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Benyamin
Monterey Sea Otter
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I believe that the word love is possibly the most mis-defined word in all languages of our world. I was thinking of this today when I heard someone talking about his wife which he said he loved but from the words I could not detect any feelings of love.
There seems to be many kinds of love when you analyze the situation.
based on my experiences.
I believe that parental love for a child is the #1 love.
#2 I believe would have to be our reciprocal love for our parents (children seem to go through at least 3 stages of love for their parents, first a return of the unconditional love given them, then resentment for controlling them then later realization that they were right and that they loved you unconditionally)#3 is our love for animals that give us back the love we give them. very similar to the love we have for our children and without doubt can be substituted for #1 or #2)
#4 would be spouses love, but clearly that is more up and down than the previous 3 types. (perhaps I have just been unfortunate in that regard since all my statements are based on my own experience)
#5 would be our siblings, probably should be higher but we always seem to have much conflict with them and we are expected to love them without any attempt to discuss conflict (sorry, I realize that this may be just another example of my personal experience)
So what does the above mean? clearly in cases of #2 and #3 we are merely returning the love given us. and in case #1 (our strongest feeling of love) it could be just endorphins (research has shown that pictures of babies of any kind produce endorphins which stimulates the pleasure center of the brain, {just hold a baby orangutan for 1 minute and tell me that you haven't fallen in love. Which further confuses the meaning of love [which should not be so easily induced]} So then really what does love mean? Who knows, Oh by the way I just adopted a baby orangutan, LOL
As always my thoughts and words came as I was writing, so don't hold me to any of this (Aphion Moore (my EX) if you are reading this, I have always loved you.)
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05-30-2005 08:27 PM
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peregr!n
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Oliphaunt said this in post #2 :
Interesting, but I would say that you've underated true love/love for spouses. But then I also wonder whether you can actually rate different types of love as to which is most important. The love for our children is completely different to true love, but it can be just as powerful, as can be the love for our friends, which again is different. It seems to me that there are so many types of love, all of them powerful, all of them painful i unreciprocated , so they can't really be put in an order. |
Nice word!
I agree. Love is different for everyone, therefore no one person can define it's true meaning. Personally, I think love is what you make it out to be, not something defined by others.
(We're doing something about different kinds of love in Romeo and Juliet for our English coursework, so it's funny it was brought up!)
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05-30-2005 10:01 PM
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