Love

[Aquaplant]

Well isn't this a sappy thread.

*Hits the thread with the hammer of reality*

One can talk about luxury things like love when life is easy, but the moment things start to go wrong, the concept of love devaluates to nothing.

[Stanley_9875]

That's what unconditional love is for... You love someone so much your willing to sacrafice yourself for them, you love someone even ifyou fight there's still that love... Unfortunatly society thinks it's okay to break their vows of love to each other and get a divorce and hate each other... They didn't know what unconditional love is

[Human No More]

Originally Posted by Aquaplant

Well isn't this a sappy thread.

*Hits the thread with the hammer of reality*

One can talk about luxury things like love when life is easy, but the moment things start to go wrong, the concept of love devaluates to nothing.

I disagree. REAL love is always there.

[omaticaya]

Originally Posted by rapunzel77

True love does not put any conditions on the beloved (ie. I will love you if.....). True love accepts the beloved as they are, not what you want them to be. Love also requires patience, kindness, honesty, and truth. It requires compassion and empathy. It requires that one shut up and listen to the other, especially in the midst of their pain and suffering.

Thank you Rapunzel, very well said, that is exactly how I'd define love, athough I couldn't have said it so well.
Love is the constant wish to make someone happy and to do good things to him/her without expecting anything in return.

Originally Posted by rapunzel77

There are other forms that are not really love. We say that we love pizza, movies, cars, etc. That isn't the same kind of love. That is more an attachment to things. Unfortunately, the English language is very limiting in its definitions of love. We only have one word to describe all of them. I guess that is also why it can sound so cliched since it is used for everything.

I recently talked about the overuse of the word love in the English language to one of our tsmuke. The German translation "Liebe" is much more powerful to me and I would use it only in very, very special circumstances. What about other languages?

[Fkeu'itan]

As rapunzel said, I believe there are even more forms of love than just these three.

For example, I actually do genuinely love some songs. They hold such a significance for me, I can really honestly say they matter a lot to me. As far as i'm concerned, love is when you share a deep connection with literally anything.

The definitions of love are difficult to understand, but when you use that word in the context, in the moment, both you and whatever you are referring to understand what it means. Not on a language level, rather, an emotionally interpretive level.

[Txantsulsam Fyawintxu]

It's impossible to measure and confine Love... It's like trying to define the impossible. Love is there to be experienced and expressed for each individual. At best, it is like the Sun. You can see that the Sun doesn't reserve its rays of light for just a select few, but rather for all of creation. That's the best way I can accurately describe it. The rest fall away by itself.

[Aquaplant]

I have a problem with things that can't be reasoned in any proper way. Everything happens for a reason, but what is the reason for love? Does it serve any purpose, or is it just a thing used to explain affection?

As I have so little experience on the matter, the only thing I can do is to observe and speculate, which has yet to produce any substantial results.

[Spock]

Originally Posted by Aquaplant

I have a problem with things that can't be reasoned in any proper way. Everything happens for a reason, but what is the reason for love? Does it serve any purpose, or is it just a thing used to explain affection?

As I have so little experience on the matter, the only thing I can do is to observe and speculate, which has yet to produce any substantial results.

The purpose? You must understand that life itself does not follow logic. Not always.

Love can give you an experience beyond any other. Unfortunately it can also give you untenable pain.