| Recently my father (yes I have a dad) was talking to me about our extended family. He talked about how many of my cousins were NEETs and have pretty much given up. Then he talked about my cousins who succeeded. He said they used to be NEETs, but then got a wife, a child, and now work 7 days a week 12 hours a day, making $50 an hour. This made me think about how it's often said that a man changes for a woman and once his woman gives birth. Love can make a guy go from NEET to productive gigachad. Which makes sense, since men in history have died for women, cut off ear for women, and betrayed best homie for women. I also started thinking about a VN I read 3 months ago, Yume Miru Kusuri (a drug that makes you dream). The plot is pretty much 3 girls who've lost their dreams, learning to dream again through finding love. My dad's stories about my cousins made me think about how the 3 girls in this story was coping with life, escaping from reality and living everyday as if it were just a dream. They couldn't dream because they didn't live in reality, and dreams are only for people living in reality. Much like NEETs are living everyday like it's just a dream, and not living in reality. What I found interesting was that it wasn't only romantic love that saved them. Yes, romantic love was there, but there was also, love for child, and love for a friend. These 3 different interpersonal loves were what saved them. Is that why some of my cousins stayed NEETs, and some became gigachads? It was finding an interpersonal love that grounded them to life and gave them the ability to dream again, and thus chase those dreams? Is interpersonal love necessary for progress? |
| Absolutely. Love is one of the greatest factors when it comes to growth- be it as a parent or a lover. You will want to change for the better for the person you love, and you also would go through hardships (which will strengthen you) just to see your child happy. Although not everyone will progress, because most people are hardwired to be stuck and never change. It all depends on their personality. |
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