Morrie Aphorisms Project

The aphorism I chose was, " without love, we are birds with broken wings" What I think Morrie means by this is that love is a fundamental part of being a happy or satisfied person. Without it we tend to look for things to replace it. Things like gambling, drugs, money, etc. Looking for something better than love tends to take up most of people's life and can essentially leave them crippled. (In a figurative sense)  another way to interpret this is that the broken wing represents the lack of freedom that comes with not knowing love. Love  frees people to be able to show affection towards others and to receive the same affections. And the bird is the ultimate symbol of freedom, hence a bird with a broken wing so someone who is not free to show their emotions because they don't know love.

Probably one of the best (in my opinion) and most literal examples of this is Harry Potter.  In the book one of the most important part of the plot is a prophecy that claims that Harry is the chosen one and has "a power the dark Lord knows not" which is literally love.  The fact that Harry's mother loved him enough to die for him is the one thing that Voldemort did not expect and as such he was unable to kill Harry.  Since Voldemort it is unable to feel love he does not anticipate that anybody would love their child enough to die for them and as a result  is destroyed. This continues to be a reoccurring theme in all of the books as people who love Harry help him even though that tends to ruin their lives.  Voldemort continues to be basically blindsided by this as he can't feel love and can't relate to them.

 I really agree with this aphorism, because it kind of just makes sense to me .  I mean the majority of us wouldn't have survived past being infants if it wasn't for the fact that our mother loved us enough to keep dealing with all the stress that raising a child brings.  Then later on in life if it was for the support and love from friends and family many of us would've given up on a lot of things. So although some  people will say that putting love above everything else make somebody weak and easy to manipulate, in reality love is a driving force in our society. Its been shown in a lot of pop culture too.  The basic premise behind romantic comedies trying to find love, sure they find it in a funny way but they do find it .

I think my  on aphorism would be something like, " just deserves is called that for a reason, it is deserved"  this is something that I really believe in as I feel that somebody who does something deserving of punishment can't really complain because they did something to earn it. If they  decided to do an action then they should have to do with the consequences.