I sometimes think about the emotion love, the way it is now and the way it's portrayed to us, I wonder if our perception and feeling of love has changed over all these years, when I say us, I mean humanity in general. Was the feeling of love we feel now different from the feeling people felt say in the 1800's or maybe as recently as life in the sixties or seventies?
Is our feeling of love now pure in any sense? Love has become more of a physical feeling than a emotion. Our society has become quite modern, which is understandable as we keep evolving all the time but should our feelings evolve as well? What I really wonder is has sex become more important than love? What was sex before? Is it just the gratification of a human need or does it serve a higher purpose in life? From what I see, everyone has different answers to these questions, I guess it depends on our mentality and character and where we come from in life.
I think the term love< meant a lot more in life before than it does now, people use love for their convinience or to suit their purpose. Before when you said you love a person, it meant something, maybe choosing that person for your journey through life but now forever is a taboo word, forever doesn't exist anymore, I say why not? Is it all about meeting the right person? Who is this right person anyway whose going to come and rescue us? How do you actually judge who's the right person, our society is shallow, looks count. Everything starts with physical appearence but there should be more to it, you cannot know he/she is the right one till you spend a lot of time with that person. The hopeful say I will meet him/her someday, but don't we all think we are the right person for someone? Everlasting love always starts with friendship...
I know this is a very complicated issue with lots of variations depending on the person, I know both sides of the story, I knew when it was about physicality and when not. I'm not hypocritical, I've been there and done that but people change...
One of my friends honestly beleives "you should marry someone who loves you", she says "it doesn't matter what you feel because in the end no one can make you as happy as that person, looks are transitory, people who like a person just for the way they look are in for lust, they care more about their gratification than the other person's emotions". Does that sound right? Someone who loves you...how can anything sound more right?
