Some of us agreed our modern ideas of love align with Platonic ideas of it but some of us don’t agreed. According to Plato second big idea : Let your lover change you. We always say”Finding someone who love you just the way you are.” and we think that’s love. Plato says: “True love is admiration.” In other words, the person you need to get together with should have very good qualities which you yourself lack. Let’s say, they should be really brave or organised or warm and sincere. By getting close to this person , you can become a little like they are. The right person for us helps us grow to our full potential. For Plato, in a good relationship , a couple shouldn’t love each other exactly as they are right now. They should be committed to educating each other and to enduring the stormy passages this inevitably involves. Each person should want to seduce the other into becoming a better version of themselves. Plato’s conception of love influenced ours by we shouldn’t let love confuse us. We should understand what is love and be rational.
Kiet you bring up a wonderful point. I do agree, that finding someone who will help you grow, and help make a better version of you is important and essential, I dont believe our modern love aligns with the love plato discussed, at least not in total. I believe our love nowadays, is deeper, and we have found a deeper and more rooted meaning to love than it was back then. True love is admiration, but it is also support, guidance, Health, and neverending growth.