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loveydoe Pony Philosophy

!ponyphilosophy #friendship From "Twenty Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy": "In a close relationship with another person, you sometimes feel that you are becoming nothing more than a fixture in his or her life. No matter how hard you try, you seem never to be able to satisfy your friend's desires. Experiencing yourself as chronically criticized, you begin to lose any sense of value. On the other hand, it is thorugh relationships that you often experience your most intense feelings of self-affirmation, of connection, of worth. Under a lover's gaze, you can find yourself transformed: you are stunningly attractive, fiercely intelligent, astonishingly sensitive. It is interesting that self-affirmation is often accompanied by a sense that there are no boundaries between you and your friend or lover: where before there were two, now there is one."