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Monday, September 20, 2010
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The article at hand presents a representation of love as a tool of manipulation through which we are "brainwashed" to consume. Although an accurate depiction of the way media uses this very familiar emotion to create our desires, i am a strong believer in the idea that love is in fact a human social necessity. Now, As far as the theory of "agape" or "selfless love" is concerned, the fact of self benefit must be taken into consideration. Many loving acts seem selfless to the observer, and even to the individuals directly involved, but the act was performed in some nature of self-fulfillment. Whether it be the satisfaction of a "good deed" or simply the knowing that through that kind and sensitive act, you have reassurance of that persons continued affection, and ultimately, reassurance of their loyalty and commitment to you. This resorting back to the question of whether love is used in some sort of selfish manipulation, to which i answer in most cases as yes. There is no doubt about the idea that the representation of love used in western civilization is in fact a form of civilized domestication as well, in which we are forced upon the idea that love is necessary for "normal" living, as well as the idea that happiness cannot be achieved without love, or that "love is all you need" like that infamous beetles song so blatently "taught" its listeners.
Through experience, i would say that love and respect are quite possibly achieved by the continued understanding and prolonged patience between individuals, so i do believe in its existance between humans. Although with no respect all that is left is the temporary "passionate" love, and no compassionate love would be possible, equating to the impossibility of friendships and fair family relations. Now a question i pose is, with an ever changing value system americas youth is experiencing, how long will respect be a major factor of love, and will materialism ever engulf this priority, transforming the idea of love itself as we know it?
* Jumbled fine print in the last 3 seconds: LOVE manufactured by Wes-Terly inc. is a PLACEBO which may have the adverse side-effects of: mania, obsession, depression, separation anxiety, controlling behavior, delusions, regression, violent behavior, lethargy, irresponsibility, shift in values, leaving less time for other pursuits, marriage, children, abortions, fights, divorces, anorexia, death, obesity, running thoughts... Please talk to your soul about whether LOVE is right for you. *closing: romantic piano music. How can a small heart-shaped, chalky pink pill be attributed such a great list of powers? This placebo is chopped up and liquified to use as Pepto-bismol. Love is the one-fits-all excuse. Did you kill your wife? "Oh, yes, but I did it out of love". -Daniella Lopez
Many individuals in the physical world do not clearly fathom the basic comprehension and essential principle that comprises the anatomy of the word love. Every person’s intellectual understanding and use of the word substantially differs, on behalf of the level of maturity and perception that the individual subconsciously possesses. The funny thing about this world is that the majority of the population primarily young adolescents are easily deceived by what they perceive to be beautiful. They become easily attracted by passion, desire, and lust and these emotions are susceptible to trigger the negative emotions such as anger, hate, and jealousy that will inevitably lead to violence and even death. But what happens when the ‘loved one’ has a severe accident (God forbid) such as, his or her face is burned? What if they become physically injured and need around the clock assistance? Or the person who appeared to be the “Prince Charming” or “Cinderalla” ends up being more like Cruella de Vil? Desires and passions are only illusionary because it will surely dissipate, disappear, and be forever forgotten. Love needs respect compassion, humanity, and honesty like that of a family, a devoted friend, a believer to his or her God. Nevertheless every individual loves differently. There’s the obsessive demented maniacs that are manipulated through their sexual desires and tend to have no self control, and there are those that behold respect. The individuals that regard veneration have a mature mental capacity to realize that time and beauty is only transitory and involves more than just desire and passion. I believe that many people adopt love as a need, as a remedy, or as a substitute to be content and satisfied with his or her life. However, it is not a necessity to be happy in this way, the problem is that many individuals do not delve into the depths of life’s understandings for there are many passageways and circuits that will demonstrate that love is only illusionary, like time it doesn’t exist. Take for instance the loss of a love. We loved the person in the past but now that the person is physically or mentally gone, our level of love would not be equaled to the past, due to the passage of time. I believe that love is a mystery to the mind. Perhaps it’s just a fantasy, a devotion, or just a simple dream or perhaps it’s just a part of life’s little theme…
I think the bigger question here is, is love based on true sincere love, or based on what most of us think as love, but really is lust. Think about it, in the case of Rihanna and Chris. Chris comes on television spewing I love Rihanna and Im sorry that it happen. As if this abuse happened on its' own taking no responsibility for his actions. Matter of fact this abusive action takes place everyday to non-high profile people with the same or worse effect, however it's the same type of concept behind it "im sorry it happened", "it" belongs to a person whether male or female. Society has bred us to envision lust as love, with words like "i fell in love with/for him/her from the first moment i laid my eyes on them. Is this really possible, especially when our physical attractions are usually formed out of lust. Wow he/she is fine, I want them, we tell ourselves. Do we really want them? all they have to offer, the good and the bad, not considering whether or not he/she dressed that way to attract you out of lust themselves. Then when we do land the relationship with our mate we then realize it wasn't love at all that attracted us but lust and thats when "our version" of love tends to go sour. We now are exposed to their flaws, do we like that.
