L.O.V.E
Love. What is Love? What is this emotion we can and cannot live without? Too much of it smothers us and too little of it deprives us. In the grammatical sense of the word Love means:-
a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person; a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection; sexual passion or desire; infused with or feeling deep affection or passion; sexual intercourse; copulation.
Can some of us, if not all, really say that we have felt true love in our lives, at least once? Can we say we have felt the pure, celestial and divine force of this powerful energy? Or can we say we have felt the malicious, malevolent and malign wrath of it?
Do we really know what Love truly is? Love is a powerful energy or an universal force. Like many human emotions it has many faces but it is THE one human emotion that remains mysterious. In ancient times, it has been associated with pagan figures like Aphrodite - the Greek Goddess of Love, Venus - the Roman Goddess of Love, Eros - the Greek God of Love. It has even been associated with Freja - the Goddess of Sexuality. Love and its many faces. In modern times, of new age and self-healing, Love is recognized as the one true positive energy to dispel all negativity. It is what will change your life for the better.
So you ask yourself, if Love has been depicted as something good and positive since ancient times, then that must be what it is. Well, if you ask me, I say Love is what you make of it. Love is a part of Nature. Like Nature it is neither good nor bad. It is both forgiving and punishing. It is like a gun. Imagine what happens when a gun falls in the hands of a murderer? And then imagine what happens when a gun is given to a man of righteousness. They use it for different reasons. The former uses it to kill and the latter uses it to protect.
I guess that is what Love is - both good and bad. True Love is love in its purest form. It heals, enriches and completes the human soul. Fatal Love is love in its blackest and darkest form. It suffocates, scars and leaves the human soul jaded. Sexual Love is love in its most selfish and manipulative form. It cheats, lies and feeds off the human soul. Unconditional Love is love in its true form. It nurtures, cares and loves another human soul for what lies within.
I am sure most of us have had our own personal experiences of sexual love. So let's leave that aside. True Love? I can proudly say I was once blessed enough to have that in my life and now that it is over, I do not dread it being over. Life has taught me a great deal. I have learnt to take the experiences in life and learn from them in a positive way. So instead of gloating about the past I am just grateful that I was able to feel true love once. Fatal Love. A face of love I have never been able to wholly understand. As incomprehensible as it may seem, it exists! The unfathomable depths of fatal love. One that's so black and dark!
As the saying goes, "If you truly love someone, sometimes you just have to let them go." And that was all I asked for. To be left alone. Having just been released from an emotionally and mentally straining relationship, I have learnt that Love isn't always what it seems to be.
Ah, yes, it seems, oh, so picture perfect and fairy-tale-like to have someone think you mean the world to them and to treat you like the king of their heart. But a love so intense and dramatic can only bring such fatal and malicious results. You'd think you can trust this person who claims to love you like there is no tomorrow. And that they would never do anything to ever ruin you. But what do you do when they threaten to ruin your life and take everything you have away from you? What do you do when you know you are being followed and watched every time? What do you do when the trust you placed in them is betrayed and they use that against you? What do you do when they make you the bad guy in the eyes of others?
Love, if anything has taught me to be stronger. What doesn't kill us, will only make us stronger.
