Day 05 - My Definition Of love - In Great Detail

[rdfreak]

When I'm aiming to define something, I have to pretend that I'm explaining it to an alien who has come down to earth and has no pre-conceived ideas about us, how we live or what it's like to feel emotions etc etc.
Love is an emotion. It's deep attraction for someone or something. People could say "I love my computer" implying mmost probably that they wouldn't know where they'd be without their computer. Loving an object would start out with just "liking" it I think. I can't think of any scenario at the moment where someone may just straight out fall in love with an object. Loving an object is simplistic. Loving another person isn't so and I shall move on to trying to define that.
When i was little, society (through my parents and relatives) taught me that a married couple is deeply in love, and it is always between a man and a woman; This is not necessarily true. The most common type of marriage is indeed between a man and a woman who needed to express their love in the best way they know how. This commitment is special indeed. Marriages are intended to last til death do them part.
However, modern times show that people can get married for convenience (anything except love) and couples have been known to separate more so today due to them not prefering to sort out any problems that may arise.
It has also been more recognized and fortunately more accepted today, that love and commitment doesn't always have to be between a man and a woman. There is a well-known cliche that says "love is blind" and it truly is. Love is indeed so strong and powerful that it isn't going to always follow the societal and even biblicle norm. Therefore, a woman may very easily fall in love with another woman, to so much of an extent, that they decide to become a couple. -- Likewise, men could fall in the same trap. -- People have got to realize that society has changed from the time of bible creation. It is OK and accepted that one has every right to be able to express his/her love to whoever he/she wants/needs. I for example, have no right to tell Jo that he can't fall in love with Jim; what's he gonna do about it? He may have to try his best to hide it from unaccepting me, but he can't run from it. You can't change what's in someone's head.
To be "In love" with "someone" doesn't necessarily mean "that someone" is going to love you back; in fact, in most cases, they won't. It is extremely rare, and therefore extremely special that you will fall in love with someone who is just as in love with you. Sure, relationships are verry common, but how hard is it to get there?
Now let's talk about a mother-child love. As I'm not a mother right now, I can not speak from experience but just through observation. It seems that in most cases, when a mother gives birth to a child, there is an immediate bond that extremely quickly turns to love (or maybe there's no transition period at all). It's like this unwritten or even unspoken contract that says that "I gave birth to X, therefore he/she is a part of me and it's my job to love and protect her not only til he/she is 18 but all their life." This love is so so powerful that nothing or no-one will ever get in the way of it.

I found this complex emotion hard to define, so if there's any mistakes or something that doesn't quite make sense, that's why.

Til Next Time, RdFreak