If You Believe This About Love, You’re Going To Fail At It

Fairy tales are wonderful … but they’re not real…

“Someday my prince/princess will come, and they will be the one that will complete me” comes originally from Plato, in his writing The Symposium.

His character Aristophanes proclaims: “According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs, and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves … ‘Love’ is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.”

This is a huge burden to bear if you think about it like that, and even Plato himself didn’t think that people could live up to the expectation.” Source: If You Believe This About Love, You’re Going To Fail At It