L[Oh!]VE

I wrote this about 4 years ago and found it among my things. I was reminded of it as I watched this:



Enjoy!


I believe many of us, at certain point in our lives, if not many, have asked ourselves what love really is. What is that crazy feeling that we, not necessarily look for, but when we finally feel it, we don’t want to let it go. Is that irresistible desire of being irresistibly desired, for which we can never really be entirely happy. We get into it, knowing that love is like a candle with a very small wick. It burns quickly, but we are still willing to burn it while it lasts.

We fall in love, knowing that we are probably too young, too busy, or simply too immature to really control it and know how to handle it, and despite the fact that we are conscious of this, we still do it! We still fall for it entirely, genuinely, innocently, and completely vulnerably…!! Why do we do this? Is it Masochism? Do human beings like to hurt? Or is it that Love is just so amazingly beautiful and satisfying that we are willing to go through the trouble and hurt… Just to get a glimpse of that astounding feeling…??

Love is completely imperceptible and frustrating… There is always one “a” who loves, and “b” who lets himself or herself be loved… And don’t get me wrong, “b” also loves, but just not as deeply and blindly as “a” does. Sometimes we are lucky to let ourselves be loved, we are “b”, but there are those times when we love… and love… and love…
Well… frustrating yeah, but completely irrelevant… Given that the important thing when it comes to love is TO LOVE, rather than to be loved… To enjoy those moments that are never long enough, but are always so intense and profound. To feel and understand that something other than ourselves is real! In fact, what else is love but rejoicing in the fact that another person acts, lives, and experiences otherwise than we do…? By loving and taking the risk, we are giving ourselves the gift of LOVE; the gift of that self enlarging experience… In fact, when we love deeply in one direction we make ourselves more loving in all others… This takes courage… To love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return, to just give... That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt, do we...? Yet… We do…

So this analysis of love comes to what? Nothing… Since love is such a pure, genuine, and indisputable concept that the only analysis we can give it is the one we understand when we are living under that second person’s skin… When ‘a’ and ‘b’ decide to become ‘c’… When the fusion of those two beings concludes… Then… Love can be, rather than analyzed or understood, it can be felt…

Love is everything it's cracked up to be… It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for, and for those of you who have no idea of what I’m talking about, the only thing I can really say without sounding like ‘the wiz of love’ is that you can only learn to love by loving… So give it a try… What can you lose but some pounds and a couple of tears…