MybriefExposition on LOVE
Okay, before I even begin, I really want you all to just forget you are actually in a
body, or a human, or using your eyes to read. This subject is too complicated
for me to grasp with all these foolish distractions, so I just want you to read this
all, ponder it , perhaps, and then reflect, if in some way I have affected your
outlook.
What is love? I ponder this question quite a bit, due to how ambiguous
everyone the dispute about whether it exists or not is. Some people say “well
anyone can love, love is when you and another person hold hands and kiss”, or
on the polar opposite of the ‘believers’ there is the ‘intellectual’ group who says
“I refuse to love at this period in my life, as it doesn’t exist”. I won’t try to prove
either of these group wrong, as they are, in a really abstract sense, both correct.
And, in my eyes, both incorrect.
It seems, at the ‘teenager’ level (silly hormone-driven pubescent zombies), age
is a big factor. It’s peoples excuse to not allow an emotion to exist. The mature
people, whom I have grow a deep distaste for, as they are try much too hard to
grow up, and become worldly, believe that ‘teenagers can’t love’. Well, in some
ways, I agree. See, during these years, we have so many emotions running
through each and every one of us; Angst, strife, anger, happiness, lust. We
know not what exactly what we are thinking, and tend to exaggerate. Let’s say,
for example, that a girl’s family decides to make sardine soup. The girl boldly
states “I HATE THAT!”, when in all actuality, she merely dislikes it. We all
exaggerate our emotions, and it has grown into a pandemic of sorts. You
cannot hate clothes, fashion, or anything of that material spectrum, unless you
are so utterly attached to it that the emotion is somehow that powerful. You are
more likely to just dislike it, or an emotion of less potent force, but really, the
only things people should hate are other people. Even then, you should try to
examine “why do I hate this person, what makes them so special”. Again, you
most likely just dislike them, as hate is to harsh of an emotion. Teenagers, and
humans in general, exaggerate these emotions excessively, so this is why the
question of “why do I feel this way” is pantomime to love.
Due to the fact that love has no universal definition, and there are many types of
love, one mustn’t just detach themselves from the emotion so simply and
violently. It is an emotion that we all are capable of experiencing, at any age, so
we just have to let it grow, along with our open-ness to the wisdom it can
provide. If you tell yourself that “you cannot love, because teenagers don’t
understand love and are too young ‘at this age’”, then you are just being
fallacious. Every human sees love in a different way, because love cannot be
defined simply, unless you follow what society says is the ‘norm’. One should
just allow themselves to love people in different ways, whether romantic,
sexual, platonic or another form, at any age. Perhaps, when you are four, you
love your lego more that anything, when you are 14, perhaps you have found
someone to ‘love’, in a 14-year-old-way. If you deject yourself from something,
how will you know when you are “mature enough” or if you are at the “right age”.
What is the right age? Who presented the magic number, and told us that only
adults can truly understand ‘love’. Everybody can love; it’s an abstract concept,
so I don’t see why one must try to forcefully deter themselves from experiencing
it.
Although, when it comes to this “deter-ing”, I am semi-hypocritical. I personally
won’t be romantic with most/any people, unless I can first experience a platonic
love, or just a unique and abstract form of love. For the most part, it is rare that
someone, if attracted to you in the sexual/romantic, will want to ‘just be friends
and see what happens’. It’s more likely they will want their breath taken, the
perfect crime committed, and in the end, a most definite disaster. Why is it that
these “jump-into-romance” relationships always end in a cataclysm?
I think it’s because once you are “romantic”, you should just stay as if you are
best friends + a bit more. Generally, we take on the title of ‘boyfriend and
girlfriend” because we get the endearment. You fall in love with the body, the
compliments, the kissing, making out, and more. As you get to know the person
for who they truly are, they become less and less attractive, and eventually, you
realize that you had made a mistake, and then there is a break up. I don’t
believe in that kind of insane jump, personally. I accept that Love is a reality,
and I just let it live inside of me, like all emotions, without restricting anything,
but I don’t just fall in love with people I don’t know. As I learn more about a
person, and their flaws/perfections become more apparent, I will either grow
more attached to them, or nothing will happen, because there isn’t a
connection (chemistry, for you romantics).
Love is fluid. In the ideal relationship, it starts as just a small trickle, then, as
new paths form, and new information is gathered, the trickle becomes a
stream, the stream into a tributary, then river, then it flows into a pond, then to a
lake, then to the ocean. There should be a slow progression, of getting to know
a person, and loving all the quirks and bends in the person, having the person
requite the love back, and then have that connection when from somewhere in
another vast ocean, you collide in friendship/romance/something else.