Consider if you could see a persons entirety at the very point when you first met, you could see that the person was mentally unstable, was married 4 times, abused his/her mate, did not and could not keep a job and the list goes on and on. Would you be attracted to those characteristics at first sight? Probably Not, and that's just my point, as humans we lust first then we love. It's rare that we love first. However, there is a moment where love at first sight can be held true and that's the love and bond between mother and child, that is the type of love that society can not sell us, or can they?hmmmmm....
This post opens up my mind on what love really is ? It questions me about how I perceive love. Is love so strong that it can alter someone perceptions of things ? Is love the key to my heart? Is love just a way of showing how you truly feel about someone ? Can loving someone literally change you? Why can't the idea of love can't exist without the market supporting them? Will love exceed our greed to be desire ? Love is something everyone wants if its with a significant other , a friend or family.
This commentary seeks to define love in many different contexts. It defines love as passionate as is written about in poetry. It also talks about love as selflessness as in a lasting non passionate friendship type relationship. It also talks about love sustained by cultural prodding through media influence. I can understand distinguishing the first two. There are different kinds of love that foster and are sustained by different kinds of emotions but these have been present as long as the human condition. It does not make sense to me to say that this is sustained by some sort of recent cultural media influence when love has been around as long as man. I cannot agree to put a modern interpretation on a phenomena that is age old. If love precedes modern culture and media, modern culture and media certainly do not give rise to love in its many contexts. Ultimately the most common connotation of love is that of passion and heightened emotion that is the basis for poems, novels, and short stories, songs, and art. Even biblically the story of King David defines the two kinds of love mentioned above. The passionate love of David and Batsheva caused David to send Batsheva's husband to his death on the front line so David may have Batsheva as his wife. Secondly, David was in a friendship wife Jonothan which was based on selfless friendship where each loved the other so they would give up their own life for one another. These contexts have not changed much today.
Love definition in today society is “Legs Open Very Easily”. How often someone has used you? They act so perfect, they make us think we have found love when it's the other way around. Some people might say love is strange. Love cannot fix everything. Yes, it can transform a stone heart into magnificence, splendor, and remarkable place. Love is the primary language that every heart speaks. Moreover, love cannot be bought; it is free. On the other hands, many would prefer to say love can transform a good heart into a stone one. In today's society, we cannot see true love due to the material things and money. Love can also make us kill. Now a day, what we call love is more similar to abuse, detestation and hatred. People often use love for selfish reason.
What is love? No one really knows the meaning. Unless of course one believes he/she is in love? Is there a difference with being in love with someone and loving someone? Almost everyone tries to find out what love is, but is it really what the media says it is? In the text it stated that love could be used as a placebo in the media to attract attention to material things. The first thing that came to mind was: Kay Jewelers , Beaches Resort, and so much more.
I can’t help to believe that love can be both a disease and an affectional bond based on the universal tendency for humans to seek closeness in order to experience security. Is too much of something really a bad thing? Of course it is, too much love is an obsession. In the scientific aspect, Love is said to be a serotonin rush, kind of like a rollercoaster or chocolate. Why do we see everything so beautiful when we are in love? Then again, everything so dark and gloomy when we break up or divorce?
Can it be that when somebody is in love they have reached all three elements? Attachment, caring and intimacy. Can it be that in order to just love someone, you must care and feel attachment towards the person? Can that be the difference between being in love and just loving someone? O would compassionate love and passionate love be the same as being in love and loving someone? The colors of love state that Libido is sexual attraction, can it be that players feel that way? They don’t have Eros or Storge, does that mean that they don’t love?
So do we love the way we want because we want or is it manipulated by the system? Now, I do not know what to believe. Could it be that all this time I have been manipulated to believe that love is the source of happiness? Now the only question I ask myself is, Do I know what love is?
