「不成熟的愛是因為我需要你,所以我愛你;
而成熟的愛是因為我愛你,所以我需要你。
Immature love says: I love you because I need you.
Mature love says: I need you because I love you.」
~哲學家佛洛姆 Erich Fromm~
The philosopher Erich Fromm, he forecast a society that was obsessed with possessions. He believed the human beings had two basic orientations: “having” and “being”. Now, a person with a “having” orientation seeks to acquire and possess things, property, even people. But a person with a “being” orientation focuses on experience. They derive meaning from exchanging, engaging and sharing with other people.
Unfortunately, Fromm also predicted that a culture driven by commercialism, like the one we live in today, is doomed to “having” orrientation. Which lead to dissatisfaction and emptiness.