2/25/09:I found all of the discussion of love in the "Symposium" awakened a new awareness of the emotion. What is love? I believe that it is different for each of us on some level and yet universally the same ideology.
We love our pets but that doesn't extend their life expectancy to rival our own. Some of us even believe that we have found best friends or soul mates in our pets and yet we lose them so early and so often if you dare to love another pet after your initial heartbreak. This loss of love must be more common than some think if Dr. Sexson would ask a class to write about it and there are so many toughing responses and then there are the those of us who can't bare to write about it.
We love our family. But again, all the love in the world can't stop the reaper. Our hearts break again!
We find love in lovers and spouses and one more time...it could all be in vain.
What is this love thing? Why do so many write about it, talk about it, sing about it and dream about it ?
Why is such a painful thing be the center of philosophy, literature, history and art?
Because it's everything. Without it we have nothing.
Much Love,
Stacy