Today's Love can be defined in so many ways, depending who defines it. Whether it comes from Middle Eastern or Western culture, youth or elders, male or female, or simply you or me, that live in Miami; we all think different, perceive different, and consequently feel in a singular way. I believe that true love cannot have one definition. But I can definitely speak for myself. I consider that love is when you care and want the best for someone with no self interest. For example, (1)I love my mother, because I care for her and would never want nothing bad for her. (That would be my definition of Love to Family or Relatives, which may also apply to friend love), (2) I love my partner, because I care for this person, and I feel intense admiration and also sexual desire. ( I would consider this Love to Boyfriend/Girlfriend). I think that compassionate love is the one that will make a relationship last, because its the one with no interest. Passionate love, will only last till passion is there.
The media always capitalizes on the emotions of the public. They create an appeal to emotions to promote consumerism. Like the panic of the H1N1 virus would be broadcast on the news followed by a commercial on how little it cost to get the shot at a local pharmaceutical. Though this is true, I do not believe that people love as a result of capitalism. I think that we love the way we love because we want to, but the way we act out that love is controlled by the market. An example of this is buying a bouquet of flowers and heart-shaped candies on Valentines day, which is a true commercial holiday, to show that you care for a person. So capitalism and love are related, but capitalism does not cause the feeling of love just the way we act on it.
There is a good deal of validity in the argument that we love the way we do because of our society's mandates. But on the other hand, I personally have a thin line that I won't cross regardless of whatever magazine ad or Hollywood actor tells me to. That is to say if the corporate conspiracy du jour dictates that true love means marrying someone under 100 lbs, I will be in no hurry to scour the 24 hour gyms in search of a fitness crazed soul-mate. Maybe a part of society with weaker mental integrity is swayed easier by notions of whatever makes money for the machine. Also, it is absolutely plausible to love and respect someone at the same time it just depends on the circumstance. There are relationships rooted in convenience and etc, which is hard to perceive as mutually respectful, but then there are also some which less output is expected in terms of possessions and therefore it is easier to love selflessly and with respect. -Tony Castineyra
Love could be a fabricated emotion that has its own meaning within our thoughts; not two definitions of love could be the same. Love can be measured, observed, and manipulated in many ways one could use thoughts as a variable, but in the end it is the person experiencing it only that can decide whether or not it is destructive to their persona and that of the person they affect.
People in general DO tend to be self destructive in any manner. For example, there could be many times when a woman would rather be with a jerk thinking they can change something that was designed to be as it already is, so they go through the torture of their emotions (also known as the emotional roller coaster). Instead of being with someone who'd be sweet and nurturing they go for what they “cannot have.” To continue with this idea, there are some women who tend to like guys who are already in a relationship because of the confidence they exude or the wanting of something they can’t have excites them. Kids go through this too but in another manner such as toys. Perhaps, love could be conceived as an envy wanting to be destroyed. In other words, we could learn to love for all the wrong reasons. Maybe this is why some marriages crash at mid life; because they have finally come to terms and acceptance of what they really want. An example would be a woman marrying a man that has his flaws; major flaws that have been portrayed before and as she chooses to ignore that fact continues to entomb it in the subconscious of her mind and perhaps that is the major reason for divorce and isolation.
Love is a state of mind just like no other. We are shown over our lifetime that there are different types of love and each of us experiences it differently. One thing we must take into account is how do we define love? If one goes to ask a certain number of individuals, how they define love, the answer would differ for all of them. Because of this we can’t put a label on love on anything else than it being an emotion that we feel in our head. I can say “I love my car” but I can also say “I love my mother”. The way we interpret the word “love” changes on the subject that we are directing our love too. Thus I believe no matter how much we study it, love is just a mix of emotions blended together and given a name to sum up those individual feelings.
Love to me is just a hallmark made emotion. It is used to keep the masses in check, and stimulate certain market. I "love" my girlfriend, but not the love that is beaten into our heads everyday. I feel a great friendship,trust, and security torwards my girlfriend. If there is a love i believe its a friendship between two individuals that feel happy with one another. The love were grown up to believe is find a woman, wine and dine her, make love to her, marry her, have a child with her, and then live life. Now a days its all which girl is the best looking, and best "merchandise". Sure us men are attracted to that, and thats naturally hardwired into us to procreate. For a life partner it takes more than looks. It takes understanding and friendship. Sadly nowadays most guys dont take the time to get to know a woman were forced into believing that having sex with a woman, not even making love to her is top priority. This can be seen in even music nowadays, and this new form of love is an image to sell.
