Mandy Len Catron 2: A better way to talk about love

                             

TED 2017

Mandy Len Catron 2: A better way to talk about love (transcript)

Summary

The speaker tells us that we need to change our culture or our expectations about love, firstly. It's because, in our culture, it’s thought that it values lifelong monogamy and we want love to feel madness but we want it to last an entire lifetime.

We assume that love is with great pain and suffering, we are victims of love, love is madness and we longed to have dramatic love. We are in a passive while falling love and we think that our happiness is how we are loved, and your sadness how much we love.

However, the speaker suggests you don't think that love is to control you or that you consent to love but you think that you can create love with your lover more. Although this is the difficult thing, love has been like the collaborative work of art. You can decide your love yourself and you don't talk about your love that you are gaining or losing in your relationship but you can talk about what you have to offer. This is the better way to talk about the love she thinks.

However, I want to add that people must already do something for their love. Just they’ve talked about their love that is sadness and dramatic when they talk about. They can't change the way to talk about only love but without love, they use the same way to talk about love.

Words in this story

smite smote smitten / strike with a firm blow.

monogamy / the practice or state of being married to one person at a time.

prophecy / a prediction. forecast, prediction, expectation, anticipation