PORTFOLIO by Eszti Jászfalvi https://padlet.com/jaszfalvi_eszter/6488t6rvj2e2 YEAR 2017/2018 en-us 2017-09-10 10:14:40 UTC 2017-09-25 11:19:54 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Planets.png LOVE PROJECT jaszfalvi_eszter https://padlet.com/jaszfalvi_eszter/6488t6rvj2e2/wish/186136565 Why do we love?
Love has always been a mystery to psychologists, scientists and to regular people alike. Nobody knows why we love, but of course, everyone has their own theories about it. Love comes in many different shapes and forms, but in this piece, I'm going to talk about the romantic kind of love. Here are just a few examples of great thinkers who discussed the meaning of love ;
1. Plato
"Love makes us whole, again."
Plato was an ancient greek philosopher, who wrote that humans love in order to be complete. He thought that originally all of us had four legs, four arms, and two faces. But when humans angered the gods, Zeus sliced every one of them in two. And ever since then, we all are looking for our other half (quite literally).
2. Schopenhauer
"Love tricks us into having babies."
The german philosopher maintained that love is an illusion,
based in sexual desire. He said we love because we are tricked into thinking that the other person will make us happy. But this is false. Nature does this to us, only to make us procreate. We're basically slaves to nature's procreating cycle.
3. Russell
"Love is an escape from our loneliness."
Bertrand, the british philosopher's theory was that we love in order satisfy our physical and psychologial desires. In a cold, cruel world love can make us feel safe, warm and happy. It enriches us, stating love as the best thing in life.
4. Buddha
"Love is a misleading affliction."
As Russell, Buddha also stated that we love in order to satisfy our base desires. But, Buddha said that this was a defect. That romantic love is a source of suffering.
Cao Xueqin illustrated this sentiment, by writing Dream of the Red Chamber, which became one of China's greatest classical novels. In it, he tells the story of a man who falls in love with a girl, who humiliates him. To cure him, a priest gives him a magic mirror but warns him to do not look at the front of it. Despite this, the man looks at the front of it, and sees the girl. His soul enters the mirror, and he's dragged away to die.
The moral of the story is that we shouldn't let any attachment or romantic love into our lives, because ultimately, it can never end well.
5. Simone de Beauvoir
"Love lets us reach beyond ourselves."
The french philosopher says that love infuses our life with meaning. She focused on how we can love better, and less so on why we love in the first place. She thought the problem with traditional romantic love, is that we get so attached, we start to see it as the only reason for being. But this can easily lead to boredom and power games. So she advised to love authentically. Lovers should support each other, and help one another reach beyond themselves.
My thoughts ;
I feel closest to Simone's opinion. You have to be independent and do your own things separately. You can grow together. If you truly love someone, to me, it means that you can be your honest self in front of them, not be embarassed to say anything to them, or do anything, because you know that that person will stay by your side no matter what. You can trust each other, and laugh together. It's very important to share some sense of humour with your lover. ]]> 2017-09-10 10:19:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jaszfalvi_eszter/6488t6rvj2e2/wish/186136565 LOVE PROJECT ; Part Two jaszfalvi_eszter https://padlet.com/jaszfalvi_eszter/6488t6rvj2e2/wish/188138099 The Missing Piece
"-The missing piece cannot roll by itself! - Have you ever tried?"

The Missing Piece Meets the Big O by Shel Silverstein tells the story of one entity's slow journey of finding itself. It spends so much time waiting, trying to present itself in different manners and ways just for the purpose of finding someone who will finally accept it as their "missing piece". But something constantly gets in the way. One was too delicate, one could't roll, one didn't have a clue about anything, and one just left it on  a pedestal. At last, one fit just right. But suddenly, the missing piece started to grow. It was desperate, didn't know what to do, untill the Big O came around. O told the missing piece that it doesn't have to find somewhere to fit, it can grow and roll alone. Of course, the missing piece did not believe O, but a little while after their encounter, it started shaping into a ball, and could roll alone.
My thoughts :
I think that everyone can relate to this story. All of us are so busy finding "The One", while we have to recognize that finding ourselves is what should come first. That should be the most important thing. But I don't agree with Big O's decision to say they can't roll together. I think a person can grow while being with another person. Sometimes it can actually help. But being alone is also good. It really depends on the given person]]> 2017-09-16 10:27:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jaszfalvi_eszter/6488t6rvj2e2/wish/188138099 The Life and Death of Edgar Allan Poe jaszfalvi_eszter https://padlet.com/jaszfalvi_eszter/6488t6rvj2e2/wish/188223915 Edgar Poe was born in Massachusetts, in 1809, to parents Elizabeth and David. He had two siblings, names Rosalie and William Henry. Sadly, he became an orphan just at three years old.
So his uncle, John Allan took him in (hence the 'Allan' in Edgar's name). In 1826, he started going to the University of Virginia - most of his education took place in England and Scotland. But at the university he accumulated a great gambling debt, which unfortunately drew an edge between him and his uncle.
In 1827, he was enlisted in the army. Two years later, as a peace offering, following his wife's death,  John helped Edgar transfer to the West Point. Despite these efforts, Allan refused to financially support Poe, and when his life was over, he didn't include him in his will.
Edgar moved in with his aunt and his cousin, Virginia, and ended up marrying her, although she was only thriteen years old at the time.
He went on to work for several magazines as a literary critic, journalist, and as an editor. Around this time he started publishing his short stories, but what brought him fame, was one of his first poems, called Raven. Despite his sudden fame, he and his wife still lived under very poor conditions. Virginia passed away from an illness in 1846, at just 23 years old. Edgar followed her shortly after, in 1849. He was only 40 years old. He died in Maryland. 
There are many theories about the cause of his death (mainly pointing at alcohol and substance abuse), but one thing is for sure ; doctors found out he had congestion in his brain.  
Edgar Allan Poe was a revolutinary writer. He was one of the first to write short stories,  he was the one who founded the detective genre (it is known that Doyle's Sherlock Holmes was massively influenced by his work), he established the horror and the gothic genre, and he also inspired, and continues to inspire music, poetry and fiction.
His bibliography concludes of 70 completed poems (A Dream Within a Dream, Lenore), 1 novel (The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket), and 66 completed stories (Fall of The House of Asher, Murders in Rue Morgue). 
Style-wise he almost always layed down a grim setting, with eccentric works of art, unusual buildings and extremes of nature. He liked writing about gory, grotesque things. His stories were filled with blood, ghosts, and body parts. He had an obsession with death. 
Overall, his work left a mark on this world, and without him, what we now regard as literature, might be completely different.
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