Love's Iconic Desire

Love in Rehabilitation Series : I

' God is love,' says a Indic expression. ' Love has nothing to do with someone else ' says an Oriental literature. ' Love will teach you all things,' says a middle-eastern poem. ' Love makes the world go round,' says a popular Western expression.

 

There are many such views we borrow on to speak of love. However at this point in the 21^st century we appear to have heard them all. In that case it is necessary for us to bring into a new definition our experiences of love. Such is our present reliance on attitudes about the issue.

 

As a start we may refer to the attitude of friends these days that a person needs to love themselves before they can come to love another. Such a love for oneself draws from the beauty of creation itself where it may have exclaimed that it has built the perfect life form … man.

 

We therefore amend our previous suggestion about loving ourselves first and change it to the realization of what we are in the human specie … as a physical form perfect. It is a discovery that leads to a wonder about the human passions, the mind and its reliance on a plan for life.

 

Its in coming into contact with the fact that through the age of the apes, man has been consistently growing in strength in the knowledge of himself. This has added to our confidence regarding ourselves. Our studies, where they have led us, point to the incredible instrument which is the human brain. As an evolutionary achievement it may someday surpass all other faculties of the human condition with distinction.

 

This realization is everything today. It guides us on our measures for a comfortable and secure life. It answers the query ' how much is enough? ' It responds with a standard for a person to live a middle class life with the usual amenities. The rest … where this may involve glory, a world empire, amassing wealth, fame and a name for ourselves … these it guides us on when to fold and when to run away.

 

 We have to engage the bull of competitive activity and deal with the love of iconic physical activity. Until we learn this in our thoughts, we cannot understand our own efficiency and perfection. In that we can't come to understand love nor bring its expression to another.