Love. It’s a word which was supposedly divine a few centuries ago. Today it’s more commercial than ever. I have often wondered, what is this ‘love’? What does one mean when one says that he/she loves you? I had a conversation on this recently with a friend and this is what we came up with.
Is physical attraction a factor for love? Would you say that you love a person just because he or she looks good? I don’t think so, physical attraction is just physical attraction. All male and female hormones are such that you are naturally attracted to the opposite gender. This in no way can be classified as true love. So that done away with, consider a person whom u supposedly love. That person meets with an accident. Now naturally you feel for that person. Now is that love? No way! It’s defined as sympathy, because if a dog on the street met with an accident any person with a heart in his soul would feel for the dog and help it. I’m sure that you would agree with me that just because you feel for a dog doesn’t mean that you love it and that you would devote the rest of your life for that dog. If there is anyone who would argue with me on this, I have nothing to say to you.
Love is just something commercial. People say that they are in love just because relationships are the trend right now. Having a boyfriend/girlfriend is quite equivalent to having a fashionable personal accessory. Some how love today isn’t just what love is supposed to be. Somehow as you think about it, love itself seems to be just a figment of one’s imagination; some self created relation just for namesake to cover up some ulterior motive of man. It seems to be something designed to make up for man’s selfish deeds. I wonder what exactly one desires to obtain when he/she says that they love someone. Does LOVE really exist???
