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The Meaning Of Love
The Meaning of Love What exactly is love? Is there an absolute meaning to the
word - love? Or is it purely subjective? The concept of true love is what we
search for all our lives. Yet love is one of the most misunderstood concepts of
all. What people really want more than anything else is to be loved
unconditionally; to be accepted for who we are, and still be loved. Sometimes we
will do some crazy things, in the name of love. Love is actually the choice one
makes to put someone's wishes, desires and needs above our own. Many people
confuse the word love with the meaning of the word want or desire. For example,
sometimes when a young man tells the woman of his dreams, I love you, when he
means that he wants her because of his own selfish desires. He's the one that
may feel all excited over her, but in reality he may want her because of her
physical appearance, or because of her mentality or her ability to make him feel
good or important. Notice his primary motive for pursuing her is based on
himself and his desires; not on pleasing her, although he may choose to please
her, but that's only based upon the fulfillment of his wants. The same goes for
a young woman, when she says to the man of her dreams, I love you, she in fact
means that she wants him because of his physical appearance, status, mentality
or his ability to make her feel good or important. This usage of the word love
for the meaning of the word want is ever so present in the way we use and abuse
it. Since we are selfish creatures, and our understanding of love is to first be
pleased, look at how this word is overused. · I love Papa John's pizza. · I just
love Gone with the Wind. · I loved Titanic. · I love Jazz Music. · I love
Beethoven. · I love The Island of Dr. Moreau. To better understand the concept
of love, lets define the value of love. Love is the most valuable commodity in
the world. We all need love just like a fish needs water. Without love, life
would not be worth living. With love in our lives, we are empowered beyond
belief. Without love in our lives we will shrivel up and die a slow, painful and
lonely death. Love is the very essence and core of our being. It is the energy
that sustains who and what we are. Everyone in life has a deep-rooted desire to
love and be loved. Many times people only recognize love in its emotional form.
We might hear people on television say things like, I don't love you anymore, as
they express their emotional feelings. However, love is a lot more than what we
feel. Love is a spiritual form of energy that can be given or received in
physical, emotional, or mental forms. Love usually starts in our thoughts, then
spreads to the physical world through our actions, and then it will produce the
emotional feelings. For example, it is possible to be angry with our spouse and
force ourselves to do something nice for them in our actions, like buying
flowers. Pretty soon our emotions kick in and after we see how happy our partner
is upon receiving the gift, our emotions will follow. Love is a spiritual gift
from a supreme force that starts mentally and finds its way to physical
expression, but the emotional feelings we call love have very little to do with
what love really is all about. Furthermore, love can also come in healthy and
unhealthy forms. Love is an energy that can be used in a positive, healthy
manner or a negative, unhealthy manner. There is unconditional love, which is
very accepting, supporting and forgiving. There is tough love, which is
disciplined, authoritative and conforming. For example, if a father's son were
using drugs, he could unconditionally love him and accept his destructive
behavior, hoping that he doesn't overdose and die. Or he could use tough love
and put him in a rehabilitation hospital in an attempt to save his life. So as a
result, too much tough love can be unhealthy, just like too much unconditional
love can be unhealthy. The acceptance of love also plays a role in better
understanding the concept of love. Many times we give love to our partner the
same way we would like to receive it. But loving a person this way might not be
in their best interests. If our gift of love fails to promote the good in the
other person, they might not like it and reject it. Other times we might expect
to be loved by our partners in the same way we were loved as children by our
parents. For example, if our parents made us feel loved by buying us things, we
might associate loving actions especially in the form of gifts, jewelry, clothes
and expensive toys. Our partner could be the most loving, supportive,
compassionate, understanding and caring person in the world and it's possible we
could overlook their loving intentions if they didn't come from a store. In
conclusion, to love others takes effort, and in some cases this can be very hard
work. Ideally, we should also be able to love people who we don't particularly
like or find attractive. This is not as unreasonable as it may sound, if we
understand that love is not just a feeling, but it is expressed when we do
something for another person that benefits their spiritual and emotional growth,
which in turn helps them realize their full human potential.
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