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WRITING OBSTACLE
An alien and a human discuss the concept of love.
Think about what love might mean to another species, and how they would discuss it or think about it differently from humans.
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The bar. My favorite place to relax after a long day. My particularly favorite spot is a lengthy table along an equally lengthy window, giving me a wonderful view of the city down below. Today one of my more aquaited colleagues joins me as we wind down for the day. We were enjoying the regular sounds day three of seven had normally brought about. That was until the sound of my felian friends voice...
“It’s when you care about somebody deeply
It’s a very complex emotion but is a deep emotion towards someone. Like a mother to her child or somebody to their spouse”. Says Abby
“Ohhhh is see, on our planet we don’t refer to it as love” says alien
“We actually don’t have a name for it
But we all feel that we are this, love
And it isn’t an emotion
It’s who we are as beings
Which is why I bel...
"It's caring. It's being able to do everthing for them. It's wanting to do everything for them. It's affection, it's wanting to spent the rest of your days and more with them! It's truly and deeply caring. It's being there for them no matter what. Listening, to guide, it means being able to give up on your career, giving up on your life, your family. True love is supposed to be everything for you....
“Love is hard.”
“It’s hard?”
“Yes it’s hard.”
“I don’t think so at all, I think it’s very simple actually.”
“Must be a cultural difference then.”
“Maybe it’s just a personal one.”
“Why do you say that?”
“I think love could be easy for you if you let it be.”
“I doubt it. I really really doubt it.”
“Well what makes it so hard then?”
“It requires so much work, and there is no guarantee it...
Human says to alien love is yes meeting up chatting up £motional showing that you’re tough masculine that your jeans or genes are worthy to pass to the next generation with compliments getting emotional arousing her you know and beating the competition to death by you know getting abs going to gym eating healthy food drinking lots of water
Alien said oh this thing called love is so competitive so...
“What is love?” the small alien asked, avoiding the sun as Heather was washing the dishes. Heather just smiled and replied, “something you feel, not eat” she said, wiping the plate dry with her towel. Then she paused and thought for a second as Kelly’s looked up, blinking her eyes. “Think of a tree” she said.
Kelly replied, “Why? Will they eat me?” Kelly asked, and Heather then grin...
Everyone thinks I’m crazy because I have an imaginary friend. They think I’m even crazier because his name is Ed and he’s an alien. And to talk matters off, my boyfriend walked out and left me today. You know what I say? To hell with them. To hell with them all. They are the crazy ones because they can’t see him. I don’t know what’s wrong with their eyeballs, but he’s real in the flesh. Or… whatev...
Tin stands in front of the door to his apartment. The apartment is tiny and dingy, like all of the apparemts in the future.
Beside his door hangs a gas mask. He picks up the gas mask, switches on the ocular screen, and afixed the mask firmly on his face. Tin opens the door and steps out into the pale light of the city.
As Tin walks down the street, ads begin to play in the ocular screen of the g...
A’kao always had questions even from when he first landed on Earth. He was sent to study the behaviors of humans and ended up with a sort of outcast human it seemed. His name was Theo and he heard differently than most humans and he was harrier. He didn’t mind but it made Theo all the more interesting. It was fun staying with him and it helped him understand so many things about humans. It especia...
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