love-repost
Posted on March 7, 2006
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A little flounder was swimming in a vast ocean,apparently looking for something of great importance.He stopped by asking everyonethe same question.Again and again,he got the same answer.After many unsatisfying attempts, he decided to visit the most wisest of all the fishes.Upon meeting the elder fish, the flounder asked "OH wise one,i have travelled far and wide , and i havent found the answer to my question.I hope you may be able to shed some light upon it.My question is as simple as this; Please, tell me where is the ocean??".Surprisingly, the older fish, did not laught at his blatant question.But was engrossed in deep thought.Worried was he not of the question itself,but of the poor and ignorant flounder.Finally,he answered,"My son,the ocean is up to you to find,no one can tell you where it is".The flounder scurried off, again looking for the "Ocean".
What else could be worse than looking for the ocean itself when one was in it.What else could be worse than looking for love,when we have it and when its all around us.Term "love" seems to be a vast one.And to me, it is one of the most obscene four letter word an unenlightened person could ever mention.People have a multitude of definition to what truly love is.Throughout history,people killed in the name of love, died in the name of love and even sold their souls to Old Nick himself in the name of Love.
What is love actually?To many, the question itself is enough to plunge a person into fits.Is love just a biochemical interaction between hormones and their receptors.Is it one of God’s masterpiece plan to keep the population in balance.Love seems to be a more advanced form of mating.Bugs and bees use pheromones to attract and mate.We humans,use love to do so.Not many would agree to this rather pessimistic view of the term "Love".
Or is love something more subtle and uplifting(Like what many define it to be).The very sound of it would send girls hearts aflutter and their eyelids flapping like butterfly wings ; ).
I do realise that love is altogether more wide than the boy - girl kind of love.For instance love between friends,parental…etc.Yet,many do not realise that these concepts have already been consigned to the rubbish dump that we call time.Charles Darwin has proven that theres a little bit of animality in each an every human being.Activities such as incest have been gaining wide support in the modern era.HOw can a person fall in love with is own mother.And how can a dad have intercourse with his daughter.Is it possible for a brother to fall in love with his sister.The borders of the definition of love, has already been increased by leaps and bounds again.Notwithstanding the fact that it is taboo and totally despised by culture and religion.Human beings( or shall I say…DEVELOPED ANIMALS)…tend to ‘dig’ the idea.It is even more absurd, when concepts such as the Oedipus Complex and Electra Complex(please search for the meaning in yahoo) is accepted as a natural part of development of the human being.So , what makes these peopel special from animals,when they show almost similar behavioural patterns like them…Like dogs.
What is it in love that makes it so mystical and magical.What is it in love that makes a persons heart actually and physically HURT when we fail in it.What is it in love that allows the capability of a person to move from the most devastated state to the highest of the heavens in a split second.It is so magical and at the same time so…damning.
Irrespective of whatever your view of love may be,I would suggest that you have a proper definition of what it is.For,sooner or later, there are very few who can differentiate between the vastness of its meanings.Wheter it is love or infatuation, lust, passion, admiration …etc…
NO matter what happens,true and undivided love has and always will be a fantastic driving force for Man.Wise people always say " Its best to let sleeping dogs lie".Yet,in sync with current issues, I personally think that it is wise for all of us to redefine what we really think of love and wake up the sleeping dog.The the most pathetic of all conditions is for a person the become the little flounder that I mentioned in the anectode at the beginning.Do not take love for granted.
As for me,God is love.I would have the definition in the reverse way, rather than in the direct way.
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