PHENOMENON OF LOVE

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What is love? What is not love? What are the elements of love and what are not? Is love really an illusion? Is love really real? Is love romance? Does love bring peace? How could a word with with no exact definition bag us and affect us to the point of ruining our selves or in the same manner could live us to higher sense of self actualization? The easiest questions are the hardest to answer. It is a basic principle in communication that we should never use words that we do not fully understand. But our society nowadays are obsessed with it? Have they understood it already or they have thought they had. This phenomenon had been the subject of Philosophical inquiry over the years but do we really understand its essence and nature?

Is love really an emotion being defined by an organ located just on the meeting place of our skull and spinal cord? Then if love is a sensation the moment we lost our ability to feel love is gone. If it is an emotion it is therefore nothing but a product of sensation that we could just disregard? Then it is also possible that love can be just mere illusion. We feel pain and we understand what is pain. We feel being tickled and we understand what it is. 

What is love? For me it is the attitude of doing good. It is the attitude of sharing yourself with others. It is the decision of giving others your entitlement that you crave for yourself. It is anchored on goodness and respect. It is giving freedom. 

It is a decision of extending your self towards other. It protects it nourishes, it develops it breaks limits.

Self is the starting point of love. But it does not end there. Includes others. Golden rule is love. Good things are not done because of it will be paid in return. There is no payment for love. There is just self extending towards others aspiring goodness. 

Pride is not self love. It is the attitude of love that was not channeled to others. It intoxicates an individual. It corrupts him/her. It is violent. It destroys. It conquers and imprisons. Like the dead sea there is no life in it. Just pure salinity. 

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