<p>“A man ambushed a stone. Caught it. Made it a prisoner.Put it in a dark room and stood guard over it for the rest of his life.His mother asked why.He said, because it’s held captive, because it is captured.Look, the stone is asleep, she said, it does not know whether it’s in a garden or not. Eternity and the stone are mother and daughter; it is you who are getting old.The stone is only sleeping.But I caught it, mother, it is mine by conquest, he said. A stone is nobody’s, not even its own. It is you who are conquered; you are minding the prisoner, which is yourself,because you are afraid to go out, she said.Yes yes, I am afraid, because you have never loved me, he said. Which is true, because you have always been to me as the stone is to you, she said.”</p>
<p>What Panic said reminded me of this… It was on a Regents English exam a few years ago, and I feel really bad for the people who had it. It’s really neat to think about, but I’d say it sucks as a timed essay prompt. Can you try to love someone without holding yourself captive in the process?</p>
<p>Love is undeniably a form of bondage.
Now bondage can be a good thing - strong links or “bonds” between people based on trust, compromise, mutual care, etc.
Or bondage can be a bad thing - slavery, enforced will upon others, abuse, etc.</p>
<p>There is healthy love and there is unhealthy love.</p>
<p>I don’t know if that has anything to do with the prompt?</p>
<p>I’m tired, I’ll be off to bed now… I have to fiddle with my alarm clock, it didn’t go off this morning. ): Night all, pleasant dreams all around!</p>
<p>some part of you is held captive, good or bad love. if that person dies, you will mourn. if they hurt you you will dwell on it. nothing someone you love, healthy love or not, does will not hold you in some way or another.</p>
<p>To quote myself (which, I admit, is pretty lame), “Love is undeniably a form of bondage.” Regardless of whether it is healthy or not, emotional attachment chains a person to another, creates those “bonds” that can deeply affect a person, even/especially in death.</p>
<p>So is it better to love and be “captive” or not to love and be “free”?</p>
<p>I’m here, but only for the next ten minutes or so. I’ve already abandoned calculus homework for the night. CC is like a time vortex; you log on, and suddenly 2 hours have passed before you know it…</p>
<p>Bones! We’re finally getting to those in Zoology class (well, vertebrates…soon, after echinoderma). God, we spent half the year on worms and arthropods…</p>