19 comments:
The article at hand presents a representation of love as a tool of manipulation through which we are "brainwashed" to consume. Although an accurate depiction of the way media uses this very familiar emotion to create our desires, i am a strong believer in the idea that love is in fact a human social necessity. Now, As far as the theory of "agape" or "selfless love" is concerned, the fact of self benefit must be taken into consideration. Many loving acts seem selfless to the observer, and even to the individuals directly involved, but the act was performed in some nature of self-fulfillment. Whether it be the satisfaction of a "good deed" or simply the knowing that through that kind and sensitive act, you have reassurance of that persons continued affection, and ultimately, reassurance of their loyalty and commitment to you. This resorting back to the question of whether love is used in some sort of selfish manipulation, to which i answer in most cases as yes. There is no doubt about the idea that the representation of love used in western civilization is in fact a form of civilized domestication as well, in which we are forced upon the idea that love is necessary for "normal" living, as well as the idea that happiness cannot be achieved without love, or that "love is all you need" like that infamous beetles song so blatently "taught" its listeners.
Through experience, i would say that love and respect are quite possibly achieved by the continued understanding and prolonged patience between individuals, so i do believe in its existance between humans. Although with no respect all that is left is the temporary "passionate" love, and no compassionate love would be possible, equating to the impossibility of friendships and fair family relations. Now a question i pose is, with an ever changing value system americas youth is experiencing, how long will respect be a major factor of love, and will materialism ever engulf this priority, transforming the idea of love itself as we know it?
-Alex Perez Calvo
gaegqerg
The heart shaped commercial goes as such:
<3+you+excitement+ stability= everlasting, easy happiness.
* Jumbled fine print in the last 3 seconds:
LOVE manufactured by Wes-Terly inc. is a PLACEBO which may have the adverse side-effects of: mania, obsession, depression, separation anxiety, controlling behavior, delusions, regression, violent behavior, lethargy, irresponsibility, shift in values, leaving less time for other pursuits, marriage, children, abortions, fights, divorces, anorexia, death, obesity, running thoughts...
Please talk to your soul about whether LOVE is right for you.
*closing: romantic piano music.
How can a small heart-shaped, chalky pink pill be attributed such a great list of powers? This placebo is chopped up and liquified to use as Pepto-bismol. Love is the one-fits-all excuse. Did you kill your wife? "Oh, yes, but I did it out of love".
-Daniella Lopez
Many individuals in the physical world do not clearly fathom the basic comprehension and essential principle that comprises the anatomy of the word love. Every person’s intellectual understanding and use of the word substantially differs, on behalf of the level of maturity and perception that the individual subconsciously possesses. The funny thing about this world is that the majority of the population primarily young adolescents are easily deceived by what they perceive to be beautiful. They become easily attracted by passion, desire, and lust and these emotions are susceptible to trigger the negative emotions such as anger, hate, and jealousy that will inevitably lead to violence and even death. But what happens when the ‘loved one’ has a severe accident (God forbid) such as, his or her face is burned? What if they become physically injured and need around the clock assistance? Or the person who appeared to be the “Prince Charming” or “Cinderalla” ends up being more like Cruella de Vil? Desires and passions are only illusionary because it will surely dissipate, disappear, and be forever forgotten. Love needs respect compassion, humanity, and honesty like that of a family, a devoted friend, a believer to his or her God. Nevertheless every individual loves differently. There’s the obsessive demented maniacs that are manipulated through their sexual desires and tend to have no self control, and there are those that behold respect. The individuals that regard veneration have a mature mental capacity to realize that time and beauty is only transitory and involves more than just desire and passion. I believe that many people adopt love as a need, as a remedy, or as a substitute to be content and satisfied with his or her life. However, it is not a necessity to be happy in this way, the problem is that many individuals do not delve into the depths of life’s understandings for there are many passageways and circuits that will demonstrate that love is only illusionary, like time it doesn’t exist. Take for instance the loss of a love. We loved the person in the past but now that the person is physically or mentally gone, our level of love would not be equaled to the past, due to the passage of time. I believe that love is a mystery to the mind. Perhaps it’s just a fantasy, a devotion, or just a simple dream or perhaps it’s just a part of life’s little theme…
I think the bigger question here is, is love based on true sincere love, or based on what most of us think as love, but really is lust. Think about it, in the case of Rihanna and Chris. Chris comes on television spewing I love Rihanna and Im sorry that it happen. As if this abuse happened on its' own taking no responsibility for his actions. Matter of fact this abusive action takes place everyday to non-high profile people with the same or worse effect, however it's the same type of concept behind it "im sorry it happened", "it" belongs to a person whether male or female. Society has bred us to envision lust as love, with words like "i fell in love with/for him/her from the first moment i laid my eyes on them. Is this really possible, especially when our physical attractions are usually formed out of lust. Wow he/she is fine, I want them, we tell ourselves. Do we really want them? all they have to offer, the good and the bad, not considering whether or not he/she dressed that way to attract you out of lust themselves. Then when we do land the relationship with our mate we then realize it wasn't love at all that attracted us but lust and thats when "our version" of love tends to go sour. We now are exposed to their flaws, do we like that.
