A reaction on Max Schulman's "Love is a Fallacy"

Max Schulman's “Love is a Fallacy” is one of the best love stories I already read. At first, I had a hard time understanding the story for it has so many unfamiliar words to me. But just as I read it over and over again, it makes me understand it much better and it makes me love the story so much. It talks about one reality in life, when you fall in love and how are you willing to take those risk just for that love.

It was actually a “.love triangle”. I really appreciated the main character. He must really be a good guy. He did everything for the girl and choose to spend his time with her. That what must all guys should do!*laugh*...But it still ends up that the girl(Polly) choose the main character's friend(Petey) over him,and the worst thing is that Polly choose Petey over him just because he had a raccoon coat. She only liked him just because of that material thing that made him belong to the “Big Men” in school, what a shallow reason,right? (But that's just my opinion! )...But how can she choose Petey over this guy who did everything for her and was so true to his feelings? The guy who choose to be with her than Petey, the one she barely even know most especially when it talks about sincerity of love.

For me, love cannot be test through a material thing. If he gives you flowers and chocolates or not. If he spends a lot on your dates and always treat you for a dinner and an outing. But love? It's how sincere the person is, of how that person is willing to do everything for your love and those things he can give up for you. Most especially? It's not important for me if “my boyfriend” is famous and popular and is known to be one of the coolest guy who got the cutest look and wear those branded, cool jeans and stuff...but what matters most is that i know he is worth to be my boyfriend and I love him not just because of any material thing but the real him without those factors that makes up a “popular, cool guy!”

I don't know why the story entitled “Love is a Fallacy”. Fallacy is defined as erroneousness, an invalid reference or the quality of being deceptive. But is love really a false notion? Maybe when people say, a wrong timing and not in the right time yet. But you never choose the person you fell in love to. Most especially you'll never know when that happens and why that happened. So, when love comes our way, we can never avoid it and especially love can never be a false notion because falling in love is beyond our control...Well..in some points of life, things happen for a reason just as when love knocks your door, let it in for it has a reason!

LoVe Is a FallAcy by Max Schulman

Think of it! -I was just only eighteen having a powerful, precise brain penetrating as a scalpel. I was a cool, logical, keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute,astute kind of person.

I had this roommate named Petey at the university. We have the same age and background. He is that emotional , unstable and impressionable type. Then one afternoon, I saw Petey lying in his bed with a expression of such distress on his face just as i thought he was suffering from appendicitis. When I approached him, he told me and mumbled thickly that he wanted a raccoon coat which makes me think that he is seriously not having a trouble in physical,but mental. Then I told him that it is unsanitary, they smell awful and that they weigh too much so, why would he like one?Then Petey made interruptions of what I am saying. He was saying to me that all of the big men in our campus are wearing them so,Petey must be jealous of these men wearing raccoon coats. But because of his impatient interruption, it really makes me say that he would do anything just for a raccoon coat and he really badly wants it.

Just as we were having a conversation, It so happened that I knew where to get my hands on a raccoon coat. My father had one in his undergraduate days; it lay now in a trunk in the attic back home. It also happened that Petey had something I also wanted and that is Polly Espy, the girl I wanted for a shrewdly calculated, entirely cerebral reason. Petey didn't have her exactly, but at least he had first rights on her.

I was a freshman in a law school then. My desire for this young woman was not emotional in nature. Beautiful, gracious, with manners she was! But what bothers me is that she is not intelligent. But I taught of making her my perfect wife through my learning.

I went home for a weekend then after my conversation with Petey, trying to do better than lending him some money to buy a raccoon coat.

I returned to the campus the next Monday morning bringing the raccoon coat of my father. Petey was so happy to see the raccoon coat. I told him that I would only give him the raccoon coat if he allows Polly and me to go on a date. Few minutes later, he told me that it was a deal. He agreed on what would happen if he accepts the coat.

I had my first date with Polly the following evening. This was in the nature of a survey; I wanted to find out just how much work I had to do to get her mind up to the standard I required. We had a dinner, watched a movie and brought her back home.The girl had a lack of information.

