Love(Revisited), May 11, 2009
Today is a strange day for me. It marks a special day and life changing moment in my life. so i thought it would be best to revisit the post that i think suits this day the best. Enjoy
Google the word love. You won’t find it. Sure a few sites are saying that they have the definition of what love is. “Here take this quick quiz to see if you really are in love!” Your search will also give quotes from history’s great minds explaining what they think love is. Yes I, an absolute nobody of importance, will say that they are all wrong! That’s right, Sophocles, Mark Twain, Aristotle, Homer, all morons! Get your pens and paper ready because I am going to give you the meaning of love. Here we go…. It’s….. Uh…. Hang on I can do this….. Love is….. Well I guess now I can put my self in the same class as the great minds mentioned above, because I have no clue!
And the fact is that no one knows what love is. It just is. To think us humans know more about a distant star in the Ursa Major constellation than we do about our own emotions. But there I go, labeling love. Is it even an emotion? Or a state of mind? Ill admit being “in love” before. I have even “felt” loved. As I am sure many have and will continue to. You can’t really avoid what love is. In some way or form love consumes us all for better or worse. You find that some one that you always need to be around and can’t stand not thinking about them. Love is all you want to give someone, so is love a tangible thing that I can hand over to some one I love like a gift? It seems that all love really does is arise more questions than answers for the romantics in all of us.
Is love worth it? (See another question!) Is it worth the time and work that it takes to “find” and achieve it? For most cases I would say yes. But like I said earlier, love consumes for better AND for the worse. For you can’t really be “in love” with out knowing what life without love is like. And before all you single empowering ladies out there give me the Gloria Gaynor, I Will Survive rift, you still look for love even if you don’t want to admit it! The cosmic universe of opposites handles all our problems for us all. We have all heard that we can not know true happiness without first knowing true despair. You can’t have peace without war, life with out death. Mister Ying and Yang thank you very much. So love, well love have its consequences doesn’t it? Have you ever “been in love” and not cried? Crying equals sad right? Sad equals bad right? So why does love make us sad? Love causes all of us to feel the extremes that life has to offer; extreme happiness and extreme grief.
We have all heard the songs, read the poems and seen the movies. We know sometimes that the prince and princess live happily ever after. And God help me how many times have we all seen the movie where girl meets boy, boy lies to girl, girl gives the same line, “ you lied to me !How could you have lied to me?!” boy, apologizes, boy and girl live happily ever after again. And I dare you to search all songs that have love in the title. Write me back in a million years when you finish looking at them all. We all search for love; we all say that we want it, knowing what it brings. All knowing that love brings pain and heartbreak to all those that try and master it.
But love is still love. We know what it is. And that is good. Knowing that love can bring true pleasure and make us cry at the same time. It is that knowledge that makes us human and gives us the human sense of hope. Hope that true love, love of such great magnitude and strength is out there somewhere. That someone is out there waiting for that day the see you and say to themselves, “finally!” And think about how many times you have claimed to be in love. How that feeling of joy flooded your entire body when you found that one; that one person that gave you everything. That feeling that many have killed for, and have died for. That unequivocal sense of love that is the right to all of us living on this earth.
So finally here is love for me. Love is knowledge. The knowledge of security and comfort in someone else. Knowing that as long as they are here with me, I will be human. I will feel pain. I will feel joy. I will exist. And yes I will love.
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