{"id":30,"date":"2007-04-10T18:07:25","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T01:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/2007\/04\/10\/on-belonging\/"},"modified":"2007-04-10T18:07:25","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T01:07:25","slug":"on-belonging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/2007\/04\/10\/on-belonging\/","title":{"rendered":"On belonging"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is actually a post in response to Dr. C’s comment on my previous post about belonging to someone and “intense, romantic love.”\u00c2\u00a0 But that’s not really what I mean when I talk about belonging to someone, and I’m not sure if that’s what Robert Nathan means either.\u00c2\u00a0 I think that intense, romantic love can sometimes go hand in hand with belonging to someone.\u00c2\u00a0 You can maybe be romantically involved with a soul mate, but you don’t have to be.\u00c2\u00a0 I think you can be soul mates without it being\u00c2\u00a0romantic at all.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually, I think this is a real problem–because when you realize that someone is your soul mate, how\u00c2\u00a0do\u00c2\u00a0we know how to deal with that knowledge except to try and be with them romantically?\u00c2\u00a0 If you know you belong with someone you want to completely belong to them.\u00c2\u00a0 But that can’t always work.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0In Portrait of Jennie<\/em>, Eben eventually is able to be romantically involved with Jennie, because she is moving at a different time as him, and is able to grow up quickly enough to find him and be with him (however shortly).\u00c2\u00a0 But when she was a little girl, and Eben was an adult, they still knew that they belonged together.\u00c2\u00a0 It was just that when they were with one another, they knew that that was where they were supposed to be.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s why this is so troubling–it’s because it’s not the romantic love that is important, really.\u00c2\u00a0 Hopefully that works out too, but the concept that I think this book shows so beautifully and hauntingly is that two souls can simply be a part of one another, with no other explanation except that they are, regardless of circumstance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is actually a post in response to Dr. C’s comment on my previous post about belonging to someone and “intense, romantic love.”\u00c2\u00a0 But that’s not really what I mean when I talk about belonging to someone, and I’m not sure if that’s what Robert Nathan means either.\u00c2\u00a0 I think that intense, romantic love can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}