“Romanticism” is the overwhelming desire for one single thing to be everything in itself. 

We experience it most commonly about erotic love, but it can also apply to philosophy, politics, business — anything really.  

The plus of being romantic is that it creates epic seekers. The minus is that you’re seeking for something that’s not in this world.

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But if people have claimed to have “had” that ideal. And there is some evidence (the poems/insights) How could it be “unworldly” ? Unless you mean its not oriented towards material reality?

It’s why I said what is being sought is “not in this world” ( all spirituality is unworldly). 

Plato is profound on the relation of the ideal to the real

Spiritually, the seeking of that ideal which is not in the world leads to that ideal being inside the person, and is the person. 

Would you say, in spirituality, is the only field where that ideal has been “had” - buddha, eckart, rumi, hadiz, rabbia, etc?

Yeah definitely. But that’s ok. The process contains learning.

Have you ever romanticized something like a relationship, career, or belief. only to realize later that you were chasing an ideal that doesn’t exist in reality?😔

This is one version of it I was thinking of! It’s not good or bad… it’s romantic.

Very true. I tend to romanticize crypto projects as well. Some call it bag holder, but I am forever in love with my "collectibles"!