Love is a word used more or less to designate warm, positive feelings directed to individuals; it may encompass attachments to pets, institutions, things, activities, and ideas. Love usually implies intense feelings, but may it be restricted to feelings with strong sexual components. Most people would agree that love comes in different forms, corresponding to different levels in their own being. The most important distinction is that between general goodwill, familial devotion, and romantic attraction.
General goodwill (Agape) possesses the features that distinguish it from desire and longing for passion. It is characterized by friendship, understanding, and a concern for the welfare of others. The Bible advocates this type of love: "Love thy neighbour." This benevolent love should be shown to our fellow humans without the anticipation of any benefits. Examples of this love are doing charity work, volunteering time and services, such as, working in "soup kitchens" and helping to build/renovate homes for the poor. Also one can become a mentor or a "Big Brother" to a troubled child by giving guidance, helping with school assignments and also taking him/her on trips.
Another love is family devotion (Storge) which is a much stronger love than agape; it is an unconditional love for one's family. We tend to forgive, always patient, kind, and protective of close family members. An example of this, is a mother's love for her child. She may tend to be jealous if an aunt or a nurse wins too much the child's affection. But, if her love for the child is genuine, she is grateful for the kindness shown to the child, and the jealousy is inwardly controlled. Or she may be eager to shield him/her from every danger, but will surrender him/her despite her fears to the inevitable perils of growing into adulthood. A category of storge love is friendship which is (Philia) a platonic companionate love, a solid peaceful love between close friends.
What is Love? ... Yeah, exactly what is love? ... Instead of saying what love is to them, they express it by showing affection. ... Love can be what ever a person wants it to be. ... This is a good way to define what love can be and what it actually means in life. ...
One might ask, "How is love expressed? ... Every one is different and that is what makes love so unique. ... What makes a gift a language of love is the heart behind it. ... If everyone understood their love language, people would learn how to better love others. For every one is different and that is what makes love so unique to every one. ...
Love is the desire for the soul. ... Confused from what love really is, they immediately attract on each other. ... Lastly, Romeo and Juliet loved the idea of "being in love"" instead of truly loving the actual person. ... Just as lust is about focusing on the physical aspect of love, this act of over idealization focusing only on what the lover wants to see instead of what it actually is. It is clear that the type of "love"" that Romeo and Juliet are experiencing is nothing but lust and an illusion of what appears to be love. ...
Throughout history Love has been a topic of conversation. Plato's Symposium provides us with many different views and theories about Love. Socrates and his intellectual partners discuss what Love is and twist it's meaning in every possible way. ... After describing history of Love, he proposes that each person is half of a complete love relationship, a whole. ... Or, equally so, if a man came to a man to seek Love; if Love is not found they might be satisfied and go about their ways to the business of life. ...
In the poem "Sex Without Love ", Sharon Olds uses the simile "Beautiful as dancers, gliding over each other like ice skates over the ice " to paint a picture in the readers head of what the act of intercourse can be compared to. ... Sex with love leads to babys that are wanted. On the other hand sex without love can lead to unwanted babies that get given away. ... The figurative meaning of cardio could be love because the heart is a symbol of love. ... She also used reputation because it shows that what being said is important. ...
Since many people fall into and out of love it is difficult to define what love actually is. Rilke explains what an ideal love relationship is, different errors young people make, and ways to correct them. ... Yet the two people for sake of a relationship hold on to that single physical attraction, what they thought was love. ... He means that if the people jumped into the relationship in order for it to survive and thrive that they are, to understand that what they have is not love but only a building bock to work with. ... I believe in most of what Rilke has to say about love. ...
"(3) Ed and Terri's relationship did not include what most people call love. ... "I don't know what you'd call it, but I sure know you wouldn't call it love... Mel begins his monologue "what do any of us really know about love? ... What happened to that love?"... "(117) To Mel, the kind of love that the old couple shares is what he would deem real love. ...
This is a location of Love Canal. ... What the company didn't tell anyone is that they had dumped more than 21,000 tons or 42 million pounds of chemical waste into the canal, and that the landfill next door was being used as a dump for another 318 million pounds of chemical sludge. ... After what happened you might expect the site to be closed down permanently. But, like everything at Love Canal, what has actually happened defies common sense: the government has re-sold some of the houses on the site, and 70 families have moved back into the same homes that were evacuated in 1980 (more...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love takes place in one sitting, and is about two married couples drinking gin together, and having a talk about the nature of love. Both stories bring a hazy view as to what love actually means for these people. The characters in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love seem to have stronger feelings about the subject only when the alcohol seems to be kicking in. ... It is obvious that all the characters from both stories are a bit confused as to what real love is. ... Emma's view as to what love actually was seemed to very similar to Mel's...
