Can Lovers See Clearly?

    To me, Love is blind. It can mean that someone refuses to see his or her partners clearly but rather tries to avoid seeing it or someone sees the shortcomings of his or her other half but chooses to still blindly admire or love the other half. The couple in the Twilight sags, Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, fell in love with each other after they first met. Without any hint about Edward’s personality or the fact that he is a vampire, she just blindly fell in love with her perfect type of mysterious man. Edward, too, fell in love immediately he met Bella and could not stop thinking about her. However, there seems to be no specific or concrete reason why he chose Bella out of all girls he might have known better in school. Even though they get to know each other better after they are together, it is blindness or the unrealistic imagination of perfection that brought them together. 
    Another couple is the one in a Taiwanese movie called ”You are the Apple of My Eyes”. This is a story that happened to two lovers who did not officially get together but is in love with each other. The love between them is also blind. Although the two of them saw each other’s personality and did not like each other so much when they first met, they fell for each other in the end. The boy used to think that the girl is too obnoxious and too much of a nerd. The girl used to think that the boy is too immature and too indolent on school work. However, when the two people who have a so different character had some to get to know each other, they surprisingly fell in love. They might have found out some advantages in each person’s character, but I still think without blindness, they may not fall in love at all due to their bias toward the other.

    I think love in fiction is often portrayed though a sense of blindness and romanticism. Two people who just seem so different and impossible to think of as being together just eventually get into a relationship. Usually, they go through a series of incidents and coincidences that male each other realize each other’s importance. They sometimes disregard the characteristics they used to hate and goon to love each other. In real life, though there might not be so many the kinds of coincidences that happen in fiction, people’s blindness and desire to fall in love can make them fail to see if each other is the perfect half or not.