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Defining My Perception of Love
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<blockquote data-quote="Quid est Veritas?" data-source="post: 70333034" data-attributes="member: 385144"><p>Love denotes an action toward something. You cannot simply Love, you must love something or someone.</p><p></p><p>It is wanting or doing the best you can for someone. This will also entail feeling disappointed, humiliated and getting angry when the object of your love fails you or you fail it. It is a complicated relational state that has aspects of the full gamut of human emotion within itself. It will bring sadness and joy, pain and laughter, anger and forgiveness.</p><p>This can be easily seen in a marriage. I love my wife, but there are few people I can get angrier at or feel more disappointed if they fail me. Similarly, my wife jokingly says she would murder me if she wouldn't have missed me so much when I was gone. This is very much a part of love, expectation and thinking the best of your beloved. Often people will fail the high standards that love expects of others.</p><p></p><p>Similarly, I love my son. I feel immense pride in his basic accomplishments, feel happy when he laughs and go out of my way to entertain him. Yet I get angry at him if he does something dangerous, I have to scold him, I have to punish him. Yet these too are acts of Love. If I did not seek his best interest through punishing him sometimes, I cannot be said to love him.</p><p></p><p>The Greeks have four words that in English are conflated as Love: Eros or Romantic Love; Storge or Empathic Love; Philia or Friendship and Agape or Unconditional Love/Charity.</p><p>If you are interested in a religious explanation of Love and its various permutations, I highly recommend <em>The Four Loves </em>by CS Lewis.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quid est Veritas?, post: 70333034, member: 385144"] Love denotes an action toward something. You cannot simply Love, you must love something or someone. It is wanting or doing the best you can for someone. This will also entail feeling disappointed, humiliated and getting angry when the object of your love fails you or you fail it. It is a complicated relational state that has aspects of the full gamut of human emotion within itself. It will bring sadness and joy, pain and laughter, anger and forgiveness. This can be easily seen in a marriage. I love my wife, but there are few people I can get angrier at or feel more disappointed if they fail me. Similarly, my wife jokingly says she would murder me if she wouldn't have missed me so much when I was gone. This is very much a part of love, expectation and thinking the best of your beloved. Often people will fail the high standards that love expects of others. Similarly, I love my son. I feel immense pride in his basic accomplishments, feel happy when he laughs and go out of my way to entertain him. Yet I get angry at him if he does something dangerous, I have to scold him, I have to punish him. Yet these too are acts of Love. If I did not seek his best interest through punishing him sometimes, I cannot be said to love him. The Greeks have four words that in English are conflated as Love: Eros or Romantic Love; Storge or Empathic Love; Philia or Friendship and Agape or Unconditional Love/Charity. If you are interested in a religious explanation of Love and its various permutations, I highly recommend [I]The Four Loves [/I]by CS Lewis. [/QUOTE]
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