I think this means you do not love just because. You love because you feel the connection and passion between you and your soul mate. You love because you care. There is a lot more to love than just "love" in bed so to speak.
What is love? Love to me has many different definitions. Love is waking up to your soul mate in bed. Just watching him sleep peacefully and wondering what he is dreaming about. Love is having your soul mate trying to anything and everything to help you get over your cold by treating you like a princess. Love is knowing that God gave you another day to live life to the fullest. Love is still caring for your sister even though she makes mad. Love is just giving a smile to everyone you see. It could really change someones day. Love is coming home to your dog and just seeing how excited she is to see you. Love is comforting someone through a time of loss of a loved one. Love is giving back to those who have less than you do. Love is taking time out of your busy live style to help someone who can no longer get up and move like we can. Love is your mother, who is single and raising you and your sister, and helps you pay for college even though money is tight.
As you can see love can be many things. Your love grows as you get older and start to have children. Just remember that you do not love just because. You love because you chose too. So what does love mean to you?
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ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading this first post, Danielle. I hope you continue with the same theme as we move through Gatsby and the rest of the Pods.
ReplyDeleteThis was an interesting post to come across. As I mentioned in my blog today, I am getting married in September. I also have been thinking about love a lot as I go through premarital counseling with my significant other.
ReplyDeleteIt has over-all been helpful to go through therapy because what we have most learned so far is to really take the time to identify with the other one and get to the heart of what they are feeling. Even more than that, we have learned how to comfort each other when we need support.
Love is crazy and wild, it is healthy, it can be twisted and confused. I think of A Streetcar Named Desire, one of our more recent reads when I think of twisted and confused. Now there is a juicy story. It opens with a couple who is very locked into gender roles. The man is in charge and comes and goes as he pleases. The woman cooks and takes care of the home. In the end the way they make up and solve their differences is not through discussing them, but through the act of sex. It is for this reason that Blanche DuBois is such an interference- the two can't have sex and work out their differences while she is staying with them.
Would we say that they aren't in love??? Well, no I suppose not. But they aren't being very loving towards one-another, that is for certain. It is definitely interesting to look at the literature we have read and think about love. About a boy's love for his father and choosing honesty over it. About a man who makes his fortune for the woman he loves and ends up dead. About two people who are never meant to be together and on one stormy night feelings erupt in a passion play. There have been star-crossed lovers all over the place, and none of them have really worked out. There has only been some sort of tragedy, more or less. I guess that would be why it is wise for me to do pre-marital counseling! But seriously, love is a totally convoluted ideal that everyone seems to seek out and it gets them in a LOT of trouble.
thanks. when i first wrote this we have not even got to that book. now that i read my post again it does make me think of the book streetcar named desire. i would like to say congratulation on getting married. if you have not read my other blogs you will know that i am getting married in October. i can not wait. hope you have a great wedding day in September and i wish the best of luck :)
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