What is your idea of love and how significant is it in the spectrum of life?
When I was 5, love was introduced to me as a divine blessing, hard to attain. If you were loved by someone, they'd give you a card on Valentines Day. Judging by movies, they'd get married and kiss a lot. In TV shows, the boy would always give the girl flowers. My parents were young and my grandparents were old and that told me love lasted a long time. I was so simple and naive; I always thought about meeting the love of my life and so closely attached myself to love, as an ideal.
But, growing up, still, love to me was the hero of every story. One of those things you see old people do and thought was beautiful, but never understood why it was beautiful. All I knew was that I wanted it - whenever I was old enough to have it.
I don't know if this influences my reasoning of love's importance in all of life.. I have bound my hip to this glorified idea of love so much that ... Either I fell in love with this idea, or knew this idea of love was real just by how this idea made me feel - and that, if this idea were a man, a conscious human being who perceives, interprets and responds to the love I give him, then maybe he could reciprocate this idea of love back, and it could animate an illustration of feelings painted by two artists into a full, complete, and beautiful work of art.
This glorified version of love may not be the same for everyone.. But love to me is the completion of a complete human being. It's one thing to give love (a thing that family and religion has raised us to do), but it's a complete 360 to receive it. Love has governed how we choose to live our lives. We've been taught all our lives that there is someone out there who god-willingly chooses to love you for what you are; And will even get a government certificate just to spend the rest of their life with you. We go about our lives in search of who this person might be.. in constant competition with time; because no one wants to be alone the rest of their lives. People wind up unhappy, lost or broken having lost love. But the only reason they are unhappy is because for whatever reason the one they love is not or no longer loving them back. We read it in books, see it in movies, ... But media and society couldn't be falsifying the whole thing - if that were the case, then songs, written by other people, couldn't speak what our hearts feel. There must be a reason why when you found love, you feel like you found it all. For the same reason that nothing feels like everything with her/him.
Love is just that important because going far in life means going together. Because theres someone out there who may make life worth living; Or someone you might want to do all of your greatest adventures with; Or someone who music just sounds so much better with; Or someone who makes love movies look so dull by comparison; Or someone who is that "sun" after a long night; Or someone who makes you laugh more than the funniest comedian in the world could; Or someone who for whatever reason makes a carpet, a fish and a video game remind you of them; THAT someone. There is no greater God-given blessing than a God-given love projected through a person who loves you, flaw and all, just the same.