On our next date, we had a logic talked. She wanted me to talk more of these but it was already late in the evening when i got to check my watch. Because of this, we had to stop the conversation and I had to bring her back to the girl’s dormitory. Then I went to my room. I saw Petey lying on the bed with the raccoon coat as if he was hugging cuddling a beast on his arms.

On our next dates, I concluded now that Polly fits to be my wife. She really made me impressed about the last fallacy we discussed. And it does shows that she is really attentive in it.

Time come that I told Polly everything. That I fell in love with her even just for five span of nights that we've been together but she answered me that it was all a fallacy. A Hasty Generalization, a false analogy, Ad Misericordiam and all those fallacies we talked about. And she told me that she will not go steady with me but instead to Petey.I shouted because of anger and disappointment. I once again asked her why she chose Petey over me. I asked for a logical reason. She then told me that “it is all because Petey had a raccoon coat.”

IRREPLACEABLE

Things could not be any better than having you in my life. You are my inspiration and my shoulder to cry on, you're the one who stands by me through everything and most of all, you make me know that I am loved. There is no one that completes me the way that you do. You mean everything to me.There is nothing that I would not do for you and there is no one else I would want to share my life with. You are the reason I get up each morning and come to work, and you make me look at life with a new perspective. I have never met anyone as wonderful as you. I really miss you.There are so many things that I am grateful for I can't even count. You have been there for me through thick and thin and I thank you for giving me that opportunity to get to know you and for always being there for me. You mean so much to me, it's so unbelievable that I have someone such as you. Even when I am down you are there for me. Things have been so hectic that I could not have wanted anyone to be there for me but you. You have been the stability in my life and this is just a note to let you know that I love you.

Baby, you are my sun, my moon, and my whole universe. I love you for who you are and what you make of me when I am with you. With the exceptions of my parents and you, there has never been anyone in my life whom I could have depended on through the tough times in my life. There are many times when you've taken what I was feeling upon yourself and I feel that it is not necessary, but I thank you for it, and I know now that I am important to you. There are so many things that I can thank you for but that will be impossible for me to do because there are so many ....

Never in a million years did I ever think that I could find the kind of happiness and love that I have found with you. You are a dream come true and I'm really glad that fate brought us together. It was a little difficult going at first, we had so many obstacles to overcome and friends doubted it would work out, but look at how much we showed them!

Baby, I really think that this time it is for real. No one can replace you and if anything happens to you, I don't know what I'd do without you. You are the one person that I love dearly. You are my life and everything revolves around you. You seem to hold my whole life in your hands. You always make the whole room light up when you enter it, and you just know how to be my star, but you're not my star ... you are my angel! I love you so much…
Happy Valentines Day!!!

Men are not superior!

Men are stronger than women and they are superior! Of course not! What I will agree to is that we are equal and we can do what men can do.

I am ashamed to admit that I am weaker than men, physically. But just think about it. Now there are girl who played basketball and the one who will work for a living when it's a guy stuff. So we are not that weak.We can do men's stuff if we wanted to. But most of the girls choose not to because that's not what we like. And that's the reason why men say they are superior! Because stuff they do acquires more physically energy than wome's stuff. In fact, I'd consider that women are much stronger , not physically but when it comes to physiological issues because we have that emotional strenght. We can agree that men are stronger than women, physically. But history proved to us that women have had the ability to resist, to bear suffering and pain. And I believed that men will be abolished
right now, women will survived but leave the man alone and they will kill themselves.

Women are are underined and underestimated because they are just women. And men are superior because God is a man. That's why long time ago, they think only a man can rule and emperors are suceeded by their sons and not their daughters. Even a single thought didn't come to their minds that women can rule, that God doesn't have a favorite among genders and ,made us all equal.
As what I have read in an article about superiority, males have been jealous about females that they can give birth or bear life. So males used their strenght and size in order to try to overcome their envy. So no males are definitely more important than women.I hate the term when women are the weaker sex that when we want to go through labour and other paints,people say "it doesn't fit you!". Why does it doesn't fit when we can do it? LOOK!!!! we are the balance of the universe that everything in the world must be balanced. Women are not created to be dolls and only responds to men's desires. We have a mind and a soul to use. We women have to be treated the same way a man would be.