Consider if you could see a persons entirety at the very point when you first met, you could see that the person was mentally unstable, was married 4 times, abused his/her mate, did not and could not keep a job and the list goes on and on. Would you be attracted to those characteristics at first sight? Probably Not, and that's just my point, as humans we lust first then we love. It's rare that we love first. However, there is a moment where love at first sight can be held true and that's the love and bond between mother and child, that is the type of love that society can not sell us, or can they?hmmmmm....
This post opens up my mind on what love really is ? It questions me about how I perceive love. Is love so strong that it can alter someone perceptions of things ? Is love the key to my heart? Is love just a way of showing how you truly feel about someone ? Can loving someone literally change you? Why can't the idea of love can't exist without the market supporting them? Will love exceed our greed to be desire ? Love is something everyone wants if its with a significant other , a friend or family.
Claudia Hernandez
This commentary seeks to define love in many different contexts. It defines love as passionate as is written about in poetry. It also talks about love as selflessness as in a lasting non passionate friendship type relationship. It also talks about love sustained by cultural prodding through media influence. I can understand distinguishing the first two. There are different kinds of love that foster and are sustained by different kinds of emotions but these have been present as long as the human condition. It does not make sense to me to say that this is sustained by some sort of recent cultural media influence when love has been around as long as man. I cannot agree to put a modern interpretation on a phenomena that is age old. If love precedes modern culture and media, modern culture and media certainly do not give rise to love in its many contexts. Ultimately the most common connotation of love is that of passion and heightened emotion that is the basis for poems, novels, and short stories, songs, and art. Even biblically the story of King David defines the two kinds of love mentioned above. The passionate love of David and Batsheva caused David to send Batsheva's husband to his death on the front line so David may have Batsheva as his wife. Secondly, David was in a friendship wife Jonothan which was based on selfless friendship where each loved the other so they would give up their own life for one another. These contexts have not changed much today.
Love definition in today society is “Legs Open Very Easily”. How often someone has used you? They act so perfect, they make us think we have found love when it's the other way around. Some people might say love is strange. Love cannot fix everything. Yes, it can transform a stone heart into magnificence, splendor, and remarkable place. Love is the primary language that every heart speaks. Moreover, love cannot be bought; it is free. On the other hands, many would prefer to say love can transform a good heart into a stone one. In today's society, we cannot see true love due to the material things and money. Love can also make us kill. Now a day, what we call love is more similar to abuse, detestation and hatred. People often use love for selfish reason.
What is love? No one really knows the meaning. Unless of course one believes he/she is in love? Is there a difference with being in love with someone and loving someone? Almost everyone tries to find out what love is, but is it really what the media says it is? In the text it stated that love could be used as a placebo in the media to attract attention to material things. The first thing that came to mind was: Kay Jewelers , Beaches Resort, and so much more.
I can’t help to believe that love can be both a disease and an affectional bond based on the universal tendency for humans to seek closeness in order to experience security. Is too much of something really a bad thing? Of course it is, too much love is an obsession. In the scientific aspect, Love is said to be a serotonin rush, kind of like a rollercoaster or chocolate. Why do we see everything so beautiful when we are in love? Then again, everything so dark and gloomy when we break up or divorce?
Can it be that when somebody is in love they have reached all three elements? Attachment, caring and intimacy. Can it be that in order to just love someone, you must care and feel attachment towards the person? Can that be the difference between being in love and just loving someone? O would compassionate love and passionate love be the same as being in love and loving someone? The colors of love state that Libido is sexual attraction, can it be that players feel that way? They don’t have Eros or Storge, does that mean that they don’t love?
So do we love the way we want because we want or is it manipulated by the system? Now, I do not know what to believe. Could it be that all this time I have been manipulated to believe that love is the source of happiness? Now the only question I ask myself is, Do I know what love is?
