Journal: Rambling
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Here is the ramblings of (me) a woman with too much time on her hands, a heart filled with emotions, and... a dictionary.
LOVE
What is love really?
Let's look in the dictionary, shall we?
1. Deep affection and warm feeling for another. 2. The emotion of sex and romance; strong sexual desire for another. 3. A beloved person. 4. A strong fondness or enthusiasm.
Our "technical" definition for the word is almost confusing. I was always told that "Love" is a strong, caring emotion shared between two (some times only one sided) people. But I've also been told that it is a rare thing. Looking at the definitions for "Love" it seems so strange. By their terms, then, you could love just about anything. Also, that anyone with a sexual desire for a man/woman is in "Love". In turn does it mean if I see a man on the street a few feet away and I have sexual desires for him that I am in fact in "Love" with him? With that in mind the word seems almost minuscule, having nothing of it's rare specialty anymore.
I say I "Love" my cat, but I do not have anything close to a "strong sexual desire" for him. I "Love" my little sister, but I have no "romance" nor "sexual" desire towards the nine year old girl. Deep affection, yes. Warm feeling, maybe pushing it. Beloved person, yes. Strong fondness, not always. It is that second term in our Dictionary that confuses me deeply.
Even the others arouse questions in my mind.
Deep Affection.
A stalker can have a deep affection for the person they are following, but that does not mean that they love them, merely that they are fascinated with them. (Though in some cases it is a sort of sick, twisted love that drives them. I return to the latter. ) I have warm feelings towards my computer. It brings me several comforts, in fact, but I do not "Love" it. Is it in the human psyche to believe that a deep emotion towards one thing or person means "Love"? What happened to the bond that people in "Love" say they have?
That awkward, yet just right feeling in the pits of their stomachs and the middle of their chests that they feel for nothing and no one else but the person that they "Love"? The word has nothing anymore. It can be explained as anything, mere strong emotions and fondness. Can anyone really give the full definition for "Love"? And is it justifiably put in the dictionaries of today? Maybe we should leave the word "Love" several empty pages, for people to put in their own definition.
Now, thinking about it, does the definition really matter? If you know in your heart what it is to you, does it matter? But then there is the age old question that lonely hermits have been asking themselves ever since the beautiful woman with long legs/that gorgeous man with blue eyes left them stranded with lonely heart and nothing but questions; Is "Love" real? By definition it is. Again, though, if you believe in something hard enough does it make it real? Almost everyone will tell you they know what "Love" is, but do they really. They only know that they love some one for the simple reason that from the day they were born they were given the world wide definition of what it is to love.
Every person in this world is impacted differently by the emotion, though. A woman "Loves" a man even though he continuously beats her. A man "Loves" a woman even though he knows she goes out and cheats on him every night. A woman "Loves" a man who is perfect even though she doesn't know he's killed seven people. A man "Loves" a woman who he's only met three times before, but know she's the right one for him. It's ridiculous. Every single humanoid on the ego infested, scientifically explained world experiences the word a complete and extremely different way than any other heart throbbing son of a bitch.
So, who the fuck are we to give it indefinite meaning?
...Created 2008-06-20 03:48:58 [ View Past Journals ] [ View as Blog ] |
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