After one too many drinks or perhaps not enough, an interesting conversation arose last night - What is Love?
While I am no expert and cannot answer a question that's been asked since beginning of time, there are a few factors to ponder:
1. Is true love always tragic?
2. Does true love really exist (outside of plays, novels, movies & other pop culture mediums)?
3. Does every person experince love during their lifetime?
4. Is your first love the strongest?
More thoughts to come...for now an interesting piece of reading...
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up these defenses, you build this whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life. You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They do something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own any more. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. not just in the mind. It's a soul hurt, a body hurt, a real gets inside you and rips you apart pain. I hate love. - Neil Gaiman
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So insightful. WOW! I'm a changed man. Well no not really but good try.
ReplyDeleteAter pondering on this for some time I have found the definition for love. ENJOY!
ReplyDeleteLOVE, n.
A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.
According to ancient Greek culture, there are four kinds of “love” -AGAPE, PHILEO, STORGE, and EROS.
ReplyDeleteAgape love is an unconditional love. It loves and cares when there is no apparent reason to care. Example is the type of love God shows toward us.
Phileo love is that “something” that you see in another person that draws you to be their friend.
Storge is a physical show of affection like Hug and Kiss that results from a pure motive.
Eros is the fulfillment of the physical sexual desire that a husband and wife show toward each other.
From Sex and the City: Real love - Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love.
ReplyDeleteИстинная любовь похожа на привидение: все о ней говорят, но мало кто ее видел.
ReplyDeleteФ. Ларошфуко.
Философия любви...
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Если ты любишь что-нибудь, дай ему свободу. Если оно вернется - оно будет твоим навеки. Если оно не вернется, значит оно никогда не принадлежало тебе. Но....если оно просто сидит в твоей комнате, смотрит твой телевизор, приводит в беспорядок твои вещи, ест твою еду, говорит по твоему телефону,забирает у тебя деньги и совершенно не подозревает, что ты-то давным-давно подарил ему свободу, значит ты либо женат на этом, либо родил это....
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Your Sister Lina....
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ReplyDeleteЛюбовь бежит от тех,
ReplyDeleteКто гонится за нею,
А тем, кто прочь бежит,
Кидается на шею.
У. Шекспир
Когда тебя любят, не сомневаешься ни в чем. Когда любишь сам, во всем сомневаешься.(Колетт)
Ангелы зовут это небесной отрадой, черти адской мукой, люди - любовью.
Г. Гейне.
Любовь можно заслуженно назвать трижды вором - она не спит, смела и раздевает людей догола.
Диоген.
Когда нет того, что любишь, приходится любить то, что есть.
Т. Корнель
В любви теряют рассудок, в браке же замечают эту потерю.
М. Сафир
LOVE: Loss Of Valuable Energy
Есть любовь студенческая: когда есть - с кем, есть - чем, но нет - где. Есть любовь одинокая: когда есть - где, есть - чем, но нет - с кем. Есть любовь несчастная: когда есть - где, есть - с кем, но нет - чем. Есть любовь философская: когда есть - где, есть - с кем, есть - чем, но - зачем?
ReplyDeleteBasic Principles: There are none
ReplyDeleteJust finished watching the movie "Hitch," corny as it may be there are no rules when it comes to love. We all do stupid things and it is the stupid things that we do when we are with the one we love that make them fall in love with us...that is if we are all so lucky.
Maybe we all just overcomplicate the definition of love. I like Brian's definition..."Love is something big in your heart." <3
ReplyDelete-your cousin Anna-
Влюбленность - это когда не замечаешь недостатков. Любовь - это когда ценишь достоинства.
ReplyDeletelove in Sports. A zero score in tennis.
ReplyDeleteTriangular theory of love : love has three different components: Intimacy, Commitment, and Passion. Intimacy is a form where two people can share secrets and various details of their personal lives. Intimacy is usually shown in friendships and romantic love affairs. Commitment on the other hand is the expectation that the relationship is going to last forever. The last and most common form of love is simply sex, or passion. Passionate love is shown in infatuation as well as romantic love. This led researchers such as Yela to further refine the model by separating Passion into two independents components: Erotic Passion and Romantic Passion.
ReplyDeleteMore lovely than all other womanhood, luminous, perfect
A star coming over the sky-line at new year, a good year,
Splendid in colors, with allure in the eye's turn.
Her lips are enchantment, her neck the right length and her breasts a marvel;
Her hair lapis lazuli in its glitter, her arms more splendid than gold.
Her fingers make me see petals, the lotus' are like that.
Her flanks are modeled as should be, her legs beyond all other beauty.
Noble her walking
My heart would be a slave should she enfold me.
Жить с человеком, которого любишь, также трудно,
ReplyDeleteкак любить человека, с которым живешь.
Любовь вечна... только партнеры меняются.
Любовь с первого взгляда приходит после второй бутылки.
VERY INTERESTING: http://people.howstuffworks.com/love2.htm
ReplyDeletehttp://www.outofbalance.org/love/love-act.html
ReplyDelete"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”
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