Recognising Love... (First Blog)
Wednesday, 18 November 2009 03:44
‘The greatest thing you will ever learn, is just to love, and be loved in return.’
I have pondered this quote many times. Love. There are so many different kinds of love; love for your mother, love for you partner, love for your friends, love for places, love for your favourite sports team.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines love as:
• noun 1 an intense feeling of deep affection. 2 a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone. 3 a great interest and pleasure in something. 4 a person or thing that one loves. 5 (in tennis, squash, etc.) a score of zero. apparently from the phrase play for love (i.e. the love of the game, not for money).
• verb 1 feel love for. 2 like very much. 3 loving showing love or great care.
Yet, I find myself asking; how can one truly define love? I am in awe of how we have created absolute definitions for a word which takes on so many meanings; a feeling, from which, all other emotions are essentially derived.
When someone is so deeply absorbed romantically in the emotion we label ‘love’, defining it as ‘an intense feeling of deep affection’ seems almost futile. And why do we limit the dominant meaning of the word to that of a romantic and sexual nature?
‘It's so easy, to think about Love, to talk about Love, to wish for Love, but it's not always easy, to recognise Love, Even when we hold it in our hands.’ I don’t think anyone can say that they have never neglected someone close to their heart. Whether it’s family, a friend, a lover; why do we not hold this bond - the love for another human - in the highest regard? Often, when a relationship has dissolved due to arguments, growing apart or even death, we are filled with the regret that we didn’t treasure the time we had whilst it was there. Why do so many of us not realise the love we share until it’s gone?
Jaka
Love distils desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart."
‘A deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone’ is the easiest form of love to recognise in my opinion; mainly because it grips the heart and the mind and consumes all logic and reasoning. However, this love is fuelled by desire, passion, lust.
It seems to me that we can although we can easily realise and appreciate this love, anything outside of this, anything platonic seems to go unnoticed, unattended, unvalued by comparison.
Learn to recognise the love around you, and not love of the romantic or sexual nature. Call your family, go for a drink with a friend, hug a stranger. Just ensure that you do not come to regret missing out on one of the most important lessons in life; don’t lose out on something that is everywhere around you, just because of the more prominent semantics.
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