The Unhealthy Love

Have you ever loved something or somebody, but at the same time you are making them suffer or making yourself suffer? I speak with experience, I used to love tennis, although I applied to much stress, later I had to drop it, it wasn’t healthy. Or maybe when you love someone and you sacrifice allot for the relationship, you know that sacrificing yourself too much isn’t healthy. The story of Apollo and Hyacinthus represents, the unhealthy love.“Apollo was passionately fond of a youth named Hyacinthus. He accompanied him in his sports, carried the nets when he went fishing, led the dogs when he went to hunt, followed him in his excursions in the mountains, and neglected for him his lyre and his arrows. One day they played a game of quoits together, and Apollo, heaving aloft the discus, with strength mingled with skill, sent it high and far. Hyacinthus watched it as it flew, and excited with the sport ran forward to seize it, eager to make his throw, when the quoit bounded from the earth and struck him in the forehead. He fainted and fell.” (Bulfinch, page 70)There are two types of the unhealthy love:· You, damaging yourself.· You, damaging others.Both are present in everyone’s life. I want to emphasize an unhealthy love. The one society has, we don’t know if it’s a suicide or an assassination. Although it is killing us, we take one step more and two back. Some people have present the damage, they can make a change. We are killing:· Our environment: pollution, deforestation, ect.· The economy and the people: poverty, wars, corruption, ambition, ect· Other aspects such as peace, politics, and democracy.We are having a painful death. Humans should life with, and in the balance of nature. Let’s hope someday someone will have an earnest desire to save the world.