"Do you love him?" he demanded.
Startled, I shrugged and lowered my eyes.
"What is love????" I murmured. Very clever.... answering a question with a question.
I think I know. Or perhaps I really don't know. The feeling is easy experience, but hard to put into words. Love is... (no, it's not the fruits in Galations)... love is, transient. Delusional. It is affirmation and denial at the same time. It's all your life's hopes zeroed onto one person. The excitement of dreams coming true.
I thought I knew what love was. Was VERY sure of it, in fact. The brain was in sync with the heart. So sure I was willing to bet my whole future on it, fight for it because I BELIEVED. How wrong I was. Was that love? Was that love? If it wasn't love, what was it? It it was, how come I'm sitting here right now questioning the present?
So I've come to the conclusion. True love does not exist. It's all about perception. It's subjective. Love is... the feeling of goodness you have towards someone, until it fades away and turns into rejection. Tell me, is love suppose to taste sour after a while? If that is the norm.... why do we seek it so?
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Love like everything in this world can be abused if not handled rightly.
Our hormones cause us to be attracted to the opposite sex, that may not be love in its best form. Men are out more for sex than love. LOve is the disguise to bed a woman! (and still many women fall for the cheap trick.)
Love is being attracted to someone or something (pet) in such a way that we want to do something to make that person/thing feel really appreciated and we seek to improve its well-being. Love is not self-seeking but other-seeking.
It is commitment & loyalty in its best form; in spite of changing circumstances and fortunes. That's why in marriage 'it is for better or for worse, in riches or in poverty, in sickness or in health ..... till death do us part'.
Disloyalty, lack of commitment, sexual drives, greed, pride etc are everywhere and too bad if we should be run over by it; a poor judgement call. But that does not mean love is not real. Isn't your love for kutucat real? Love is real!
The yardstick of love is found in the Bible, see below:
1 Corinthians 13 (NIV)
Love
1. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,but have not love, I gain nothing.
4.Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8. Love never fails........
What do you think?
It's just me then.
You are definitely not alone!
Just this morning an sms told me that a couple married for about 10 years with two sweet young children are divorcing.
Why? Cos the husband has run into bad times, not much money left, can't provide landed property anymore etc. Mainly the wife's materialistic considerations... what she wants, her well-being.
As in the poem Desiderata, "...Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness......"
http://marilee.us/desiderata.html
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