“Take the pain out of love then love won’t exist,” written by ‘The Academy is…’ in their song called “Everything We Had”. This phrase is saying that because love is pain and if we take away the pain then there will be no love. It also is saying that we cannot have love without the pain that comes with it. Thinking this way this phrase must be a contradiction, because love is considered a good emotion and that if the pain were taken out there would only be good left. Due to this thinking, love still would be able to exist, making the phrase a contradiction.
The paradox in this phrase is simple, that love, in this case is like many other things, a coin. Coins are always two sided and without one side, you cannot have the other. If we follow this concept, the phrase is in no way a contradiction and is a paradox, for if we take the pain, or the back of the coin, out of love, we cannot have the other side, for what can exist without half it self. This phrase is mostly implying that love is a risk and there is always the chance that you will get hurt, which in many cases is a huge lesson for students in high school, not just love with a boy/girlfriend but also with their friends and family.
This paradox, to me, is an example of life, how nothing can be one sided when there is something to gain and lose. Knowing that there is always a risk in falling in love and then being able to still live with it is something very brave, though it would not be seen as such by some one who never thought of the risk. Because I am an open person and though I know it’s a risk I still continue to be that kind of person makes this phrase from one of my favorite bands really hit the mark.
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An English portfolio by Kristin Monteith.
Table of Links of Contents
Academic Put Together - This is the academic resume that was mainly written in class. It goes over the various qualifications I have for a job or anything else that would require a resume and was written before SOLs of 2009.
Quoting - This essay was one of the first written in class. Was mainly written in the computer labs at the end of September. The whole essay is based on Nelson Mandela's quote "The greatest glory in living lies not in ever failing, but rising up every time you fall".
The Light of Hope Turning On - The essay is of one of my favorite books, Anthem by Ayn Rand. It was mainly written on our own, so mostly typed up on my home computer. It was writen during the begining of the school year, '08-'09. We began writing as soon as everyone had finished Anthem and was to address the many diffrent hopes featured in Anthem.
Thoughts of a Wanderer - This is the personal essay written based around the ideas of three other works: Death is..., Paradox Love, and Good Night. The insperation from Death Is... was of the world after this one and how the afterlife might be what we make it out to be. From Paradox Love I was inspired by things being two sided. Finally, from Good Night the thought of going anywhere I could.
Death Is... - This was written as a short response on death while reading The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Even though it was a short response it was interesting to write my thoughts of death out and being able to see them as written words.
Paradox Love - This was originally a small home work assignment where we could pick from some parodoxies or find one on our own. I chose to write about my currently most played song by The Academy Is... called Everything We Had. I was also somewhat inspired by a series I was reading that had been talking how there always seemed to be the good and the bad.
Good Night - This was written in class after fifteen minutes or so. We were to write about a place we whished to go back to. English being my first block and me being sick I naturally wanted to despeately go back to my nice warm bed. Being specific about details, though somewhat torturing, was a good way to have everything form infront of me increasing my skills of describing in my own writing.
To Clear A Mountain - This was the post-test writing prompt, the prompt being to describe a goal. Thinking of nothing truely interesting to tell and recently be thriving to describe I descided to write of cleaning my desk, I task I have yet to complete. While being able to write over this a few times I found it good to be able to describe a chaotic mountain while adding some of my own sarcasam.
Blink - My reaction to the whole portfolio writng is easy to describe, one word has tooken care of it already. Of course written at the end of my journey I use this as a time to reflect, mainly because that was the asignment.
Quoting - This essay was one of the first written in class. Was mainly written in the computer labs at the end of September. The whole essay is based on Nelson Mandela's quote "The greatest glory in living lies not in ever failing, but rising up every time you fall".
The Light of Hope Turning On - The essay is of one of my favorite books, Anthem by Ayn Rand. It was mainly written on our own, so mostly typed up on my home computer. It was writen during the begining of the school year, '08-'09. We began writing as soon as everyone had finished Anthem and was to address the many diffrent hopes featured in Anthem.
Thoughts of a Wanderer - This is the personal essay written based around the ideas of three other works: Death is..., Paradox Love, and Good Night. The insperation from Death Is... was of the world after this one and how the afterlife might be what we make it out to be. From Paradox Love I was inspired by things being two sided. Finally, from Good Night the thought of going anywhere I could.
Death Is... - This was written as a short response on death while reading The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Even though it was a short response it was interesting to write my thoughts of death out and being able to see them as written words.
Paradox Love - This was originally a small home work assignment where we could pick from some parodoxies or find one on our own. I chose to write about my currently most played song by The Academy Is... called Everything We Had. I was also somewhat inspired by a series I was reading that had been talking how there always seemed to be the good and the bad.
Good Night - This was written in class after fifteen minutes or so. We were to write about a place we whished to go back to. English being my first block and me being sick I naturally wanted to despeately go back to my nice warm bed. Being specific about details, though somewhat torturing, was a good way to have everything form infront of me increasing my skills of describing in my own writing.
To Clear A Mountain - This was the post-test writing prompt, the prompt being to describe a goal. Thinking of nothing truely interesting to tell and recently be thriving to describe I descided to write of cleaning my desk, I task I have yet to complete. While being able to write over this a few times I found it good to be able to describe a chaotic mountain while adding some of my own sarcasam.
Blink - My reaction to the whole portfolio writng is easy to describe, one word has tooken care of it already. Of course written at the end of my journey I use this as a time to reflect, mainly because that was the asignment.
The Sounds of my Thoughts
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