"We all want to fall in love. Why? Because that experience makes us feel completely alive. Where every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, and hour, an afternoon. But that doesn't diminish its value. Because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives."
"Love is when the woman of your dreams becomes a reality and sleep stops being a priority."
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.” – Neil Gaiman
While we are connected by the common thread of love, we must realize that love comes in all shapes, sizes, and flavors. No two people feel love in the same way no matter what kind of love it is. No two mothers love their children in the same way. Two brothers can love each other in completely different ways. Two men will love a woman in ways that seem polar opposites, and yet all of these things are called love. What is love? How one defines love tells a lot about them, so I feel like defining the various types of love I can think of.
Familial Love - This love is the love felt between members of a family for one another. Personally I think that this is probably the second most powerful form of love. There are three people in this world that I can honestly say I would give my life to save without any second thoughts, and those three people are my parents and brother. I have felt this love since my childhood, and every time I am home it seems to increase. I am not ashamed to say that I cried today when I saw my little brother walking without a bent back and limping gait.
Parental Love - As I said earlier, Familial love is in my opinion the second most powerful form of love. Well, Parental love, which is similar, is what I believe is truly the most powerful. While I currently have never experienced this love personally, I can honestly say I have been a recipient of this love. Every once and a while my parents will do something that shows me how much they care about me and I am humbled by the scope of that love.
Friendly Love - Ok, so the name for this one sucks, but I couldn't think of another word to describe it. This is the love that is shared between friends. There is nothing romantic or sexual about this love. Connected to the way you feel when you are around your close friends, the people you can just be yourself around, this love is a special thing that far too few people in this world actually experience.
Romantic Love - One of the greatest concepts to come out of Medieval England, romantic love took the act of loving someone and turned it into an art form. In romantic love mere words are not enough; songs, poetry, paintings, and sculptures have all been used to express romantic love.
“There are two sorts of romantics: those who love, and those who love the adventure of loving”
The second of those two people is the true romantic lover. Romantic love isn't about just your feelings. Romantic love is how you express those feelings, how you dive down into those feelings and let them take you to the heights and depths of the human condition. (Can you tell who is a hopeless romantic?)
"True" Love - This love is one of the most common in the world today. Note that the word True is in quotes. This love is the lust that most people feel and call true love. Far too many relationships and even marriages in today's society are built on this false love. Lust is a fleeting and untrue feeling that should not be relied upon when making any decisions. If people learned to separate lust from love, the number of divorces in this world would plummet astronomically. This "love" is also the foundation of most crushes and high school relationships.
True Love - Ah, the real thing. Real true love is perhaps one of the most sought after things by any human being. Having never experienced it personally, I have to rely on books, songs, quotes, and stories passed down to me by family members. If true love is everything that the books and songs have said it is, then true love is the ultimate drug. True love takes love to a level that is unsurpassed in human experience. Through the eyes of someone in true love, their partner is and always will be the most amazing human being that has ever lived. If someone is in the throes of true love, they spend every day asking how they got so lucky and begging whatever higher power is out there to allow it to continue.
Well, it is time for me to make fun of myself by talking about . . .
Love of the Martyr - This love is all to common and annoying . . . even to those who exhibit it. In this type of love, the indivual in question keeps his feelings to himself and a few friends, allowing it to consume it from the inside. When he finally does tell others about his feelings, he complains that they aren't being listened to and spents hours and hours ranting to his friends that things aren't the way they should be. When his friends don't pity him as much as he feels they should, he ends up sulking by himself. After a while though, he realizes that he is being a whiny little bitch and moves on with his life.
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On a side note, I went to the doctor's office today to have that mole looked at, and it is nothing.
I also had a nice long conversation with my mother about our little altercation the other day. After giving her an overview of the situation (I didn't give any names or mention where she might have known any of the individuals involved), she just looked at me and shook her head. Her exact words to me afterwards were, "George you have to be the nicest person ever in the world and it is going to be your undoing one of these days. I know that I would never have been able to hold myself back as long as you did. Don't worry though, the right girl is out there somewhere and she won't let anything get between the two of you. . . ever."
I love my mom.
1 comment:
once again u seem to have summed up almost the whole of what i think most of the time.....its really scary and i wish it would stop, but i really don't....u seem to rationalize how i feel sometimes (really hope this doesn't come off as assholely, cause i luv george).
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