So perhaps, one should just accept the fact that love exists, and let it grow on
you, and stop trying to point out how ‘mature you are’. Likewise, you people who
are in love needn’t publically announce it to the world; it’s your love and your
love alone, so keep it that way. We don’t care to feel worse than you, because
we don’t have anyone in the same way as you. Perhaps we have a different
love, and perhaps our love is so much more than anything you can ever
comprehend, we won’t say anything, that’s vain, selfish, and just rude. Live
everyday as positively, and wisely as you can muster. Have fun with life, let
yourself experience things, and don’t sanction an idea, because you are “too
good for it”. Most likely, you are not.
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My beliefs on the subject of love is perplexing, even to me. I believe in love, or at
least, I believe the emotion exists, and I allow myself to love different things in
different ways. I look for true beauty because I want someone who doesn’t just
look at me on a bad day and say “hmm, I changed my mind about you; our
love/friendship is over, because your looks appall me”. Now most of the people
I have met, have been very considerate, and my personality has swayed them,
but in the end, I have only found 2 people who I believe I really, deeply love,
more that just a friend love. These people have very headstrong attitudes, are
willing to bring me back down to earth, and are willing to share an opinion.
There is an uncanny connection, that due to my eccentric disposition, I rarely
find. It just seems that in a growing marketplace for advice and facts, it’s the
ones who look into it, look at everything and discuss, and remain generally
un-biased (unless there is a case such as godhatesfags.com , retain an
intellectual bias, and try to tolerate their… difference).
Perhaps Love is similar to Hate, in that it can describe many different things,
from something small like “ I love this shirt (perhaps its your favourite, because
of sentimental value), to some complex relationship indescribable with mere
words, and would require humans to develop further, intellectually. We
shouldn’t sanction the possibility of Love in its immaterial, essential form, from
existing, because it does exist, in the abstract. The more we tell ourselves we
don’t want it, the more cynical and bitter we will get. I have grown to believing
that maturity isn’t based on how many things you believe you are right about, or
how often you prove that you are correct, and everyone else is “shallow”.
Maturity, in my eyes, is a state that reflects ones decision to live their life for
themselves, experience as much as possible, and reflect on things in a logical
manner. Who’s to say something is stupid, when they have never tried it, or
have never let themselves discover the full extent of something. All you bitter
people who say “I refuse to love as a teen, it only ends in heart break” should
reflect upon what you believe love is. It’s different for each and ever person.
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The most common thing people have begun to say to me lately was “you are
cute”, and while that is flattering, I find it to be a pitiful outcome of what our
media has done to us as a once thoughtful race (hello Plato, Socrates, Poe,
and the like). All the people on TV may be hot and sexy, as they are presented to
be that way, but it seems the ones who are actually good at what they do, and
take pride in what they do, are the ones who are beautiful. Beauty isn’t
something one possess with flawless skin, nice teeth, or anything of that
nature, beauty is in the realm of intellect. When someone is beautiful, it’s clear
to see, because they possess certain characteristics in their disputation that are
astounding and beautiful, to a state of uncanny brilliance. Perhaps they
possess humour, not silly jokes from MTV,mind you, but there own. Maybe they
have Wit and Opinion, intellect, courage, empathy. Hopefully, you find positive
attributes beautiful, and not things such as Ignorance, Vanity, Egocentricity, etc.
A commonly used cliché is “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” (I use it on
occasion myself), and I find it to be both wonderful and terrible in what it states.
Each individual has specific character traits they find to be Beautiful, but when
they start basing it upon looks solely, then that is when you have a problem. Or,
if you say that” wealth is important”, there is something gravely wrong. I find that
to be the most vain, egocentric statement ever. Beauty isn’t how much
make-up you put on, if you are wearing the hottest clothes, how nice you hair is.
Being beautiful requires time and effort, but in the way of discovering who you
are, what you love, and following the beating of your own drum. I generally find
that there are many beautiful people in this world, but compared to everyone
else, there is a dramatic lack of beauty.
In conclusion, to be beautiful, one must just accept themselves, and love
themselves, forge their own path, no matter what repercussion there are. Love
how you live, and live how you would love to. Perhaps then we can expand upon
the concept of love. Love loving True Beauty. What a truly beautiful concept.
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