I Loved You On Purpose

Love should be born and live in fields, just like wild flowers. Love needs to be nurtured by water, with no concern about where and when the next rainfall will take place. Love needs to allow nature to take its course and trust in the sustenance that its surrounding provides. However, love refuses to take the easy path. Instead, love decides to live in kitchens alongside irritated cooks, dirty walls and screaming infants with impatient mothers. Clearly, love would be better off without concerns, growing in a field like an iris, patiently waiting for the next rainfall. However, love chooses to exist in chaotic environments filled with discontent and discord.

Especially within a society such as ours, which distorts love into lust, the ability to recognize and display the gift of love is essential. Selfish love, which is so inherent to humanity, inhibits God from acting in our lives, blinding us from experiencing His presence and eternal joy. It is so easy to look for pleasure and love in self satisfaction. However, the path to lasting happiness is not found through instant gratifications, but in the grueling practice of living a life full of

When one looks at romantic love, one would conclude that it is a social dyad that brings about certain responsibilities between two people in a relationship such as honesty, protection, openness and expressions of love. (William, 2008: 76). Contrasting with

The idea of universal love is one that is prevalent in the media. With the news filled with grim stories and horror many people are calling to the idea of loving everyone. Tensions are high concerning race relations, gender discrimination, and sexual orientation. Many in the general public are calling for humanity to embrace humanity. Many in the general public are asking “why we can’t just love one another”? Stephen T. Asma tackles this idea of love in his article published in the New York Times. Asma discusses two different ideas about universal love before offering his own take on the subject. Just as Asma states, universal love is a myth and closer personal relationships should be favored.

It is part of the human nature to love and be loved by a friend, a relative, or a partner.

bell hooks in “Love as the Practice of Freedom” explains thoroughly as to how love is the form to be liberated. Without any love society is blind and continues to practice systems of domination without being aware. However the community should look out for one another not just when a problem impacts an individual. Everyone must be aware of the systems of domination- imperialism,sexism,racism, and classism to create change. When radical love is comprehended it allows the destruction of oppression,exploitation and there is liberation

Love can be whatever one makes it out to be. From basic science to a complex philosophical or mystical idea. A person’s own unique experiences with love make it a concept that is so widely perceived and interpreted. Throughout her piece, Selections from Love 2.0 Barbara Fredrickson tries to broaden her audience’s understanding to a new idea of love. Overall, she claims that love is a biological need. The claim that longevity and quality of life might have lots to do with not only ‘clean air and nutritious food’ but also ‘your supply of love’ are accurate to a certain extent. A constant supply of love is needed for a better quality of life but it is not necessarily needed to live a long life. If the claim is taken to be true, then a weak supply of love would result in a person just existing and not living life to their fullest or connecting to other human beings; therefore, they would be incomplete without it.

One of my favorite quotes about love was said by Mahatma Gandhi: “Where there is love, there is life”. I find that quote very inspiring and it continues to help me maintain a positive mindset about life throughout any troubles and difficulties. When discussing the identity, love, and truth unit, I like to keep this quote in mind because it really makes me think about all of the stories in a much more meaningful way. In the book The Sister Pact, there are very serious and sensitive subjects and I’m very glad I can reflect back on this quote to find the deeper meaning of my book.

“‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all” (Miriam-Webster 253). This quote has been used for centuries as both persuasion in favor of loving and also as comfort in times of heartbreak and loss. However, is this statement completely true, or does it offer false hope to anguishing lovers? In fact, are the rules and costs of loving and being loved so great that in fact it is actually better to never have loved at all? When pondering these questions, one must first consider the rules of loving and being loved to determine the physical, emotional, and psychological costs they entail. In order to do so, one could use Andreas Capellanus’ The Art of Courtly Love as a guideline for the rules of love.

However, he learned how not to love before learning to love honestly and sincerely. When Laymon writes about his so-called “father figure” in his letter to Darnell and Mychal, he discusses how this man taught him to love himself by resenting white people and the hardships they brought upon blacks. He taught Laymon that physical and emotional abuse were signs of love and care. Above all, he expressed that black men had to love each other just because they shared the same skin tone and fought the same battles. However, after reading Darnell’s letter, Laymon realized that love should not be a forced emotion, or an emotion that stems from any sort of hatred or resentment for others. Laymon explains that his newfound definition of to love is to live, and anything else is

Firstly, the theme love has the potential to change people 's opinions towards each other is evident in the novel the help. The author of the novel, Kathryn Stockett has shown this theme through the character Skeeter who is a white person and her whole family believe that white people are better than black people and that black people should not have equal rights. However, the person who was paid to bring up Skeeter by her family was a black person named Constantine. Because Skeeter loved Constantine who was a black person, her views were different to the views of her family and her opinion towards black people 's rights was that they should be equal to the rights of people with white skin. The author teaches the reader that love has the potential to change others opinions towards each other through this example by showing how Skeeters love for her black caregiver Constantine changed her opinion towards black people because her family and society taught her to believe that white people are better than black people but Constantine believes that everyone should be treated equally regardless of their

While people are often able to identify when they feel the emotion love, love itself seems to defy definition.  In her polemic “Against Love”, Laura Kipnis argues that love cannot exist as traditional expressions of love such as marriage, monogamy, and mutuality.  However, in her argument, she defines love incorrectly by equating love to expressions of love. This definition lacks a component essential to understanding the abstract concept of love: emotion. Recognizing love as emotion helps us realize that, contrary to Kipnis’ argument love by nature transcends all expressions of love. Love is subjective and exists in any and all forms. In her argument that love cannot survive as conventional expressions of love, Kipnis ignores the nature of love as emotion in favor of equating love to different expressions of love. Love is a force which exists above expressions of love; a true understanding of love can only come from an assessment of how individuals, not societies, respond to the emotion.

   Love is one of the most confusing emotions that one can experience. It is simple yet complicated, unconditional but demanding, overused and unique. It is hard to explain what its means to feel love, to feel loved, or to be in love, however, there are aspects of love that are easily expressed. For example, ones unquestionable affection to the one they love, or the hardships and sacrifice that is endured for loved ones, and the underlying fact that once it is experienced it is not easily dismissed. The play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller describes love in just these ways, and, most of all, as the ultimate moral value that is the eternal bond that keeps people together. One can

What may not be so apparent is the purpose, or reason for the creative process: we plant seeds to get more seeds. In the process of accomplishing that purpose, we get plants, flowers, fruits and all of the products that make for an enjoyable life; even so, if the process of sowing seeds does not beget more seeds, it is not fulfilled, or fulfilling. This simple fact of nature provides an analogy for the creativity of the mind; and if thinking good thoughts does not beget more good thoughts, then we have not fulfilled the process. Simply put, the reason to think in a loving way is to be able to express and experience more loving thoughts. Certainly, in the process, there will be a growth in the number of one's friends, and an increase in the opportunity to enjoy being a lovely person; however, if loving thoughts do not result in a more loving consciousness, then one will be unfulfilled. We do not love others in order to gather more friends and loved ones, but to be more loving. Being loving is both the means and the end, the cause and the effect, of a loving consciousness, because one's consciousness is not only the cause, but also the effect, one has in

In M. Scott Peck’s work, The Road Less Traveled, he says “Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words” (81). He also seeks to define love as “The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's personal growth” (81). For Peck, he recognizes that the nature of love is so mysterious that a true satisfactory definition of love has yet to be created and suspects his own definition to be inadequate. He also recognizes that love is categorically vast in that it is divided into eros, philia, agape, and others.