should originally be dealt with together with the Valentine Projects in February.
Niamh is an extraordinary human being, a compulsive writer of good stories and I´m going to quote literally what she writes about her own life: " We are born with such wonder for life. Everything is bright colours and rainbows. Then, school starts and we get thrown into the real world of anxiety, depression,Obsessive Compulsive Disorders, OCD,ADHD, bipolar disorders,neurosis, competition, schizophrenia, abuse,fear, self-harm, anorexia, suicide..." As a teenager´s life can be so hard it´s easy to understand this idealization of love as a way of venting out anger, escaping humdrum realities and projecting positive feelings.
There´s plenty of good websites on the net to discover what love is for other people:
Love is quotes; Honeymoons.about.com; Love quotes; Brainy quotes,23 things that love is; etc..
LOVE IS...
FRIENDSHIP THAT HAS CAUGHT FIRE (ANNA LANDERS)
FRIENDSHIP FOR LIFE
NOT SOMETHING YOU FIND. IT IS SOMETHING THAT FINDS YOU(L.Y.)
QUIET UNDERSTANDING
MUTUAL CONFIDENCE
THE ONLY FACE CAPABLE OF TRANSFORMING AN ENEMY INTO A FRIEND (M.L.KING)
LIKE WAR: EASY TO BEGIN BUT HARD TO END
BEING STUPID TOGETHER (PAUL VALERY)
LIKE A BEAUTIFUL FLOWER WHICH I MAY NOT TOUCH (H. KELLER)
MUSIC
NEVER LOST( WASHINGTON IRVING)
A GAME THAT TWO CAN PLAY AND BOTH WIN
OUR MOTHER
RESPECT
THE TRIUMPH OF IMAGINATION OVER INTELLIGENCE (H.L.MENCKEN)
LIKE A TATTOO: ONCE YOU´VE GOT IT , IT´S HARD AND HURTFUL TO GET RID OF.
PATIENT, KIND (CORINTHIANS)
WHEN FOREVER ISN´T LONG ENOUGH
KNOWING THEY HAVE FAULTS BUT NOT CARING
AN EMBRACE EVEN WHEN YOU ARE FURIOUS
KNOWING YOU ARE A BETTER PERSON JUST BECAUSE THEY EXIST IN YOUR WORLD.
WHEN IT DOES NOT MATTER IF YOU ARE A GRYFFINDOR AND HE´S A SLYTHERIN
HOW JACK LOVED ROSE AND HOW ROMEO LOVED JULIET...
TELLING THEM YOU LIKE THEIR T-SHIRT AND THEN THEY ALWAYS WEAR IT.
WHEN EVERY LOVE SONG YOU HEAR IS SUDDENLY ABOUT THE TWO OF YOU.
WATCHING HUNDREDS OF ROMANTIC MOVIES AND YET THINKING WHAT YOU HAVE IS BETTER
STRONGER AND LOUDER THAN THE PRESSURE TO BE PERFECT
INSULTING EACH OTHER AND NEVER BEING OFFENDED
WANTING TO MAKE THEM SMILE EVEN WHEN THEY ARE ILL, SNOTTY AND DISGUSTING.
WHEN THEY LOVE THE THINGS YOU HATE ABOUT YOURSELF.
WHEN A DAY IS NOT COMPLETE UNLESS YOU´VE SPOKEN TO THEM.
GIVING SOMEONE PEMISSION TO CRUSH YOUR HEART BUT TRUSTING THEM NOT TO.
WHEN SOMEBODY CARES ENOUGH TO BREAK DOWN THE WALLS YOU BUILT AROUND YOURSELF.
YOUR LAST ROLO
SAYING YOU´RE SORRY EVEN WHEN YOU ARE RIGHT
THE LIGHT IN THE DARK FOREST
SUPPORTING EACH OTHER THROUGH THICK AND THIN
WHEN YOU CAN´T STOP THINKING OF THAT ONE PERSON
WHEN A WORD BRIGHTENS UP YOUR DAY
THE ONLY THING THAT CAN COVER UP PAIN
OXYGEN
ALL YOU NEED
MYSTERIOUS
WATER IN THE DESERT
AN EVERLASTING SUMMER
METAPHYSICAL GRAVITY (R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER)
WHO YOU WANT TO BE WITH FOREVER
SOMEONE YOU CAN´T LIVE WITHOUT
A GROSS EXAGGERATION OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ONE PERSON AND EVERYBODY ELSE ( G.B. SHAW)
A FEELING THAT CREEPS UP ON YOU WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT
SOMETHING SPECIAL, AN INWARD FEELING
THE DELIGHTFUL INTERVAL BETWEEN MEETING A BEAUTIFUL GIRL AND DISCOVERING THAT SHE LOOKS LIKE A HADDOCK (JOHN BARRYMORE)
GOD
AND, FINALLY, LOVE IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE.
1)Try to classify the above statements into categories: Courtly love, Romantic, Neoplatonic, Christian, etc..
2) Find love songs with the word love; Ex.: Love me do, Love me tender, ;My love, Loving you, I will always love you,l.o.v.e.; love story; love me like you do; lovers on the sun; etc..
3) We´ve seen what love is, should be or can be. Write sentences about what LOVE IS NOT......
4) Questions.: IS LOVE.........?
5) Do you believe in LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT/BITE/NIGHT?
6) LOVE EVOLVES, doesn´t it?
7) Love your job. Which profession would you ideally like to have?
8) Define : lovebirds
luv
lovey-dovey
love ( in tennis)
love-stricken
9) Find duplicatives such as hocus pocus, higgledy-piggledy, wishy-washy,etc..
10) Write a brief composition on My first love.....
11) The chemistry of love. Learn about norepiphedrine,dopamine,endorphins,adrenalin
12) T-shirts love slogans and catchphrases. Invent your own motto.
13) I love you because ..... Write ten more reasons as in the following text:
Just to tell you why I love
you
"I love you because of your lovely eyes and because of the way you smile
and the way you do your piglet imitation. Because of your endless patience and
because of your occasional irritability. Because of the way you dance, and the
way you look so hurt when I criticize your shirts. Because you like silly music
that you can do silly movements to. Because you have stopped wearing your boots
and that striped woolly hat that your grandmother knit for you. Because of the
funny position that you sleep in, and the things you say before you are
properly awake in the morning. Because of your repeated “joke” about being
unfaithful, though by now this is beginning to wear a bit thin. Because you are
so nice to everyone which makes you the nicest person in the world and because
you make my dinner and mended my bike and always get rid of the crumbs in the
bed, and because you listen when I´m moaning away, and because you look after
me when I’m ill or worried or have nightmares, and you make me laugh ever so
much and because of your body which is very nice to cuddle, and your hair which
is just getting curly again and because of your attempts at risqué “men of the
world” jokes which are very silly but which you can’t tell properly anyway and
because you make my breakfast and because of your voice which us both fragile and musical and because…"
(Heartfelt thanks to Lara Fernández Acosta for transcribing the original and genuine love text, written over 50 years ago)
