Life is that close, but that faraway to others and elusive to many. Meaning is obvious, but becomes obscuring. The beginning was sought, never lived to fruition, never ended, but the imagination of the past and thereafter became nostalgia. One thing that brought the being here to nurture its soul and enrich its perspective was LOVE. Anger isn’t happiness and isn’t a type of love. Hatred isn’t happiness and isn’t a type of love. Betrayal isn’t happiness and isn’t a type of love. Humans shall live to love. Love shall turn to anger, hate, and betrayal. But there is less to life without love. Seek love, find love, and keep it. Nurture thy love, cultivate it, and see it grow to blossom, flourish. If you do find love (of which it’s abundant in nature), multiply it. You shall find one or many or you shall make one or many. You’re born to be in love, to live in love, and go in love. But what is love, how do you find love, how do you know you are in love, how do you express love, how do you make love, how do you build love, how do you nurture love, and how do you grow and protect or preserve love? What does it mean to love somebody – really love somebody, not flesh of course or lust in return? When is it in the mind that comes to the conclusion or decision that one is in love? In love of who, why, how, where, and when? For what reasons are humans in love? Is love a thought, an idea, a sight, a taste, a smell, a sound, a feeling, a promise, a wish, or an abstract connection? Is love a reflection, an affection, an affinity, an attraction, an addiction, a prescription, or a disease? Is love a desire, want, or need?
Must humans be in love? Must a human need another human? Is love a conditionality, functionality, a responsibility, a goal, a mission, an accomplishment, or one’s purpose in life? Must humans be in love? Is love a necessary condition of life? Can there be life without love? But what is love, actually? Is it the feelings, sentiments, interest, friendliness, warmth, safety, security, or resource? Why are humans attracted to one another for love? But what type of love is one talking about? Is it sexual love, family love, nature’s love, divine love, material love, abstract love of things or goods and service, or love of ideas, concepts, subjects, objectives, philosophy, ideologies, creativity, inventions, innovations, or love for newness? Love one another was said. But what type of love was it said to represent? Isn’t the love of care, the love of compassion, empathy, sympathy, and humanity or the love for oneself over others or a love of a preferred group or party, or politics, or race, or gender over others? Is love a sport or game to be played to one’s advantage at the expense of others? Were you ever in love, have you been in love, or are you in love? Who are you in love with and why? Why that particular person in the humanity of persons? What stood out, what was the click, what was different, what was specific or special about that person or particular time in life? Are those feelings still the same? Have they changed and is there any Why? Has this love changed or adjusted and adapted to the current of times? To those in love, or in the process of love or aftermath of love, how does it feel, what happiness, what satisfaction, what fulfillment, what attainment, and what is the thereafter?
Who shall love again when love was betrayed? But how shall you live without love, without telling someone you love them, without having company or partner or spouse, without coming home to somebody or expecting somebody to call, or hoping for someone to be there in times of need? How can you not seek love when the world is in love with you or when there is someone out there no matter the circumstance, situation, or condition that has love for you? Who are humans without love and why will you not do everything to be loved by someone or something promising and hopeful? Live, love, leave – that’s the order of life – that we are born to live, to love, and to one day leave in the arms of love. Make yourself to be loved – love is good. Prepare yourself for love, make yourself open to love, immerse yourself in the will of love, and see what the happiness of love brings to you. Humans were born to be loved and no human being is loveless. Pretend thee not, thou needed love or wishes the blessings of love. The sweats of love nourishes the womb that begets life. Remember thee that life was a seed from love. Forget thee not to love. Sacrifice to care for love. Believe in the religion of love. The ingredients of life are coded in love. Love is the light of the heart, the inspiration of the mind, a blessing to the soul, the gene to be human, and the fountain of happiness and existence. You’re happy because you’re in love with somebody or something. You’re happier if love is reciprocated.
Love comes, love goes, love comes again and goes again to come again. Still, humans keep loving, and keep hoping or dreaming, aspiring, or wishing for better days or love ahead. If not there already, you shall be in the arms and warmth of true love – someone who cares, someone who really loves, someone that becomes the fountain of your beauty, satisfaction, and happiness. Those who give up on love don’t know the sweetness of love. Love is good if lived with consensual care for one another – proving that one is worthy of the other’s love. Love mustn’t be pain or hurt or abuse or exploitation of the other. Love means something more: it’s the humanity of the being, the tenderness of being, the positive future of being, the safety and security of being, the flourishment of being, and above all, the togetherness of being. Who knows what love is until they are actually in love. Love is an experience, an expression, and attaining – measured by those living it. Who knows love more than the person experiencing it? Love is true to those who are in love. It’s a romance of subjectivity, relativity, and perspective. But who is without love or doesn’t like to be loved, or willing to undergo the cycles, periods, or phases of love? Give love a Forgiven chance. Seek to make love well. Give love romance and artistic touch.
American Philosopher
Prince Israel Zaar
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