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Wed 23 Feb, 2011 08:57 pm
The author argues that we should set a bottom line in a relationship, which means the behaviors we cannot tolerate.
Then comes the following sentences, "Honoring our bottom line tests our spiritual resolve. It's incredibly easy to forget when our hormones or longing get involved but that's why we have brains and, I would add, feet."
Why does the auther add "feet" here? Does "feet" have something to do with hormones, longing, or "bottom"?
@Justin Xu,
The feet are used for walking away from the relationship.
@laughoutlood,
Thank you laughoutlood.
I understand the meaning of "feet" now. But I suddenly find that "brain" is also a problem. Why "brain" then? "That's why we have brains"? What's the logic here?
@Justin Xu,
May come from the saying " feet on the ground". Namely, you're a rational, sincere, not too emotional human being, who moreover has a brain with which to think.
@Justin Xu,
Hormones and longing would be considered heart or body. Logical thinking would be "brain."
The author is saying that while you may be physically longing for someone, that shouldn't get in the way of thinking rationally about whether the relationship is good for you. And if once you use your brain to think about that and realize that the relationship is not good, well, you have feet to carry you away from the relationship.
@sozobe,
Thank you very much sozobe. I think you are right.
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