Valentines Day reminds us of the love we have in our lives. There are so many different types of love in this world and a lot of people look for different things when they look for love. There are some people who are in love with all sorts of things, which I realized while watching the show Taboo the other day. There were two guys who were in love with their life sized dolls, which weird for me, makes perfect sense to them.
Personally I have different kinds of love with the different live people in my life. I love my siblings and parents and friends and boyfriend, and all of those kinds of love are different kinds….sow hat is love?
Can people love inanimate objects like cars and beds and dolls? Is attachment the same thing as love? You see little kids who wont let go of their blankets or teddy bears for anything, but is that because they love them or they just represent security to them?
What is love? Even the dictionary isn’t really sure, or at least acknowledges the fact that there are all different kinds of love and that at least in the English language we use the word for everything that we like a lot. Looking on dictionary.com I was amazed at all of the different definitions that are acknowledge in the dictionary for the word “love”. I thought it was just the way we use it in our culture, but actually, it seems to have worked it’s way into our dictionaries as well. Does a word lose its meaning when it has so many uses? I know it still means something to me when my boyfriend says that he loves me, but I think that’s because we don’t say it in every conversation. For a lot of people the words “I love you” have replaced “goodbye” when talking on the phone. I think that the word means something more when it’s not used all the time….but then what about all of the uses it has in the English language?
How can the love of one person make you feel like a whole person? How can a simple feeling make your life feel like it has a purpose and a reason to keep going? I don’t know how to explain how much this feeling of what I believe to be true love has affected me, other than to say it has completed me, it has made me whole, and I am terrified of losing the other half…the other person is what makes this feeling so powerful and I’m so scared that I’m going to lose out in the end. I know I will continuing living and working….but I highly doubt that I could ever feel this kind of passion again. I think this is a once in a life time experience and I hope we are smart enough to hang on to it and not let it slip through out fingers.
It’s easy to get caught up in the chaos and craziness of life; work, responsibilities; it’s easy to lose track of the things that really matter to you. Love, family, friends, the beauty in nature. Everyone treasures something different that they might get distracted from at one point or another. Maybe it’s someone’s acting career or music….it’s easy to get caught up in the To Do List and forget about the things that make you really passionate, that make you light up and enjoy life.
Some people only need someone they love to appreciate their life, some people need to see a beautiful sun set, or hear their favorite song….No matter what each of us considers beautiful, I think it’s important that we don’t get caught up in all of the “have to’s” of life and forget about the things that we want to have around us. It’s important to appreciate the beauty that surrounds us in life. I think that without beauty, life isn’t worth living. Nothing left to make you passionate, nothing to remind you of why you are alive.
