LANGUAGE OF LOVE:
No subject
has been more written about in every language known in the world than love. And
yet love has eluded definition because it embraces a wide range of emotions,
which have little in common with each other. A mother’s love for her child, the
child’s love for his mother’s, a man’s love to god, his guru, and his country
or quite distinct from love that envelops men and women and craves for
consummation in physical union. It defies differences of age, race wealth,
learning, and look.
In love there is no calculation, no concern with social norms or
consequences. “Of all forms of caution.” “Caution in love is perhaps the most
fatal to the happiness”. Love can produce agony and ecstasy, fulfillment and
frustration, uncertainty, anguish and jealousy and dire hate. All these have
found expression in prose and poetry.
Everyone who has been in love has his own favorite quotations, URDU (the
most persuasive language of seduction). Having experienced it many times, like
most others one could pose a number of questions and then answering them.
·
What
exactly is this phenomenon called love?
·
How does
it emanate? And
·
How
dissolution? Each one of us has his or her own theory based on personal
experience and knowledge of others.
The basic cause, which
makes us seek the love of another person, is because we are extremely lonely.
This void inner loneliness can be described as inner solitude. The feeling of
being is all-alone in the world. At times we feel this solitude with great pain
feeling and it is almost like physical pain. It can come upon in suddenly and
without warning as in the early hours of the morning wail of a locomotive as it
speeds through the black of the night not knowing, where it has come from or
where it is going.
This inner solitude is
something of a paradox. At one time it is like an aching void bagging to be
filled by the warmth of affection of another, at others it becomes a walled
fortress with a notice bearing the warning. “Keep out” what happens when two
people meet can be best illustrated by depicting human beings as a series of
concentric circles, one inside the other. The inner most circle- may be
described as the circle of inner solitude. When two people meet and happen to
like each other, they invite each other to trespass towards this inner most circles
- to share this inner loneliness. The two sets of concentric circles begin to
overlap.
Love is complete only when
you are one without going inside of one of the each another love can not be
completed. The difference is only one is eager top go inside another is too
eager to get it inside.
In actual life this invitation to trespass is expressed in
exposure-baring of oneself-emotionally and physically. “Love desires that its secret be revealed.” If a mirror reflects
nothing what use it is?. The ideal equation is of course when the two
sets of circles completely over-lap when the integration between two human
beings is emotionally and physically complete. This ideal equation seldom takes
place as in the inner solitudes. Conflicts may arise, one may be irked by the
other’s mannerism, dress, body, odor, halitosis just anything. Then there arise
the desire to preserve one's inner solitude and the people concerned begin to
put up their defenses with the notice. “Thus far but no further.” They may even
expel the intruder outwards. To the extent to which a person allows another to
trespass towards his or her inner solitude, to that extend her or she in
emotionally involved or in love with the other. There is no such thing as total, all- consuming love. We are in
different stages of love with different people.
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