"The brain may be easy to buy, but the heart is never marketed."
By Valadas
@Valadas (83)
Portugal
May 2, 2011 1:15pm CST
So I found this phrase online while searching for a topic to make a discussion.
I chose this phrase because I think it's a very truthful phrase. I'm not sure of it's meaning but i'll try to do best to explain it. Then you guys tell me if I'm wrong and give your opinion on it too :)
So what I think that this phrase means is basically this: it's easy and possible to make someone like you by "brain washing" them. By buying stuff for them and doing them favors, basically, you "compel" them to like you. But it's impossible to gain someones love by making this kind of stuff. The heart can't be bought. It can, if you have a really bad heart. But someone with true feelings can't be compeled this way. You don't choose who you love. It has got to be a natural thing. You shouldn't like someone just because your "desperate" to be with someone. That's called forced love.
You see that girl passing by and your heart starts beating faster and faster, you get nervous and your legs start shaking and you don't know why this is happening but then you realize that that girl is making you act like that. That's just an example on how love should really be, a natural thing. You can't buy someones heart.
Now about that maybe a phrase will help: "A person's heart can't be bought, it can, but only by another heart." Kudos to me, I just invented that xD I don't know if it makes sense... maybe.
Now tell me if what I just told is right or wrong. Give me your opinions about it too if you so desire it.
All of your commentarys are aprecciated as long as they stick to the topic and aren't flaming/spamming. Very much aprecciated.
3 responses
@likeastar (5)
• Portugal
2 May 11
Sometimes, we see people who are interested in someone, and they know that that person doesn't like them, but still they keeping and trying, even knowing that if something happens, it can be (maybe) outer interest only, or something like that.
How can a person be dating another person knowing that person doesn't like her, and just makes what you want or even lies to you to make you "happy"?! Or even that certain person can use you and as time passes it will hurt, as _sketch_ said. This to me is the definition of "Buy a brain".
An heart can never be negotiated. As you said, it's a natural thing that happens naturally, and that can end at anytime without you controlling it. We learn how to take care of the feelings, like a flower, watering and taking care of it, and then ir grows and grows to be beautiful, but of we do not take care of it, then it'll die.
So, bottom line is, buying the brain of someone can be easy, but buying the heart from someone it's impossible.
@Valadas (83)
• Portugal
2 May 11
In the first two paragraphs I have not much to say really because it as already been talked. Glad to hear that you agree with it.
About the third paragraph.. you're totally right, we do learn how to take care of our feelings, they are the ones who take care of us but we have to "tame" them in a certain way. If we don't learn how to control them we eventually end up being... I don't know really... we end up being sad I guess. It was a nice example the flowers, nice comparison.
Nice comment but you need to improve your english a little bit xD
@_sketch_ (5742)
• United States
2 May 11
This quote is by James Russell Lowel and I think you got it. When I hear it, I think of heartbreak. Someone can use us and hurt us, but we shouldn't identify with this experience. It doesn't mean that we are stupid or easy or whatever we may be feeling.
If they didn't love us, then they were lying to us, faking and so we never really knew them. If we never really knew them, then we couldn't have possibly loved them. Therefore, they never really had our heart, only our mind, and so they never really had us. We lost nothing. Heartbreak is an illusion.
@Valadas (83)
• Portugal
2 May 11
You're totally right. And you explained it better than me to be honest. If people lie to us they are in a kinda way "buying" our brain without caring about our heart. They only want to "demand" us to be their friends but in reality they aren't feeling anything for us. Everybody as this type of "friends" I guess. They aren't really friends. They are like the people from your class in school. At least in my case I know that my class is like this. They are very friendly when they are near me, but when they are with their friends they change completely and treat me totally differently. That's an obvious example of fake friends.
I really liked your commentary, by the way :)
@gelayagui98 (1336)
• Australia
3 May 11
The heart is the source of all emotions to the whole body while the brain is only the mental coordinated activity of the heart.
