Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Logic in Love?

Such an interesting word. Why would they indicate such a complex pattern of physiology with a four-letter term while simple understandings are demonstrated through words such as 'electroencephalograph'? It is quite a wonder. Maybe people don't understand what they are talking about when they say this word.

Quite often it is said, "hate is a strong word." But I ask you, have you ever heard anyone say that love is a strong word? They are opposites on the spectrum, so they must be of equal value from the 'middle', or not hating, not loving. So what does this really mean, how can we grasp logically the understanding of love?

The common definition of love is the liking of two bodies. But it is through such that real effects take place. It somehow changes the way people look and think about things, through chemical reactions of some sort. Such a four-lettered word can easily change, for benefit or for destruction, the sensibility of an individual.

Without, does sensibility yet still differ? Doesn't the mind crave for this chemical reaction through the process of released hormones? And doesn't that affect the ways we feel, think, and react?

From a logical standpoint, love makes no sense. Emotions are not logical. But they are what make us human. As Spock points out in Star Trek, "Nowhere am I so desperately needed as among a shipload of illogical humans." Love, although can be explained through logic, can not be understood by logic. And if we do not learn to accept this part of ourselves, it will be to our ultimate demise.

Love, as itself, cannot harm anything, but make it better only; however, when it charges at negative things, like hate or dislike, it is not always for the betterment of people. It can be destructive if it is unwanted by an individual and hated by another, but it could be ecstasy and a ceremony of great joining if accepted.

So then, if we want a world of love and no regret for loving, maybe we aught to stop hating love and people who love, and embrace them as our own. But when we have become deceased, all of us, will it really matter? Will people five hundred years after our expiration date really care if we hated someone or loved them to death? No. So then, what is the point of love?

Love has a single point. The pleasure that it gives to two individuals. And if two are in love, who is anyone to say it is wrong! It is their lives, their decisions! And those who mock will probably go back to their hate filled lives with their eyes closed not really getting this. What a bowl of nonsense it is, hating love! If there was no hate to counter love, there would be no negativeness through showing the emotion, just pure joy throughout the world. In the words of John Lennon, "Imagine all the people, living life in peace ... you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you will join us, and the world will be as one." And, if only we could all love and be as one with each other.

Love? It's just a word. But in that word is a dream. A dream of a perfect society. And I hope that one day we could all be as one benefit under that name.

2 comments:

  1. Your definition of love is, in my opinion, mistaken. You assume love is a neccesarily desireing force, rather than a commitment. "God is Love" makes no sense if your definition is used.

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  2. I love that note Ezra; great and from the heart. I know that God IS love, but it does not mean that we treat love right.

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