Please note: This article deals with feelings and emotions gentlemen so be aware k?!
😉 This is somewhat of a long article however, and I could be wrong, but this thing called 'love' is such a huge thing it deserves deep reflection and closer examination and subsequently a lot of words to describe it even fractionally! If you don't have the patience or desire to read through the whole article you probably don't know or care what love is or isn't! That's ok! No worries . . . I think I love you anyways! Lol! 🙂
Hey folks my name is Johnny. I'm a singer/songwriter, poet, and apparently a pretty messed up individual!! I'll be 60 years old this summer and I'm still trying to figure out this thing called love! Lol! But I do have a feverish and passionate relationship with TGOMU, "The God of My Understanding!!"TGOMU loves me just way I am but probably laughs or cries Himself silly at some of the stupid, childish, petulant, ignorant, and selfish things I do!? Hence, the subject of love.
Who am I to write about something so vast and complex as "LOVE" you ask? Well I'm certainly not an expert in the matter other than I've been willing to make more mistakes with MY "Notions of Love" than others! My dad and I have been trying to understand even just some of it's flavours! Aw but alas . . . it is seemingly not to be! So I ask . . .
What is love?
What is it really?
Is love a feeling or a fantasy?? There's that "F" word again guys . . . sorry about that! 🙂 But
love IS a feeling! Of course it is . . . everyone knows that right? And feelings are supposed to teach us something about ourselves right? The only thing I'm absolutely certain of when it comes to my
Notions of Love is,
"When you're in doubt . . . love's still hovering about"!
So? What is love? Is it patience mixed with tolerance? Is it a sunset mixed with a memory? Is it how a puppy dog reacts to seeing it's 'best friend'? Is it money? Is it power? Is it control over another person? What is love? Is it sex? Is it a hug? Is it a song of warm feelings for another person, place or thing? Is it a poem expressing heartfelt emotions for another person, place or thing? What is love? Is it living up to another person's expectations? Is it respect mixed with tolerance and patience and kindness and gentleness layered with understanding and acceptance of another person's flaws and fallibilities? Is it a hug?
Is making love solely to do with sex? A very wise woman once told me that making love is a celebration of intimacy with your lover! XXAw-hah!XX I believe that you are making love, creating love, manufacturing love while you're laughing and having a warm fuzzy feeling time with a friend or your children or your neighbour! It is only our context of the phrase "making love" that has limited our scope of that phrase! Making love, literally means to create love where there wasn't love before!! Hmmm? Maybe we're getting closer here now to getting a little glimpse of what love is and what love isn't! I could be wrong, but i think, like the man said in his song, "Love is a Many Splendored Thing"!
Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
Love is a many splendored thing
It's the April rose that only grows in the early Spring
Love is nature's way of giving a reason to be living
The golden crown that makes a man a king
Once on a high and windy hill, In the morning mist
Two lovers kissed and the world stood still
Then your fingers touched my silent heart and taught it how to sing
Yes, true love's a many splendored thing
What is love? Is it respect? Yes! Is it tolerance? Yes! Is it patience and understanding? Yes! Love IS a many splendored thing!
And even when we're dazed and confused about how we feel in regards to the love we 'think' we feel for another human being we need to remember what that other fella sang in his song, " Cause when you're in doubt love's still hovering about . . .When In Doubt, Hug!"
I recently re-posted a thing about love on FB