Love is such a small word, but is soo complex a subject because there are soo many miscomprehensions surrounding it.
Wars have been thought over love, crimes performed in the name of love, songs have been sung. So many relationships turn into a routine were the words i love you are blurted out without any thought; the meaning lost, it can so easily become a ritual.
So what is love? soo many definitions exist out there, some romantic some primal. So many people confuse lust and passion with love. that feeling of adrenaline you feel when you meet someone new? is that love? is love really all you need? its such an abused word i find myself often reluctant to use it.
To me the definition of love isnt that complex – love is derriving pleasure from pleasing another – it is being willing to give, to connect. it is being a a true freind, a soulmate, being able to completely trust with your partner and rely on them.
Love is even more than that, although i think that my defininion isnt bad from a technical standpoint. Its a feeling – almost undefinable – a bond. Sometimes people touch you in ways that its hard to explain – and i touched on this when i blogged on friendship – sometimes people touch your lives the mark they leave on your heart will never dissapear, like that first footprint on the moon – changing it forever. love is that feeling of relief you get when you hold the one you care for in your arms.
it has very little to do with physical prescence – love transcends that and Love is not always a good thing though – for some love can burn and hurt intensely – the pain of not being able to be with the one you love is a cruel unrelenting pain.
As i look up at the stars i smile with a serene happiness – remembering all those people i have met in life, some who are still here, and some who are gone forever – i can feel where people have touched my soul, and made me the person i am today.
I think its worth sometimes stopping, feeling, and thinking when you whisper the words “i love you” … exactly what they mean.
Its fair to say sometimes I get a bit carried away with work. Its almost 9pm now and I have a serious decision to make – do I power up my virtual machines and finish preparing my presentation for tomorrow or do I go into the office really early to finish it – I have a presentation to give someone in finland at 9am and I really want to be at least nearly fnished by then.
Ok I am now ranked 135032 of 8964965 players in angry birds – I have every golden egg, and 3 stars in every level but still haven’t hit the high score achievement in the game centre… Maybe that’s next, maybe instead I will get a life. Naa. Travel this morning is a bitch – there’s some race going on in central Stockholm so they cancelled my bus and all the extra time I made coming in early has been lost. I’m now heading to Ropesten to get a bus from there. It’s going to be a busy day at work and I’ve not been blogging so much recently because I am not allowed to talk about most of what I have been doing; theres a veil of secrecy that has to around my day to day operations for now! …even this has taken two days to post!!
