Even the ancient Greeks understood that love can be manifested in different forms depending on how it is invoked and how intense it is. However the layers of love can be attempted to be generalized into different categories based on how they came to manifest. Beauty/Appearance - Most individuals are capable of having a crush with either something or someone. Whenever it's with people it's usually due to their features and when it's with an object it's usually due to its aesth

The idea that everything is intrinsically meaningless or crafted without value does not mean there is no beauty in its absurdity, nor does it imply that there can be no meaning forged in the experiencing of it.  Rationality to the point of enervation leads to the logic of suicide. If everything is said to be truly meaningless then what happens to our will to live? What becomes of our art, our faith and our reasoning behind the suffering in existence? When one is consumed by t

It is not hypocritical to argue that the common man feels more fulfilled when not founding all their actions in  rational  apotheosis while simultaneously not being guided through prejudice . Naturally, human decisions are guided through their intuition which allows them to recognize situations that seem uncanny. When following through with their instinct without prolonged consideration it can lead to a splintering of alignment with the soul, breeding anxiousness. To the egoi

Common Solace Coping With The Inevitable Nearly every individual faces the thought of death if they live long enough to conceptualize it. Despite the rationality of suicide during these times, many are not emotionally strong enough to go through with it nor do they subject themselves to continue living in Saturns murky rings. However, if they wish to continue living they must search for a way to cope. The following methods are the most common methods one relies on when faced

Abstract Rural Texas high school students continue to face a general lack of funding, which consistently correlates with the steady diminishing of mental health resource accessibility (Texas Association of School Boards). This study examines the quality, efficacy, and accessibility of these mental health resources using the experiences of 300 high school students through surveys and individual emails in order to better understand the faults within the district system and bett

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Marxists believe that the time and work it takes to make a good is what gives it worth. In late capitalism, on the other hand, value is often not based on work but on ideas, how people see things, and how they can be manipulated. This "fabricated value" is the fake sense of worth that capitalism creates to keep people buying things, making money, and keeping levels of inequality high. That's not what it's based on—desire, branding, and guesswork.   Karl Marx called this "comm

Digital activism: social movements in the era of the internet. The internet has made it easier for many social movements to plan and share their ideas with others. Activists use hashtags, social media, and internet campaigns to get more people to see their work rapidly. #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo are two examples of hashtags that have allowed people all around the world share their own stories and join together to fight for racial justice and stop violence against women. Pe

Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a psychologist, came up with the word "flow" to describe being really into something. People reach this level of skill when their level of skill matches the level of difficulty of the work. You forget how much time has passed when you're in the flow. It may seem like seconds pass in minutes. Most things that put you in flow have clear goals and give you feedback right away, which makes the experience enjoyable on its own.   Balance between challen

Social Identity Theory elucidates the manner in which individuals characterize themselves by their affiliations with social groupings, such as family, nation, or team. Tajfel and Turner first suggested this idea in the 1970s. It says that people get some of their self-esteem and self-concept from being a part of a community. When individuals have a strong identification with an in-group, they often exhibit preferential treatment towards it, resulting in in-group favoritism an

Lev Vygotsky's social learning theory presents the notion of the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD). It demonstrates the best way for a student to learn, which is the gap between what they can do on their own and what they can do with help. The ZPD is a list of things a student can't do on their own but can do with help from someone who knows more (MKO), such a teacher or a friend. Vygotsky said that here is where real learning happens because people can communicate to one

William James (1884) and Carl Lange (1885) came up with the James–Lange Theory of Emotion, which says that emotions come from the way our bodies react to things around us. This view says that something outside of us causes physical responses (like shaking, a fast heart rate, or changes in facial expressions) that our brain then recognizes as different feelings. If you see a snake, for example, your body starts to shake and sweat. You don't call that "fear" until you see how e

Clark Hull proposed Drive Reduction Theory in the middle of the twentieth century. It claims that physiological demands induce drives (tension states) that cause people to act in ways that lessen those urges. Hunger, for example, promotes a desire to eat. When the demand is fulfilled and homeostasis is restored, the urge subsides. Hull claimed that reducing a desire (like as eating while hungry) motivates the activity that enabled the reduction. In essence, organisms seek for

Terror Management Theory (TMT) looks on the impact of death awareness on human behavior. Greenberg, Solomon, and Pyszczynski (1986) created Terror Management Theory (TMT), which was informed by Ernest Becker's research. TMT claims that humans are conscious of their death, which distinguishes them from other creatures. This realization causes existential sorrow or "terror." To deal with this anxiety, people grasp onto cultural viewpoints and personal beliefs that give life mea

Learned Helplessness is when someone feels like they have no control over their position after a string of bad things that happened out of their control. Martin Seligman's key research in the 1970s established that dogs put to inescapable shocks showed no desire to flee, even when escape was possible. In the same way, people who keep failing or getting angry without things getting better may give up trying. People may give up looking for answers at this point and become hopel

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a hypothesis on what drives individuals to do things. It claims that people's wants are arranged from most basic to most complicated. Abraham Maslow first talked about this topic in a paper in 1943 and then wrote more about it in a book in 1954. The notion posits that individuals must fulfill their fundamental needs prior to being motivated to pursue their higher demands. People commonly portray the sequence as a pyramid with five levels. First,

Albert Bandura came up with the idea of social learning, which explains how people learn new behaviors by watching how others do them. Bandura showed that a lot of what we learn happens in social settings, which is different from the strict behaviorist view that says all learning comes from direct experience. This idea says that people, especially kids, do what they see other people do, especially if that behavior gets them something good or nothing bad. During the 1960s, Ban

According to attachment theory, the relationships a child has with their parents affect how they grow socially and emotionally. The idea was first thought of by British scientist John Bowlby in the middle of the 20th century. Mary Ainsworth later built on it. The thought is that babies need to form bonds with others in order to stay living. A caring and trustworthy adult provides a solid base for the child, offering comfort and safety as they learn to manage the world. Infant

Classical conditioning is a fundamental learning theory that elucidates the association between stimuli and responses in living organisms. Ivan Pavlov was the first person to look into this way of learning in the early 1900s. It happens when a neutral stimulus is repeatedly paired with an unconditioned stimulus that makes the person react in a certain way. Over time, the neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus, which means it can now cause a conditioned response

The Idea of Freedom to Pick    Self-Determination Theory (SDT) was created by scientists Edward Deci and Richard Ryan as a general way to understand what makes people act and behave the way they do. It began in the 1980s and has been grown ever since. In SDT, there is a difference between intrinsic and extrinsic drive. Extrinsic motivation is doing something because you need to, like getting a prize or keeping out of trouble. Intrinsic motivation is doing something because yo