Sunday, October 18, 2009 |

All credit to this post goes to Koh Jia Ming. Many thanks to him for his very enlightening view on Love. :)

"Today, the fat man is going to talk about Love. And no, dearest readers, this isn't the typical rejected lover's bitter speech about the meaningless-ness of it all, with the tingle of how Love is just some chemical reaction and is a waste of sense and cents (millions of em.) Today's philosophical argument is on romantic Love.

No, today, the fat man is speaking deeper than the stereotype. So what is Love? Is it that abstract to the extent the grey area is all it consists of and nothing else matters? Is Love everything? Or nothing?

aime et perdu. People I've seen. people I've encountered. All who'd rather have loved once, and even if its a relationship that lasts a mere flicker of a flame, to them, its better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. But what does that actually mean? These days, where infatuation, the poison of the teenage mind, yet the beauty hanging the in balance, the sheer maturation it entails; is lovin' and crushin' on the same plateau.?

Another plateau (besides Jaclyn's amazingly flaaaaat face. ^^) to consider, is Plato. Yes yes, this good old man has expressed the possibility of a pure, pure pure love which is separate from progeny. Love beyond simple, animal 'responsibilities'. He lied, or he wasn't human. I'm sorry, but like economics, everything he described was ceteres paribus. But what, what we can do about this, is to be human. To feel. To experience Love as not a series of happiness, but appreciation. Embracing the truth for what it is: Love is something we can't touch, can't hear, its intangible. Its one of those things we can't describe.

[It's not about the fuzzy feeling. It's about giving, not receiving even when you know you might not get anything in return. Of course, its about caring for the person exceedingly.
- 2009. Tan, Rachel.]

Pheromones, the magnetic attraction, all the scholarly wipe, we see, the coldness of the edge of humanity. Love based on something is irrational as hormonal change? Love as part of growing up? Love as your coming of age? I know, Love cannot be weighed or judged, not in monetary value nor morality, but Love, pure as sunlight, is everything and nothing.

To the people who see love as two people together, as something that keeps us alive, shame on you. You have just become the solvent diluting something so pure. Because, because. Love is not an interaction, it is not a process. It is intangible. It is no feeling, it is a purpose. If we knew Love for what it was, then we've lived. And they're be nothing to live for anymore; the pursuit and cherish of it is what makes life life, rather than simply being breathing puppets.

To the people who know true Love, felt its presence enraging and intoxicating one's soul, for it is the purest happiness we are not prepared for, not any of us, you have lived.

So here's my thesis. feel free to challenge it, because this is no definition. (unless you we're completely not reading or completely daft, I've been saying Love is intangible the whole time.) Love is, not as simple as roses, chocolates, letters. contrary to popular belief, the thought does not count in Love, because Love does not exist. At all, but we must embrace its belief.

[I'm not sure, but I'm sure you'll recognize it when you see it. (Notice it's "when" not "if")
- 2009. Wong, Hazel.]

While I maintain my hardliner stance against all the fairy airy nonsense ala Disney; but Love, not the watered-down commercialized and media fantasized façade that stands in its absence now, for Love can only exist when we believe in it, deep inside our hearts minds and consciousness, for it is sole presence is like magic."

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