-Maria Villavicencio
Today's Love can be defined in so many ways, depending who defines it. Whether it comes from Middle Eastern or Western culture, youth or elders, male or female, or simply you or me, that live in Miami; we all think different, perceive different, and consequently feel in a singular way. I believe that true love cannot have one definition. But I can definitely speak for myself. I consider that love is when you care and want the best for someone with no self interest. For example, (1)I love my mother, because I care for her and would never want nothing bad for her. (That would be my definition of Love to Family or Relatives, which may also apply to friend love), (2) I love my partner, because I care for this person, and I feel intense admiration and also sexual desire. ( I would consider this Love to Boyfriend/Girlfriend). I think that compassionate love is the one that will make a relationship last, because its the one with no interest. Passionate love, will only last till passion is there.
-Estefa Pinares
The media always capitalizes on the emotions of the public. They create an appeal to emotions to promote consumerism. Like the panic of the H1N1 virus would be broadcast on the news followed by a commercial on how little it cost to get the shot at a local pharmaceutical. Though this is true, I do not believe that people love as a result of capitalism. I think that we love the way we love because we want to, but the way we act out that love is controlled by the market. An example of this is buying a bouquet of flowers and heart-shaped candies on Valentines day, which is a true commercial holiday, to show that you care for a person.
So capitalism and love are related, but capitalism does not cause the feeling of love just the way we act on it.
-Jazmin Sepulveda
There is a good deal of validity in the argument that we love the way we do because of our society's mandates. But on the other hand, I personally have a thin line that I won't cross regardless of whatever magazine ad or Hollywood actor tells me to. That is to say if the corporate conspiracy du jour dictates that true love means marrying someone under 100 lbs, I will be in no hurry to scour the 24 hour gyms in search of a fitness crazed soul-mate. Maybe a part of society with weaker mental integrity is swayed easier by notions of whatever makes money for the machine. Also, it is absolutely plausible to love and respect someone at the same time it just depends on the circumstance. There are relationships rooted in convenience and etc, which is hard to perceive as mutually respectful, but then there are also some which less output is expected in terms of possessions and therefore it is easier to love selflessly and with respect.
-Tony Castineyra
Love could be a fabricated emotion that has its own meaning within our thoughts; not two definitions of love could be the same. Love can be measured, observed, and manipulated in many ways one could use thoughts as a variable, but in the end it is the person experiencing it only that can decide whether or not it is destructive to their persona and that of the person they affect.
People in general DO tend to be self destructive in any manner. For example, there could be many times when a woman would rather be with a jerk thinking they can change something that was designed to be as it already is, so they go through the torture of their emotions (also known as the emotional roller coaster). Instead of being with someone who'd be sweet and nurturing they go for what they “cannot have.” To continue with this idea, there are some women who tend to like guys who are already in a relationship because of the confidence they exude or the wanting of something they can’t have excites them. Kids go through this too but in another manner such as toys.
Perhaps, love could be conceived as an envy wanting to be destroyed. In other words, we could learn to love for all the wrong reasons. Maybe this is why some marriages crash at mid life; because they have finally come to terms and acceptance of what they really want. An example would be a woman marrying a man that has his flaws; major flaws that have been portrayed before and as she chooses to ignore that fact continues to entomb it in the subconscious of her mind and perhaps that is the major reason for divorce and isolation.
Yessica Ardila
Love is a state of mind just like no other. We are shown over our lifetime that there are different types of love and each of us experiences it differently. One thing we must take into account is how do we define love? If one goes to ask a certain number of individuals, how they define love, the answer would differ for all of them. Because of this we can’t put a label on love on anything else than it being an emotion that we feel in our head. I can say “I love my car” but I can also say “I love my mother”. The way we interpret the word “love” changes on the subject that we are directing our love too. Thus I believe no matter how much we study it, love is just a mix of emotions blended together and given a name to sum up those individual feelings.
Love to me is just a hallmark made emotion. It is used to keep the masses in check, and stimulate certain market. I "love" my girlfriend, but not the love that is beaten into our heads everyday. I feel a great friendship,trust, and security torwards my girlfriend. If there is a love i believe its a friendship between two individuals that feel happy with one another. The love were grown up to believe is find a woman, wine and dine her, make love to her, marry her, have a child with her, and then live life. Now a days its all which girl is the best looking, and best "merchandise". Sure us men are attracted to that, and thats naturally hardwired into us to procreate. For a life partner it takes more than looks. It takes understanding and friendship. Sadly nowadays most guys dont take the time to get to know a woman were forced into believing that having sex with a woman, not even making love to her is top priority. This can be seen in even music nowadays, and this new form of love is an image to sell.
-Oliver Reyes
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