In the discussion about love, we tried to come up with a definition for what love is. Some of you say that love is a feeling of deep compassion/care for someone or that love is when you are willing to give yourself to someone. However, we soon found out that these definitions doesn't apply to the other things that we love such as food, places, or possessions.
As the discussion progress, one of you made a very good point that we uses the word "love" too often. That's why it is hard to come up with a definition that works. Every time that you do or found something you liked, you may use the word "love" instead of "like" out of habit or because you want to emphasize how much you like it. People would say things like, "I love my new phone" when they got a new phone or "This food is great, I love it" when they tasted something they liked. Over time people have used the word love in so many different context that the word "love" today have multiple definitions.
Since the "love" is being used so often today, I think that it is easier if we define love in a broader sense. I think that love is anything that we enjoy spending our time with. This definition can be used to define love correctly in most of the context that we use. When someone say they love something, we can define that the person enjoy spending their time: eating [food], visiting [place], or hanging out with [person].
That's all I have, thank you for reading and feel free to comment whether you agree or disagree.
I don’t agree with your views about love but I completely understand what you are saying. I think it is very hard to actually come up with a concrete definition. Also people take love just like other things and put it into what they believe a word is. That doesn’t necessarily make their own definition wrong, but I think in this specific case there is only a few concepts that can really define love.
ReplyDeleteI strongly believe love is overused. I think saying I love an object is out on context. We all do it, it has became something that helps other people understand how you feel about that specific object. I think what really defines if a person loves something, is if they are willing to give their life for it. If you are not willing to give up your life for an object or food you don’t love it. You might have a strong desire but that is not love. There is also passionate, as much I say I love pole-vaulting I would never give up my life for it., but the passion I feel is almost as strong as a love. Mothers loving their children that is love , in some scenarios giving up their lives to make sure their children get the best.
In conclusion, if we keep intending love to be a love for an object then we need to change the definition of love. Many words loose their connotation over the years maybe this is just simply one of them. Maybe in society we need to come up with another word for love.
The reason that people misuse the word love is because we are ignorant to the real meaning. We all have done, we say we love with out really meaning it. We give give love a very simple connotation and not the respect it should have. Is not a sin by saying it but I agree that with this post.
ReplyDeleteI do not disagree with your view on how we often interchange the word “love” and the word “like”. I believe that the reason why we do that is because we have desensitized ourselves from the actual meaning of love. Simply, the word “love” has suffered an identity change. Personally I do not find anything wrong with the evolution of that word. My thinking is the more the merrier. I do not believe on putting restrictions on what or whom we love. Love should not only be limited to human beings in fact love should be spread high and wide in everything that we do.
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