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From: Hawthorne Galas
Category: Philosophy of Love
Date: 15 Nov 2000
We human beings find ourselves in the world of bodies in the realm of this material universe. And for a quite number of years, many great intellectual thinkers have tried their best to relentlessly tackle the issue on love. Out of their eagerness to give us a concrete definition and description of love, they have exhausted all their mental ability inorder to beautifully explain love. Thus nowadays there are a lot of descriptions on love. some believe that love is a mystery. Even Marcel adheres the contention that love is a mystery. The reason is no human mind can really fathom the depth of love, because love is bounded in the very being of man, and since Man is a mystery himself.So therefore love is also a mystery.In short, none of the given descriptions can perfectly expound the issue of love.Nobody quenched the thirst of man's longing to know the end all and be all of love.Nonetheless,I as a person still am courageous to express my acumen regarding the issue of love.Out of my own conviction,in this activity,I will give my personal assessment on love.First, based on my own understanding, love is the most potent force behind sublime deeds.It is the most potent force because when the person is in the state of love,everything in life becomes easy and manageable.Life is easy to live day by day,moment by moment because the person is caught up in the state of spiritual exaltation.All his disposition and actions are driven by the force that motivates him to do amidst the difficulty and problem in life.So, the description that I think appropriate to describe love is, Love is an energy.It is a tremendous creative and rcreative power. When it is better known,reverently treated and wisely applied, it can substantially help in freeing mankind from it's gravest diseass on war, crime, insanity,misery,and selfishness. The concrete example is the existing political crisis.If only politicians have the heart to help the constituents,we would not have political turmoil but rather a happy people.For love allows people to share their potentialities,and strength and accept weaknesses in our individual life.Therefore, the best word that I think can define what love is,that love is an act of sharing what we have,accepting what we don't have,and have the courage to work it out for the purpose of growing oneself and the lives of other people become happy.