Love And Devotion Everlasting Concepts With Innumerable...

Love and Devotion: Everlasting Concepts with Innumerable Meanings It’s said that college will be the best years of your life. So far college has encompassed the most stressful, depressing, challenging, but above all enriching months of my near nineteen years. Rainbow Rowell of Fangirl once described physical time in college, describing that â€Å"months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they re like dog months†. Over this four month semester, which felt like an entire high school year, a lot has happened and I’ve changed significantly. I’ve become more confident, more open, more accepting; I woke up. I woke up from the trance that I was in, living day by day being told what to do and when to do it; a structured, controlled schedule that was my reality. Therefore, in college and in this course, my views on love and devotion have changed; and the studying of great texts such as the Plato’s Symposium, the Book of Ruth in the Heb rew Bible, and the Bhagavad Gita have contributed to the expansion of my knowledge on such abstract topics. Love holds various meanings that vary from person to person, which is largely what is so remarkable about it. Love is an emotion, a drive, an expression; love is many things combined into one strong pull to some force. In The Symposium, love holds many interpretations by the various speakers, but to Socrates himself, love is the desire to attain perfection and beautyShow MoreRelatedVictorian Novel9605 Words   |  39 Pagesâ€Å"History is the essence of innumerable biographies†, claimed Carlyle. Biography itself had a huge influence on the shape of the Victorian fiction. The biography takes its origin back in the Romantic experience of a unique and developing individual reflected in the genre of ‘self-development romance’. However, the romantic biography did not bring the subject to the novel but rather changed its scope of focus to the nature and meanin g of human life itself. That concept found a strong affinity with