Fri 4 Apr 2008
Do you belive in love at first sight?!!!
I was a 16 year old boy. My mother`s aunt had a daughter, she was a year younger than me, and they lived in Bijar, (a small city in Kordestan Province, 140 kilometers away of Zanjan), anh whenever we went there, we, she and I played with each other, made a lot of fun and most the time were happy. We liked each other! And I always went there just for her… to see her and make fun… it passed… but I still liked her… until she had a candidate for marriage! I could not tell any thing to my parents… still waited and watched… and she got married… I went her wedding… but I never forget the night I cried to the dawn! Was I in love with her?!!!! It passed… I ahven`t seen her till this Sizdebedar Holiday, when we went Bijar… she and her husband were there, too. Her little son, now 7 years old, was playing and was so naughty! They were so happy… thanks God… how they both changed!!! When I remember those days now… I smile and a good feeling emerges my soal!
What was that feeling? Was I fell in love with her? Or have you happened to like some body so much within a very short time of meeting? Even at the first sight? How many times has it happened to you? To be frank please…
We call this kind of love… PUPPY LOVE! It is not the true love… rather the initiation of a true one! The true love is occuring during the relationship… within a mutual connection and communication, based on exact knowledge and understandings of the other party and under trsut and responsibility, with the mutual respects of each others rights and personality! What do you think? What is true love and what is the puppy love? I have selected some texts of my own book “THE TRUE QUEST IN LEARNING ENGLISH READING FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS” (you can download it form: http://www.4shared.com/file/39494306/b82b6c19/A_true_quest.html) that its title is “love at first sight, do you believe or not”, it is useful to know americans` ideas, too, beside ours. Please give me your nice comments and may be I use them in my future book under your own names.
"Love at first sight__
I can't explain it,
but it's real and
happens all the time."
__Taylor Stanley,
American actress (1976- )
Reading Passage
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
1 It was love at first sight. It's always exciting to hear those
words. But do people really believe in love at first sight? We asked 40 Americans this question_18 men and 22 women. Thirteen people (32%) said they believed in love at first sight; 27 people (68%) said
5 they did not.
Next, we wanted to find out who believed in love at first sight and who did not. We were surprised to find that both younger and older people believed they could fall in love in a few short seconds. We also learned that people from many different
10 professions had love-at-first- sight experiences. These people included a scientist, an artist, a dancer, and a computer programmer.
What was the most interesting thing we learned in our study? More men believe in love at first sight than women: 44 % of the men believed in this kind of love, while only 27% of the women
15 did. Here is what some of the men and women in our survey said about love at first sight.
Name: John
Occupation: Artist
Age: 30
20 "Yes, I believe in love at first sight. It happened to me. I was at a party several years ago when I saw Luisa. I knew she was the one for me when her eyes flashed back at me. It was like they looked into my heart, read my life story, and said, "I like what I see, and want to be with you." That night at the party, I went over to Luisa
25 and asked her to dance. She said, "of course, I was waiting for you to ask." That was three years ago, and we are still together."
her eyes flashed back at me : she looked at my eyes with a lot of emotion
Name: Mark
Occupation: Salesman
Age: 35
30 "I did not use to believe in love at first sight, but now I do. About four years ago, I was giving a sales presentation when this amazing woman walked into the room. We made eye contact and my heart started beating faster. After my presentation, I introduced myself, and she and I went out for dinner next night. We talked and talked,
35 and by the end of the evening, I was truly in love with her. That feeling of love at first sight was like nothing else. In just a few seconds, I was filled with intense energy and passion. Anne and I got married a year later.
Name: Emily
40 Occupation: College student
Age: 23
"No, I don't believe in love at first sight. Love comes later in a relationship. When I met my boyfriend, I felt something tingly. I guess you could call it puppy love, but it wasn't true love. It took
45 about a year for true love to develop between us."
amazing: fantastic
made eye contact : looked into each other's eyes
heart started beating faster : heart began to move very quickly
intense : very strong
felt something tingly : had feelings of excitement
puppy love : early feeling of love that are not serious
Name: Carol
Occupation: Writer
Age: 37
"Do I believe in love at first sight? No, not really. Love is based on
50 trust and shared experiences and values. Love takes time to develop. You fall in love slowly by talking to a special person, writing him love letters, fighting, making up. The key to love is staying excited about the other person, month after month, year after year."
Name: Sarah
55 Occupation: High school senior
Age: 18
"I don't think love at first sight happens very often, but of course it happens sometimes. It makes me happy to think that it might happen to me. If I didn't believe love at first sight was possible, it would be really depressing."
shared experiences and values: things that two people do together and ideas they agree on
making up: apologizing to each other after an agreement
