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Relationships and Us
Relationships are a major part of anyone's life. though they are not always good, they can have a extraordinary impact on someone's life. Some people are in the kind of relationship that seems almost too good to be true, and others are in a relationship that feels like you are almost certain that certain disaster will come of it and that you are scared of the other person. In an average relationship there are two categories that you could fall into. The reacher and the settler. The reacher is someone who would do anything to date someone of a higher social or monetary class. this is most commonly seen among high school students who have been outcasts or neglected from social events such as dances, stuco reps, etc. Then there are the Settlers who settle for a lower class individual to go out with due to a multitude of reasons from trying to be modest to feeling sorry for the reacher and his/her determined attempts to try to go out with a higher class individual. Settlers are usually the less dominant individual and generally does what the reacher wants them to so as to make the reacher feel as if he/she is in power. Most people don't like to admit that they are either one but that is the general format of most relationships that I have observed in my community and other areas that I have recently visited. There are only a few instances that I have seen a reacher with a reacher and a settler with a settler but those are few.
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This was interesting to read as I have never heard anything like this before, although I can't say that I agree with you. I do have a few points to make though:
1) The piece was rife with grammatical and spelling errors.
2) You stated your opinion far too strongly; almost as if it was fact, without as much as statistical data or thorough explanation.
3) The length was odd, and there were no discernable paragraphs.
Keep up the work, but this is rough. I would like to hear more of your opinion on this if you cleaned it up and polished it off. :)
Okay, I have a lot of criticism.
1. Work on your grammar. You need to capitalize some words and use commas way more often. Some of your sentences are awkward as well.
2. Back up your assertions. Have you really never seen love? Are there only 'reachers' and 'settlers'? Of course not. So try to find statistics or facts (if there even are any) that back up your opinions.
3. Break up your work into paragraphs to make it easier to read.
um....................what??
reacher, settler? Category?
What you have mistaken, Kevin, is that while you've been writing this, have you thought very closely about what your writing about? LOVE is what your writing about, when you say all this. LOVE.
LOVE is a deep emotion. It cant be categorized. You cant just go up to someone and ask "are you a settler or a reacher?" It doesnt work that way. Some people have strong feelings for others NOT from sympathy or cause they were neglected or whatever. Maybe it has NOTHING to do with social standing (shocker) but the way someone makes you feel, the urge to be with someone else, how you would put someone else before you for love, cause that person knows just how to make you smile. Maybe people like each other for that reason. Or chemistry, for instance. CHEMISTRY CAN APPLY TO ANYONE IT IS NOT CHOSEN.
when you were observing these people, did you know any of them? Did they tell you their life story?
LOVE ISNT LOGIC, AND IT ISNT SCIENCE TO BE CATEROGORIZED.
Havent you ever had a huge (or even small) crush on someone? How did you feel?
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