People are left with only memories, but there is a new pleasure, such as repetition, that Soren K. suggests to people. He says this pleasure comes from giving in to commitment and living a simple life. This is what humans actually want, but are too afraid of. Instead of looking for new and exciting love, Soren K. says it's better to wake up next to someone every morning knowing they'll always be there. This is the same advice the narrator gives to the struggling young poet in the book Repetition, but the young poet never understands. To continue, human beings who believe in soul mates and seek the perfect and unattainable love proposed by society will never be happy. The love that people are programmed to endlessly seek is an ideology, a false and cruel illusion. This is the kind of love idolized in movies; this is what they present as their reason for living. A great example of this is love in The Great Gatsby. The poor guy does everything to have the woman of his dreams in his arms, but even after all his trials, he never succeeds. She was never his to begin with, but he wouldn't let her go. Another