We speak so often on Love
We try so hard to figure out what love is and talk about it in so many ways to gain a grasp on such an important topic.
We have a per'darn good instruction manual on the subject from a per'darn good source.
Let's review:
- Love suffers long
- Love is Kind
- Love envieth not
- Love vaunteth not itself
- Love is not puffed up
- Love does not behave unseemingly
- Love seeks not her own
- Love is not easily provoked
- Love doesn't think evil
- Love doesn't rejoice in iniquity
- Love rejoices in truth
- Love Bears all things
- Love believes all things
- Love hopes all things
- Love endures all things
- Love does not fail
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil:
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
Beareth all things, believeth all thing, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Charity never faileth: but whether there will be prophecies, they shall fall; whether there be tongues, they shall cease, whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
thirteenth chapter of 1 Corinthians, verses one through eight,
When it subsides
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Thoughts?
