Love. What is love? My definition? A
magical connection between two beings. Now partly what I am saying can be
related to family, but this is mainly focusing on people not related to each other.
In today's society, love is still a mystery. How does someone know that they
are in love? Is it the rapid beating of the heart whenever the significant
other is close to them? Is it that magical feeling, almost as if time is
slowing down while gazing into their eyes? Is it the fact that you would give
your own life for that person? Love is crazy, why does it do these things to
us? Who knows, I'm only 17 years old after all.
Everyone wants to feel loved, but
sometimes "love" hurts. Some people may believe that they are in love
with someone, when they really aren't. Love is a definite feeling, there is no,
sort of, kind of, maybe involved in it. In the literature read over the past
couple of months, it has been observed that people are together because they
either have to or it seems like the best option at the time. It is very rare to
see "true love", especially in this society, with all these divorces
and scandals in marriage, but scandals have always existed. Why can't people
just marry the person they truly love and not hurt each other? In the writings
of "A Doll's House", "A Thousand Splendid Suns", and
"The Awakening" this uncertainty is displayed. The marriages all
these women share are abusive in different ways. They are disregarded
extremely, mainly because that's how things were back then, but it is still
unacceptable. Nora in "A Doll's House" is treated as a pet by her
husband, Mariam in "A Thousand Splendid Suns" is abused and taken
advantage of, and Edna from "The Awakening" was disregarded as if she
was nothing. Why were women treated this
way? Why didn't they ever marry the men they truly loved? Society and history
is a major influence, if the man was wealthy and seemed good, they got married.
They got married faster than you can say "you may kiss the bride".
The main question now is......Is love any better today? I'd say yes, in a way.
Since women have more rights and
freedom in today's society, things have improved a lot. Men have become more
considerate too, sure there are still horrible guys out there, but I think it
has improved. Maybe I'm just looking at this too positively because of my
morals, but people are really starting to show their individualism and what
beautiful things we can do as a human race. I could go on for days, months,
even years about the topic of love, because I feel so strongly about it, but
I'll wrap it up in a few of my beliefs. Love should be found and determined
over time, with care and consideration. Love is a beautiful thing, so take care
of it once you have it, never let it die. Everyone has someone out there for
them, you just have to be yourself, it is the only way you will be truly happy
and fall in "true love", which I believe actually exists.
Anyways that is that, I tried out a
new way of writing my blog, just typing the first thing that came to my mind. I
love talking about love, and I hope one day I'll meet that special person, get
married, have kids, and die old and happy. That is really all I want in life,
to experience love and raise my own children with the love of my life,
respecting her, laughing, smiling, telling her I love her every day.... it will
come....in time.
