2007-03-16 00:49:58 · 15 answers · asked by hippie girl 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.
After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.
Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.
I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.
I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.
If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.
I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.
Love and blessings
Your brother
don
2007-03-16 01:40:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection or profound oneness. Depending on context, love can have a wide variety of intended meanings. Romantic love is seen as a deep, ineffable feeling of intense and tender attraction shared in passionate or intimate attraction and intimate interpersonal and sexual relationships. Love can also be conceived of as Platonic love, religious love, familial love, and, more casually, great affection for anything considered strongly pleasurable, desirable, or preferred, including activities and foods. This diverse range of meanings in the singular word love is often contrasted with the plurality of Greek words for love, reflecting the concept's depth, versatility, and complexity.
2007-03-16 08:25:42 · answer #2 · answered by ieja 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love has different forms and can be found in the most unexpected places. Is the feeling that makes you think positive, be happy, be hope full and completed. Everyone has experienced some kind of love in life and if there is someone who still believes that love is not exist any more he probably closed his heart and didn't notice love when it found him. Really sad...
2007-03-16 07:58:44 · answer #3 · answered by M?r?? P 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is not only between a boy and a girl. It can be between a mother & child, teacher & student, brother & sister,etc. It takes birth in our heart when we start liking a person. It can be crushed only if the two people distrust each other. So always love everyone and do not let anyone distrust you.
2007-03-16 08:01:56 · answer #4 · answered by najeeha 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think love is an affection to someone from the heart, maybe natural or by what the person did for you or his or her character. though love is wild in explanation.
2007-03-16 07:58:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A chemical imbalance in the brain...
A hormonal trigger to try and trick us into having sex and procreating, overriding the logical processes designed to fulfill the -other- biological imperitive in the process: to stay alive.
2007-03-16 07:55:45 · answer #6 · answered by Nihilist Templar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, to some it is a feeling, an emotion. Others consider it to be another human addiction. And others think it is something needed to live.
You decide.
What does love mean to you?
2007-03-16 07:54:39 · answer #7 · answered by lile79 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You dont know what love is until you are in love. there is no way of describing when you know but if you are not 100% you are not in love. when you can say you are in love and have no doubts, that is love
2007-03-16 10:02:58 · answer #8 · answered by Lethal-Lizzle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is selfless. It is being concerned for the overall happiness and well-being of another person.
2007-03-16 11:56:05 · answer #9 · answered by mediahoney 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can't be defined, it can't be measured and everyone has their own opinions of what it is, so how can anyone truely say that they know what love is, we can only guess and go with how our inner individual self feels.
2007-03-16 07:57:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