Janie

     In the book, Their Eyes Were Watching God we are presented with Janie, a African-American woman in the early 1900's. She grew up with her grandmother so she had her grandmother's teachings, which included things about love. At the young age of 17, Janie was married. But she was not happy with this marriage, She expected to eventually fall in love but she never did. And her second marriage didn't go so well either, her being just a trophy wife. For almost 40 years, she has never found true love, mutual love. So this begs the question, is there really true love? 

     If you like to think in technical terms love is just an increase of hormones when you feel attracted to another person. This usually applies when your body/mind thinks it has found a good mating partner. But, if you would like to think in the abstract ways, love is really hard to describe. You can be shallow, opting to fall in love with a person's appearance, or you can fall in love with a person's personality, their beauty coming secondary. I like to think that there is no one true love that you hear about in fairy tales, but love of those around you. No matter where you are, you will always find someone that you like. If you think about it realistically, if you only had one person in the entire world that you would truly love, then the chances of you finding that person are very slim. Going back to the story, I think Janie is just trying to find that one person who doesn't want her to be submissive to him. As long as they say the right things, have the right morals, she will fall in love with him. There are many people with those traits, but sadly there are just a lot more people who don't.

     So I don't believe in true love, or "the one" but I do believe that you will always find someone to be attracted to. But that doesn't always mean they feel the same way about you.