Sunday, July 4, 2010

Love

It's not often I come across the person who can explain love. The word is ambiguous. As the band Massive Attack put it, in their song 'Teardrop', seems to describe it well within a short sentence. "Love, love is a word, love is a doing word. Fearless on my breath."
Fearless could be the best part of that sentence. Her words are fearlessly spoken or sung. Love is a verb. It is a doing word. Love is put well in a song called 'Aguas de marco'. If you look in the dictionary, or Wikipedia it seems to be greatly mis-defined.

Love is any of a number of emotions related to a sense of strong affection and attachment. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure ("I loved that meal") to intense interpersonal attraction ("I love my wife"). This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states.

So, on Wikipedia, the mass has decided that love is an emotion. It seems one sided to me. Emotion is kind of messy. I don't think love is messy and shouldn't be categorized under something as meager as emotion. I think love is very exacting and unpredictable at the same time. It is a feeling that involves all senses. It makes you do things. It determines your life. It is looking into someones eyes and finding truth. Absolute truth in that moment. It lives in the now, not in the future or the past. Its using your eyes to allow a gateway to another persons soul while they do the same. I believe that any and every living part of the human body may be used. You could call love a kind of energy... that is limitless. An energy. A dangerous but a very dedicated energy that is both harmonious and rational. It doesn't take the side of righteousness or evil. It is what it is. I do not relate God to love. I believe love to be one of God's qualities, but not as God herself.

Love is not to be neglected. It is what drives all living beings to survive for without love, there is no life. Love can be found in anything, not only other people. Love is like the flame of a candle. When it burns brightly, that is when you feel that energy to do what ever it is that is driving you. When the flame is low and shimmering, that is when you feel you hate this world and seem asylum in death. Having love keeps me alive. I think it is the reason why everyone is still alive, even if it is just a little bit.

Try not to be naive in saying that this man or that woman has no love in their souls because of the pain they caused you. It's if there is no love for anything in a person they would be dead. Evil is far from the opposite of Love. Hate is the opposite only in loves shallow encyclopedic definition. Love has no opposite. Love lives on all sides. It encompasses everything.

Have love. Embrace love. Feel fear love and live.

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