Abstract The Art Of Loving

Reading this little book seemed quite interesting to me, since honestly I had never thought of love as an art, although I have never believed that This is an easy feeling, since as we all know, thanks to the experience we have, it is not simply loving, but it carries with it a series of extremely complex elements to which it is impossible to give an exact meaning, in addition to the fact that there are a great infinity of modalities that are applied to situations specific.
It is very true that when a person does not love himself it is impossible for him to truly love others, because Generally, when you are in this situation, all you do is use your neighbor in one way or another to satisfy your needs. own needs.
As the author tells us in this work, the society in which we currently live has certain characteristics that do not allow most people to develop satisfactorily "the art of loving", because we are invaded by technology and ambition that the only thing that causes is that we want to do things as quickly as possible, to thus obtain the maximum utility, without stopping to think about what is really important to us, although rather in my point of view it is not that we cannot but rather that we cannot we want because this for the majority is the most comfortable, because many times it is not easy to face our own feelings, because the possibility is latent that we do not like what we we really are.

This reading made me reflect on how important it is to know yourself and learn to accept and love yourself as you are, because that is the only way to achieve love and with it true happiness, because love is the engine that moves the world and without it there is nothing more than simple robots that have very well studied their routines and their courses of action, in which there is no room for the slightest mistake and much less time to go inside and marvel at everything that happens there, because each of us we are a world that thinks and feels totally different and personally I would love to get to know myself truly so that I can love myself and others fully.
From today I plan to put into practice what I have learned in this book and thus fight for a more life satisfactory and not simply be a machine that already has well defined what to do, what to feel, what to think, etc.

Fromm Erich, The Art of Loving, Spain, Ed. Paidos Studio, 1981, 128 p.p.