The Symptom of Love

When couples are in love, they trail each other footstep. They tend to follow their partners’ interests, behaviors, and thoughts. They take on their partners’ hobbies and habits. The reason is they don’t want to lose their partners. They do that out of love, but at the same time, losing their own identities.

In the movie Bug, a divorced woman, who was the victim of physical abuse, went through a psychological transformation when she met a delusional paranoia schizophrenic patient, Peter. When Peter had a delusion of having bugs implanted to his body, she wanted him bad enough that she felt deeply into his story, and believed the bugs actually existed. She had stretched her imagination far enough to convince him the bugs were transferred to her body when they made sexual contact. She fulfilled her loneliness by picking up the “bug” from her man. Her desire of him to stay darkens her ability to see things clearly. Her perception was manipulated by her need of companionship.

The “Bug” was a metaphor of real life’s symptom of love – A love bug. When we want someone bad enough, we start to melt into the people that we love, and sometimes, we forgot who we really are. Love can influence, or vary our perceptions and views. Losing someone that we love or losing our own identities, during our lifetime, we have to make a choice…