So after about 50 years, Fidel Castro is out? Wow. Not what I expected to hear when I got up this morning.
Also not what I meant to blog about this AM, either. Lately have been pondering the nature of love quite a bit, and the myriad ways it can express itself, and why. Lately have wondered whether what I considered unconditional love is anything but.
There are a lot of people that I love, family and friends. Have I ever fallen in love? Pretty certain the answer to that is no. Or maybe I have, and I've been to dense to recognize it. Certainly not outside the realm of possibilities with me, but that annoys me even more.
So the questions I pose, how do you express love? How do you know when it's there?
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Love is easy.
It's physical attraction and relationships that are hard and confuse the issue.
I have loved and still love the people--both men and women--with whom I've ever had any deep connection that resulted in, at the very least, a profound and life changing friendship.
It's the notion that love is confined to within intimate relationships that gets me.
Maybe it's the subtlety that people often mention between loving someone and being in love with someone. Who knows? But love and relationship are certainly not one in the same.
As for demonstrating it? There are a lot of ways people show affection. I'd say that at the core, for me, there are a group of people that--should they need me--I'd do anything they asked without hesitation, asking why, or acting begrudgingly.
I trust them and I love them. And their having reasons is just as good as having reasons myself.
Despite having never called many of them boyfriend or girlfriend.
Pensive lately, aren't we, Ms. Peralta?
Hmmm..."falling in love". I love many people but I would say that any time I have "fallen in love" that it was really more of an infatuation type thing. Definitely physically based. I prefer plain old sneaks up on you and sticks around love.
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