The 'L' Word...

What is love? That’s an incredibly loaded question. It’s a question not to often asked but far too often answered. It’s a question that shapes us, changes us and most often influences us. We often find that love is something we want, but not necessarily something available. But what is love?

I’ve always been interested in love. I grew up in a household where I-love-you’s were more common than the reality of the words being spoken. In other words, I was very used to hearing it, but not as much feeling it. Its interesting that from an early age we were thought to say I love you to people close to us, people who are ‘deserving’ of our love. What I find interesting is not the ‘deserving’ part but the ‘undeserving’ people in our lives when it comes to love. I mean if we classify love as an action, or a willingness to serve whole-heartedly, than who are we not to love?

For a word that is so deeply complicated and heavily loaded, we to use it quite sparingly. It seems that the past few generations have lost track of the definition of many things. And as a result of the lack of definition when it comes to many things, the significance has been lost. And when something loses its significance, hasn’t it lost its value? Love is something to be cherished, and valued so much. But with it being the basis of our society for so long, having such an electronic, virtual, media run world, maybe we have lost the value of true love. Its significance has been boiled down to basic human desires and wants. That is where I think we went wrong. There’s still time for change but its got to happen fast. Or we might lose the message of love al together. That would be a sad, sad day.