Is Online Dating Killing Love?

A fair maiden is guarded by a dragon. A handsome prince must slay the dragon to save her. Then, magically, they fall in love and live happily ever after. Traditional stories tend to emphasize the fantastic, magical side of love.Fate plays matchmaker.Strangers see each other from across a room and instantly know that they are destined to be together.

It isn't difficult to imagine two strangers coming together and falling in love despite their differences. It suggests that love is challenging, uncertain, and incomprehensible.

But with more people using online dating services, a very different kind of love has emerged: one that is scientific, convenient, and self-directed. It minimizes risk and provides a choice, like on a menu. There is anonymity and the avoidance of immediate rejection.Meeting terms are negotiated online.

Online dating also allows the setting of preconditions. Computer algorithms exclude undesirable traits such as the wrong hair color, race, or age. But they also exclude randomness. They reduce the chances of meeting someone different, or someone who could challenge one's romantic ideals. Instead, they find the partner we think we want and exclude everyone else. As a result, we could be missing the opportunity of a lifetime, to meet someone we would never have expected to fall in love with.

Perhaps this new way represents a more efficient form of romance. Traditional ideas of love may be enchanting - but are they useful? Loneliness and boredom are less exciting than chance encounters,but they represent the more realistic side of love. All to often people have suffered through bad dates and humiliations. If they could just choose what they wanted,wouldn't it save time and reduce suffering? However, by choosing partners based on our preconceived ideas,we may be indulging in our illusions. Instead of letting ourselves grow with someone, love becomes more about looking for ourselves in the other.What if we don't know ourselves as well as we think? Perhaps love isn't about knowing what we want.Perhaps it's about being open to unimagined possibilities.

The author of this article is somewhat of a romantic.

How well does the author think people know themselves? He isn't sure.

The author thinks that online dating may have some hidden dangers.

What are problems associated with doing thing that traditional way?  In many cases, it leaves people bored and lonely.

If something destined to happen, it is part of a universal plan beyond our control.

To be enchanting means to have a mysterious, charming quality.

To be anonymous means to be unidentified.

An idea or opinion is preconceived if it is arrived at in advance and without evidence to support it.

The author isn’t sure that people know themselves as well as they think they do.

Online dating also allows the setting of preconditions.

Tradition ideas of love may be enchanting- but are they useful?

How do traditional stories characterized love? Traditional stories tend to emphasize the fantastic, magical side of love.

What opportunity are we missing when we use online dating?As a result, we could be missing the opportunity of a lifetime, to meet someone we would never have expected to fall in love with.

Loneliness and boredom represent the realistic side of traditional love.

Sports Injuries

Sports injuries are injuries that happen to athletes participating in sporting events. In many cases, these types of injuries are due to overuse of a part of the body.For example,runner's knee is a painful condition associated with running, while tennis elbow is a form of repetitive stress injury at the elbow. Other types of injuries, such as a broken bone, can be caused by hard contact with something.

Injuries are a common occurrence in professional sports, and most teams have a staff of trainers and close connections to the medical community. Controversy has arisen at times when teams have made decisions that could threaten a player's long-term health for short-term gain.

Sports injuries can be classified as either traumatic or overuse injuries.Traumatic injuries account for most injuries in contact sports such as soccer, rugby and American football. This is of course due to the dynamic and high collision nature of these games. These injuries range from bruises and muscle strains to fractures and head injuries.

A bruise is damage to small blood vessels which causes bleeding within the tissues. A muscle strain is a small of muscle fibers and a ligament sprain is a small tear of ligament tissue. The body's response to these injuries is the same in the initial five-day period immediately following the incident-inflammation.Inflammation is characterized by pain, localized swelling, heat, redness and a loss of function. Inflammation is the first phase of healing, and typically lasts for around five days.However, too much of an inflammatory response can mean that the healing process will take longer, and a return to activity is delayed. Sports injury treatments are intended to minimize the inflammatory phase of an injury so that the overall healing process is accelerated.

This article gives an overview of different types of sports injuries.

Associated with means about the same as connected to.

The tone of this article is logical and informative.

What is the first stage of healing? inflammation

To account for means to be responsible for

Collision means about the same thing as crash

What's an example of traumatic injury ? These injuries range from bruises and muscle strains to fractures and head injuries.

What is the first phase of healing of a traumatic injury ?Inflammation is the first phase of healing, and typically lasts for around five days.

In many cases, sports injuries are due to overuse of a part of the body.