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"What IS this thing called…Love"?
My earliest recollections include, quite vividly, the use of the word love in relation to a myriad of subject matter. "I love my new outfit…. I love going to Sunday School…don’t you just love Perry Como"? "Mommy loves you"! "I love red roses…I love the smell of a new car". "I love the sunshine…I love the rain"….and on and on add infinitum. Jesus said.."love God; love your neighbor as you love yourself; love one another as I have loved you…………." We love our family one way and our friends another. We love our ‘best friends’ yet another way. And, there are those who love themselves more than anyone or anything you could imagine. Which brings me to the most elusive and yet the most sought after of loves. ………..’romantic love’! That is; the love of another, in a ‘sexual’ way. Can you be ‘in-love’ with someone and not feel sexually attracted to them? I think not. My first experience with sex was at a very young age, and was perpetrated by an older male cousin. I seem to remember, (as he was sodomizing me) him whispering in my ear…"I love you Rexie", just before he climaxed. So, in my mind….sex and love were synonymous. Then there are those who are…"love-sick", over the object of their desire. Who hasn’t experienced the awful pain of ‘lost-love’? Or worse yet, being in love with someone who doesn’t love you back. The song say’s.."the greatest thing you’ll ever learn, is to love and be loved in return". Ahhh yes………..loves sweet song, how delightful. From what I can gather, love is great when it’s good, but when it goes bad, it’s terrible! It seems that I hear a lot more about the love that has negative connotations, then the ones that have the more positive. As best I can determine, I have only been ‘in-love’ twice in my 62+ years….and, both times brought heartache more than pleasure. So, I don’t know if the ‘fantasy’ love you see depicted in the movies is much of a reality or not? Are we most ‘in-love’ when we are engaged in a hot sexual affair….and then that ‘love’ cools off as soon as we reach an orgasm? Perhaps having an intimate friend whom you can enjoy a pleasurably mutual sexual experience with is a good idea. I have seen, (and experienced it myself) a couple, who were having a steamy sexual encounter, go their separate ways when, after the "heat" cooled down, discovered that sex was all they had in common to begin with. My point is: I feel that the word ‘love’ has been maligned and misused far too often by those who didn’t have a clue as to what it really means. Hell, I am confused as to the true meaning of it myself. Maybe love is simply that, that makes us feel good….that, that we enjoy….that, that brings us pleasure. What else can you give away, and yet, end up possessing more then you started with? Maybe I can’t define love per say, but I do feel that we should use it wisely and not frivolously, for it could possibly be the most precious treasure we can own.
Rex D.
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