Werebeast is a strange cartoon, but it does show the importance of not depending on such fickle things as love potions. Well, maybe it should really say that you shouldn’t depend on the first potion you happen to see and actually ask if the potion you want is the one that you happened to notice first. There’s a big difference between spritzing on a ‘love potion’ that can drive women wild and a potion that can unlock very essence of evil that can consume your soul and control the minds of others. But then again, some might call those potions two versions of the same thing.
Besides, haven’t you seen by now that love potions and spells in various movies are really nothing but a lot more trouble than they’re worth? Take Harry Potter for instance. Someone sent him a love potion, of a sort, and his friend Ron mistook it as being for him. The poor redhead was in love with someone he had never met and was so doe-eyed over the moon that couldn’t stop thinking about her despite the fact that she likely didn’t know he existed. Love potions might seem like a great thing but in essence they’re a mind-controlling substance in fantasy that take away all semblance of restraint and freedom of choice in favor of becoming truly besotted with someone that may or may not want you after the initial throes of passion are well and spent.
There are many other instances in movies where love potions and spells have turned out wrong as well. Remember the movie The Craft? Four young witches desire the power to change their lives, and one among them wants a boy she likes to fall madly in love with her. It works, and oh boy does he fall head over heels. Unfortunately he falls so hard that he just can’t leave her alone and spends every waking moment trying to be next to her, which is essentially creepy and worthy of stalker status to be honest. Love is great, and adoration is wonderful, but taken to extremes love is kind of like late night of binge-drinking. It starts out great and wonderful and offers a load of fun, but if you keep at it things will eventually get kind of ugly and you’ll find yourself wanting to gain as much distance as possible from your current situation.
Love is wonderful, it’s a powerful force that’s just as much give as it is take, but it’s one of those things in life that needs to be tempered by distance and the understanding of what it really takes to get someone to become invested in you as a person, not because of some sort of trick that you pull on them to make the person like you. It’s easy to say ‘be yourself’ and ‘if a person can’t like you for you then they’re not worth it’, especially for those that already have someone. But the advice is sound enough that you really shouldn’t need anything to get someone’s attention.
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