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Love and Life
There are more songs, poems, and thoughts on love than one person could likely sort in a lifetime. One might argue, it’s the only things humans write about. My definitions have changed over the years. I don’t have a concise, one line, magical formula like E=MC2. Wouldn’t it be nice if love was so easily encapsulated? My ideas of it has been significantly impacted by my study in counseling, providing therapy, which often comes with movie homework, but also, important to note, my present successes also come from mistakes I made with people through out all of life. Perhaps love isn’t definable, but rather it’s something negotiated to some degree. We almost all agree with what it is not. There is this idea that ‘I will know it when I see it,’ seems to vague. I suspect by the time we see it, it will have evaded us. We will be left dazed, ‘I should have acted better, fought harder, doubled down in my commitment…’ If we agree love is the most important aspect of life, how do we get about the process of loving if we lack clarity?
Does every generation ask ‘what is love?’ Is it something every person must learn to define?
The concept of four different kinds of love goes back to at least the Bible. There may be as many definitions for the English word love as there is for snow for Eskimos. The greater the wealth of a…
