What's it all about, anyway...? .__.
what do people mean when they love each other? I've read Scripture, romance stories, and editorials. I've watched movies, TV shows, and debeates. :dizzy:
Most of what people refer to as "love" is a ridiculous storm of emotional and physical affection. These days if you have a "lover" it means you have someone with whom you have sweet 'n' wild sex on a regular basis. e.e;
That's nice...but is that it? is that as far as you can go in love? Maybe I don't know enough about love to make a fair judgment, but...all the modern connotations (meanings) that people put into the word "love" seem to fall short every time of what to me is the best definition of love yet. I learned it when I was still a high school freshman, and it's stayed with me ever since:
Love is a noun, and Love is a verb. :l
It is a deed, and it is the performing of that deed. You don't just "feel" real love. In reality, you do it. You choose to do it. "True Love" in fact is independent of all the emotional sentiment, all the erotic pleasure, and all the affection.
To Love someone is to desire their ultimate good, to paraphrase some writer or philosopher whose name I can't remember. >.>; To take it a step further, love does not merely desire that good, but deliberately works to accomplish it.
No better wisdom have I seen in all the philosophy and popular wisdom of this world than in these simple words: "Love your enemies;...Repay evil with good;...Love your neighbor as you love yourself;...Love God with your whole being"
These simple phrases are interconnected. They all begin, for the Christian, with loving God first and foremost. An intimate relationship with God produces an abundance of love that pours into every part of a person's life, allegedly transforming all our natural desires and making them higher and better than before.
I believe it...yet it sounds a little hollow to me
especially since I am as single as ever. I wonder nowadays if I'll ever find that special someone. I doubt that I could even hold on to that person if such a one existed. It feels like I'm "doomed" to be single and thus, (by the rules God has set for me) celibate, the rest of my life...Unless I decided not to believe in and follow His rules anymore (maybe I misinterpreted them?)...in which case...heh, my life would probably mutate into some kind of orgy, an endless quest for fulfillment and satisfaction that would never come...all the while still missing out on the love I truly crave.
*sigh* Valentine's Day...why...? -.-
