What is love?

By writer one · Sep 27, 2015 · 623 · 2
  1. The word caring comes to mind. Fed clothed taken care of etc. But they say that kissing and hugging are the essential's in caring and love. I feel I was left out tog that loop when I was a child. My parents cared for me the best they knew how is my excuse for not understanding the true word called love. I never remembered kissing or hugging my two children, but my two boys and I went everywhere together. They are grown now and I am reflecting these thoughts from my past. They know and understand I love them faults and all and vice versa.

    I think the more one truly, loves the harder it is to not cry when they die. Age I have down perfectly, remembering ones past brings depression tears and regret the things one didn't do when one had the chance to do. For the rest of my life the only thing I can do, "is love everybody" regardless of there faults. My heart is broken with these memories. God forgive me as well. My emotions have all my life controlled me and not vice versa.

    Is it better to love with the mind instead of the heart? Is it possible to love from the mind than the heart? It is said, love comes from the heart, understanding comes from the mind. It would seem both these entities are spiritual, if that is the case how can one not believe in God? writer one

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  1. Lew
    I deal with love in my book, both the love that a leader of soldiers must have for his men, and the love between a man and a woman. Basically, the Greeks had three words for love: eros, just plain sex, and quite selfish emotion at that; philias, what we would call friendship or fellowship; and the highest, agape (last e is not silent) which is the willingness to die, or sacrifice something equally valuable, for another. Several of my characters have the opportunity for an agape moment.

    I don't think that agape love is an emotion. It is a rational choice to suffer pain for another, or the willingness to do so. Though as my heroine says to her lover at a particularly intimate moment, "Eros goes well with agape."

    And of course, God exists... it would be irrational to think otherwise.
    Lew, Oct 1, 2015
  2. writer one
    Well put. Writer One
    writer one, Oct 1, 2015
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