As such I realise that life is pretty unsafe. You do not know what happens to you, which catastrophe could hit you or your loved ones. Look at the news and you know what I am talking about.
Everything material can be snatched away from you in a wink.
What is really safe in our life, when it is not something going above earthly life? What do you experience as safe and secure?
2007-03-20 17:54:43 · 17 answers · asked by I love you too! 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
safer to love and be loved, obviously cause real love has not no materialistic issues in it.
2007-03-21 00:52:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Life is not "safe" anywhere, or at any time. While we certainly don't know the catastrophes that can hit us, we also don't know of the joys. Materialistic things, AND loved ones can be snatched away in a wink. So, I wonder--how would it be possible for me to choose anything? Every moment can, (CAN), be precarious. I just "lost" someone yesterday. Much loved. Yet, here I am, listening to the red winged blackbirds. Sweetie, I don't believe life or love can be a choice as to security. Besides, lliving is an inevitability (unless we choose to end it), the same as death is. SO! LIVE, LOVE & ENJOY.
Darn, what is that quote--"What matters it what went before or after. Now with myself I will begin & end." There's another I like even better, "Sing while the music's there, dance while it's in the air, love while the love is there, & let tomorrow be tomorrow." If I didn't TRULY believe in this, I'd have jumped off the deck & drowned myself in the lake long ago! I believe the very only "security" you will ever acheive, is INSIDE.Have a wonderful day!
2007-03-22 22:00:40 · answer #2 · answered by Valac Gypsy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Life, and living, is never safe. But that's the glory of it. It's uncertain, and always a learning experience. What is living without that experience? It's nothing, and you can't Live until you experience the uncertainties life throws at you. Imagine how bored you'd be if you knew how everything will go each day. Ho Hum, another day of certainty.
But instead, life is full of color. Some of life's lessons will include learning about loss. Some about sacrifice. And growing up in all that is called Maturity. If you live in a nut shell and never experience humanity, you might as well be dead because you'll never grow up, never mature, never expand your mind.
My safety and security is knowing some things in life are certain because I learned how to make them that way. They ain't much compared to asteroids hitting Earth or car crashes on a slippery highway, or murder in the neighbor's house next door, or all the crap you see and hear on the news each day. But they're what I have, my sanctuary like a good hot cup of Java when I get home from work and the un-conditional love my dog greets me with when I step through the door. But it's the little things in life that make the difference, and make living life in an uncertain world worth the struggle.
Life is what it is, you can't stop it. So stop worrying about catastrophies that can happen and start living your life for the things that feels good, love the people you love, and all the cool things in life you know and love that you can be sure of. And feel secure in the knowledge you have these things, if even for a short time. Better to love for a short time than not love to know what it's like.
2007-03-21 01:46:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
It is not a matter of which is safer. For both are fraught with danger. Life can have so many terrible events such as cancer, death, assaults or abuse. Love can also be tested by terrible events such as above.
Love involves risk. Would it be better to just exist and never truly live or love? It that would be safe: You could sit in a room and never leave or you risk it and enjoy what you can and love the best you can.
I waited a long time for someone to love and be loved by and it was worth the wait. However, I can say the path that led me to my partner did shaped who I am. Our experiences both good and bad shape us. It how we handle the good and the bad that effects how we live and love.
So, it is not safer to love or to live, but we must live to love and risk to feel alive.
2007-03-21 01:53:37 · answer #4 · answered by Bree 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's not safe to love or to live. But if you live in fear, then you live in a prison. Everything you do in life requires some measure of risk. That's what life is about. You can't be safe all the time or you don't have a chance to grow. Just like when you're a child & your parents try to protect you. "Don't venture far from the sidewalk." But as you get older, your world gets larger & more opportunities open up to you. You can go anywhere in the world. Some people let fear govern their whole lives. They remain sheltered because they need to feel safe. I like a certain amount of safety, security and stability, but I force myself to take risks even though it scares me because the most rewarding moments of my life were those where I took a risk & did something that scared me. Courage isn't the absence of fear. It's feeling the fear but plunging ahead in spite of it. If you fall in love, if you choose to live life to the fullest then you risk getting hurt. That's just how it works. You can't go your whole life never getting hurt or you'll never do anything.
2007-03-21 01:24:09 · answer #5 · answered by amp 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Dragon has spoken some amazing words of wisdom. I bow to her ! But I'll go ahead, and will put my .02 in.
Life has many dissatisfactions which we encounter, many call them sufferings, but does that mean we should throw the towel in and give up. As we slowly learn to focus on the inside of ourselves, looking within, to slowly dissolve our negative mental factors which cause our dissatisfactions/sufferings in life, we will learn how to unconditionally love all people, without having selfish, conditional attachments to them. Thus this will bring us a stable peace of mind, and true happiness.
Life is worth the risk to Love. It is as we learn to humbly Love unconditionally that we are truly able to receive the Love that we have always longed for.
Peace from a Buddhist.
2007-03-23 00:15:14 · answer #6 · answered by Thomas 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only thing I can think of as safe and secure is existence as a whole, but then there are infinite things that aren't safe or secure within existence, so that's a contradiction of sorts, isn't it?
I think the solution to whether or not to live, or love, or look for safety and security, is don't. Just live in the moment (taking heed of outcomes of your actions) and don't worry about it, you can't change it by worrying.
2007-03-21 01:24:15 · answer #7 · answered by Taliesin Pen Beirdd 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
As soon as there is life there is danger but if you accept entire responsibility for your actions, and live by the motto that your children are your responsiblity and if you discharge that responsibility to the best of your ability then that is all you can do about life, love and the whole catastrophe.
2007-03-21 01:47:22 · answer #8 · answered by Freddy F 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Don't get too attached to anything and remember that people who are important are much more critical than the things you own.
I reminded myself of this when my home was burned down my just after my 1st anniversary to my 1st husband. I reminded myself of this after my divorce and when I discovered one day after work that I was moved out of my home. The burglars even took the baby bed.
But, my baby was safe in my arms. As for love remember it is better to have lived and loved than never loved before and never burn any bridges (in other words, stay friends with your ex boyfriends, husband, friends, etc. because you never know hence you meet again.)
2007-03-21 01:05:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
nothing in life is safe and secure...at least not forever. the essence of life is that it changes. if you are looking for a stable place to stand forever, you're not going to find it. So why not take a chance, or every chance for that matter. if nothing else you will come out the wisest person alive. And if you were to go through life without love you are missing out of the greatest learning experience one can engage in. And if you refuse to love, or simply avoid love, you are destinded to live out most of you life wanting love, its part of being human.
Wouldn't loving be living? it takes guts to love says this guy.
to not love is to not experience, and life is just a combination of experiences
2007-03-21 04:22:44 · answer #10 · answered by Mark B 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
lets see if you love you get shot or stabbed and if you live you get hit by a drunk driver. i will have to get back to you on that, we will have to chat about it at the pearly gates because im undecided at this point .
2007-03-21 01:00:13 · answer #11 · answered by droopydawg001 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