. Although the weak occasionally manage to do something incredibly stupid and unpredictable, love helps to keep this to a minimum. A great example of this is politicians. They love money so the intelligent people, who will manage to make some money because of their superior natural abilities, give these politicians a small fraction of their wealth to keep the politicians doing what is best for the superior class of people. This shows why it is important to love and be loved.