The Meaning of Life: loving deeply
Is it better to be loved by the masses or to be loved deeply by one person? This is the essence of the question that Hazel Grace poses to Augustus Waters at a time when he is feeling depressed. She loves him deeply and truly, and she wants that to be enough. Waters, however, has been fixated on his story, the one that was supposed to be epic, for all of his life. He finds it hard to focus on what he has as he focuses on what he wants.
The Fault in Our Stars isn’t the only form of media to deal with the most important things in life. The Bible says that it’s most important figure, God, is love, and it follows that Christ exhorts his followers to love their neighbors, love their brothers, and love their God. Eternal love is at the heart of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Almost every hit song before the 1990s is about love and many more songs are about love, its loss or some other expression of it.
What may be missed in all of the hype about Shailene Woodley’s performance in The Fault in Our Stars and the love story between two terminally ill teens is that the parents in this film love their children deeply. Sometimes, it may not seem like enough, but it does make things okay.
Among the top five things that dying people regret are not making time for family or friends, not expressing feelings and not allowing oneself to feel happy. People are social. As much as people take it in their minds to dislike one another, the reality is that life is about love. It may not be about finding the one companion. It may not be about a soul mate. It is about whom one loves and how deep that love goes. That love can be the agape love of the divine as demonstrated by Mother Theresa, the philia of brotherly love as demonstrated by many members of the military, or even the eros of lovers as demonstrated by Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters.
Read the review of The Fault in Our Stars movie
Read The Fault in Our Stars and what it means to live
Read Shailene Woodley: Action Star?
Read The Fault in Our Stars book review
Top 5 quotes from the book The Fault in Our Stars
The Last Good Day
Hazel Grace and the scars we leave behind
The Fault in Our Stars isn’t the only form of media to deal with the most important things in life. The Bible says that it’s most important figure, God, is love, and it follows that Christ exhorts his followers to love their neighbors, love their brothers, and love their God. Eternal love is at the heart of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Almost every hit song before the 1990s is about love and many more songs are about love, its loss or some other expression of it.
What may be missed in all of the hype about Shailene Woodley’s performance in The Fault in Our Stars and the love story between two terminally ill teens is that the parents in this film love their children deeply. Sometimes, it may not seem like enough, but it does make things okay.
Among the top five things that dying people regret are not making time for family or friends, not expressing feelings and not allowing oneself to feel happy. People are social. As much as people take it in their minds to dislike one another, the reality is that life is about love. It may not be about finding the one companion. It may not be about a soul mate. It is about whom one loves and how deep that love goes. That love can be the agape love of the divine as demonstrated by Mother Theresa, the philia of brotherly love as demonstrated by many members of the military, or even the eros of lovers as demonstrated by Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters.
Read the review of The Fault in Our Stars movie
Read The Fault in Our Stars and what it means to live
Read Shailene Woodley: Action Star?
Read The Fault in Our Stars book review
Top 5 quotes from the book The Fault in Our Stars
The Last Good Day
Hazel Grace and the scars we leave behind