Saturday, April 18, 2009
How do you measure love? How different is love from any other positive feeling, let's say happiness? Is there a difference between love and happiness? What or how do you feel when someone says he/she loves you a lot, be it your mom/dad/friend/girlfriend/boyfriend/a child, what do you really feel? Happy? Then how different is it from happiness? I sat and gave it a thought, as to what could really be the difference, what could it be that when people say how much they love each other? what could it really be? Do they mean they are happy with each other? Satisfied with each other? Does everything have to end up being happiness? No? Let's just assume that you're sad, searching for a reason to smile, when someone who you deeply care for, or let's say you 'love' comes and tells you how much she/he loves you, do you feel like crying or smiling? When we say we have 'tears of Happiness', what does it mean? Why do we have to cry when we're happy? Is it love? Isn't the state of Contentment a deep sense of happiness where you need not smile fully, feel the love and feel good about yourself? If love is a bundle of Happiness(mostly), care, contentment, and other positive feelings, why aren't we taught love in schools, colleges and at homes? Why do we hesitate to express our love to the person of the same sex? Is it a bad omen? Do we have to be emotionally attracted to a person of different sex compulsorily? Why is 'love' the ultimate feeling? Why can't everyone love each other? Is it just our 'ego' stopping us ? Aren't we just being slaves to the society? Ofcourse you need not love everyone, people with various intentions exist, who can eat you up while you're sharing a dinner with them, but once we choose a person to be happy with, why does love become a barrier? Am I going to give anything more when I love someone? Am I going 'out of the way' when I love someone ? Am I going to be associated with negative emotions n feelings when I'm in love with someone? Aren't these emotions n feelings we've seen in people and then followed their trend? What holds us back? Why can't we give our 100% ? Why? The big question mark still remains? How is Love different? Why is it the 'mistaken' feeling?
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3 comments:
hello..
You have a very presentable way of expressing.. there is no mask and there is no duality in the sense of inquiry.. but i guess u do have some "interests" in knowing what u want to know...
I think a portion of the answer to this one is there in my most recent post..
but true.. your questions have covered most, but not all of the 6 distortions of Love..try to read narada bhakti sutra..
regards
ram
hmm...great stuff...such high thinking involved in what u have said...such deep introspection..one post i can keep getting back to :)
I'm at a loss...'coz I realized tat d questions U've posed r either those I've thot of or those I haven't but in both cases, I've no answers...love is so misunderstood in our society n it's sad, V're never taught love n always discouraged fm expressin it...so many rules n regulations 2 whom 2 love...n honestly, I never got thinkin as 2 whether love was diff fm happiness or not so tat's sum food 4 thot :)
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