hai guys...some more opinion of 'what is love?' from the people around the world...
"The difficulty, seems to lie in the fact that society is bombarded by images of "love" (not!) in soaps, very silly films, trashy magazines and novels, etc. A lot of people are not too good at distinguishing what is and what isn't and take the contents of these publications as gospel. An example: Garish cover of said trashy magazine: "John and Jane married after a three-week whirlwind romance. (a whirlwind is a bad weather situation!). The couple say they are madly in love bla bla"
Now fast forward six months to same trashy magazine, same lurid headlines: "There is Jane sporting a black eye, and suing John not just for divorce but for assault."
For some reason people seem unable to make the connection between the whirlwind and the later lamentable situation. "
"As a daughter and as a mother - i believe that mother's love, is the purest that you will ever know! simply unconditional love! "
" The love of a good mother is the most amazing thing on earth. Sadly, not all mothers love their children."
"True friendship" must lie at the heart of "love". Not to mention respect"
" 'mother' is the ultimate relationship on earth which is unconditional...and i feel in the centuries to come, only 'mother' and 'friendship' are the relationships which will survive and remain for a long time...ultimately only 'friendship' as, i doubt, after few centuries, whether mothers will produce babies or incubators!"
"The difficulty, seems to lie in the fact that society is bombarded by images of "love" (not!) in soaps, very silly films, trashy magazines and novels, etc. A lot of people are not too good at distinguishing what is and what isn't and take the contents of these publications as gospel. An example: Garish cover of said trashy magazine: "John and Jane married after a three-week whirlwind romance. (a whirlwind is a bad weather situation!). The couple say they are madly in love bla bla"
Now fast forward six months to same trashy magazine, same lurid headlines: "There is Jane sporting a black eye, and suing John not just for divorce but for assault."
For some reason people seem unable to make the connection between the whirlwind and the later lamentable situation. "
"As a daughter and as a mother - i believe that mother's love, is the purest that you will ever know! simply unconditional love! "
" The love of a good mother is the most amazing thing on earth. Sadly, not all mothers love their children."
"True friendship" must lie at the heart of "love". Not to mention respect"
" 'mother' is the ultimate relationship on earth which is unconditional...and i feel in the centuries to come, only 'mother' and 'friendship' are the relationships which will survive and remain for a long time...ultimately only 'friendship' as, i doubt, after few centuries, whether mothers will produce babies or incubators!"
"Love is for each person whatever they determine it to be. what is love for one person is not necessarily the same thing for another person. we can love people and things"
"It seems to me that people 'fall in love' with the concept of Love!
Funny though, i 've read (somewhere) that in Japan there wasn't a word for Love until the late nineteenth century... they used to describe it as a 'human nature'...Those 'feelings' - described by the Japanese society as madness - should be avoided at all costs!
When western novels were introduced into Japan the translators struggled to get the right word for this strange concept - ‘love’.
Nowadays when you say to someone 'i love you' in Japanese, you say something like ‘suki desu’. The same word as if you said ‘I like … sushi’, or whatever. "
"The essence of love is feeling pleasure in another's well being, and pain in its harm. "
Funny though, i 've read (somewhere) that in Japan there wasn't a word for Love until the late nineteenth century... they used to describe it as a 'human nature'...Those 'feelings' - described by the Japanese society as madness - should be avoided at all costs!
When western novels were introduced into Japan the translators struggled to get the right word for this strange concept - ‘love’.
Nowadays when you say to someone 'i love you' in Japanese, you say something like ‘suki desu’. The same word as if you said ‘I like … sushi’, or whatever. "
"The essence of love is feeling pleasure in another's well being, and pain in its harm. "
"yes, true love looks for pleasure in others...love takes happiness to see other person happy. Yes...true love lives in giving and seeing others happy!...
yes...there are many mothers who leave the new born in the gutter, leave their children and run away with another man for their own happiness (where is unconditional love here?), kill their children etc. Anyway, they are minority...in any population such extremes do exist...whom we brand abnormal...so, let us accept that mothers' love is pure and unconditional!
when both spouses work for long hours they don't get time to socialise with them and children and so things go haywire. If they come back and start cleaning the house, clothes, utensils etc, they are already tired, and this monotonous work (such works do not have creativity in them and so, become boring one day however much you like them...rare cases do exist!) makes them to get angry, frustrated and the fight starts...love fades. For such couple, i think off loading the jobs is the only way...house keeping off loaded...they just work, come back, chit chat, romance and enjoy the life with wife and children. I think this is the best model to keep love flaming up at home.
nature has produced us with 6 needs as per Maslow...so, whether we like or not, work at home or office...we are un or sub consciously driven towards self actualisation. So, working is partially for earning our basics but totally towards self actualisation. Mothers at home self actualise through the self actualisation of their children and spouse. If a human being does not rise from one level to the other, he or she falls down to the next lower level need, where the urge for the need is higher than when the individual was dwelling in that need earlier before rising up.
yes, if good parenting is not there, the individual does not know the real meaning of love and lands up with images of love.
yes...there are many mothers who leave the new born in the gutter, leave their children and run away with another man for their own happiness (where is unconditional love here?), kill their children etc. Anyway, they are minority...in any population such extremes do exist...whom we brand abnormal...so, let us accept that mothers' love is pure and unconditional!
when both spouses work for long hours they don't get time to socialise with them and children and so things go haywire. If they come back and start cleaning the house, clothes, utensils etc, they are already tired, and this monotonous work (such works do not have creativity in them and so, become boring one day however much you like them...rare cases do exist!) makes them to get angry, frustrated and the fight starts...love fades. For such couple, i think off loading the jobs is the only way...house keeping off loaded...they just work, come back, chit chat, romance and enjoy the life with wife and children. I think this is the best model to keep love flaming up at home.
nature has produced us with 6 needs as per Maslow...so, whether we like or not, work at home or office...we are un or sub consciously driven towards self actualisation. So, working is partially for earning our basics but totally towards self actualisation. Mothers at home self actualise through the self actualisation of their children and spouse. If a human being does not rise from one level to the other, he or she falls down to the next lower level need, where the urge for the need is higher than when the individual was dwelling in that need earlier before rising up.
yes, if good parenting is not there, the individual does not know the real meaning of love and lands up with images of love.
bye all...keep rocking...hope your definition of love is changing now...all the best...
rams
