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Love, The Greatest Lie Ever Told?
by Dean Ward on 21 July 2005. Read 183 times.
I love you.
Supposedly the greatest feeling you are likely to experience.
Possibly the strongest emotion we will feel. The one that combines all our emotions together. Anger, aversion, courage, dejection, desire, despair, fear, hate, hope, sadness. . . And of course, love. More? Possibly. The feeling of sickness in your stomach. You not being able to eat for days. Security.
When you sit back and look around at today’s society, the problems on our doorsteps, not to mention the rest of the world, I think it’s safe to say this really could be a loveless world. Then look at the pain that recent events in the world has caused, the Tsunami, the 7/7 bomb attacks in London. Look at the grief and pain caused. Would you feel so grief stricken and upset if you didn’t feel love? To many people these were loved ones. Clearly. And to many more they were absolute strangers. Did your eyes not well up? Did you not even slightly choke? Yes you did. It’s so easy to dismiss the reality of love, while we are so sharp to distance ourselves from it’s reality. Love, so peaceful and harmonious, but we are petrified of it, as pain and grief are awful emotions.
Love is beyond any theory or scope because love doesn't follow any rule. While we will never understand true love, we will feel it. There isn't a more wonderful thing than feeling love. In comparison to sitting on a beach and watching a sunset. Every time you fall in love it is different and special, although you will get that same feeling. Sick in the stomach. We should try and disregard any media portrayal of what we should think love is. You know what it is you feel, and what it takes for you to feel it, why would anyone else try and tell you how you should be feeling, and what it takes to feel it? How many forms of love are out? What can you call each kind of love? You love your family? You love that special person?
I thought I knew
But I guess I didn’t
I believed you.
So, if love is to last forever, why do we fall out of love? Is it just another clichéd word? If you spent 3 years with someone, and you loved them so much, 2 years after you split up, are you right or wrong to love them still? We usually fall out of love with someone when they become a person different to the one that you fell in love with. You simply don’t lose that feeling. To quote from one of the most under rated love songs ever. Conflict 1988 - A Message To Who:
So if you ever think that life is just not worth living
If you doubt that you have anything left at all, worthy of truly giving
When life's not making any sense and you're filled with anger and resent
Remember love can conquer all, it is the start of state hates final fall
If people laugh because their mind is drifting, they're acting out the part
Of not holding any feelings or having any heart
Just smile in their face and then walk away for they will realise one day
As life moves on and they grow old they will realise they have been living the
way they're told
That their life has been a sacrifice to Government's systematic lies
That true friendship is inseparable and emotions if used responsibly
Will light the spark for all to see the start of our mass unity
Human natures winning answer, a true reflection of what is you and me