Kelsey Garegnani - cs lewis

In The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis talkes about humans have a tendency to "parise or disprise than to describe or define". I think this is true and that we feel a need to put things into catagories or levels of admiration or even necessity. Why dont we just learn about things and appreciate them for what they are instead of having to compare everything?  If we are constantly comparing pleasures for instance, we will never be satisfied by them because we will always think there is something better.  But if we choose to not compare one pleasure to another we will be focusing more on its good qualities and benefits and appreciate them more fully.  this could be one of our problems within nature.  Instead of appreciating it for how it is in each unique place or thing, we tend to compare them.  This leaves us continually dissatisfied with our experience and looking for another escape.  When, if we stop comparing and appreciate our experience, we can appreciate the qualities which make it pleasurable and notice more detail and wonder we might otherwise have missed.  Nature is a whole in which parts within it should not be compared to each other otherwise they will lose the value of their individuality in the attempts to seek bad qualities as well as good in order to compare.