A thought occurred to me, when we say ‘true love’, we mean that it is unchanging right? The truth is constant, an unchanging reality. So true love means that it is something that will always always last.
“Do you believe in true love?”
Emotions are changeable so if love be an emotion, would there be no true love? What is love then, should there be true love? Is it more than a fleeting emotion..?
Is love acceptance despite or in spite of others’ weaknesses? I have always thought of love as a kind of caring, doing things for others that may be best for them and not for you. Is this kind of love true? However, a small fondness can turn into full-blown love, then it does not fit in the description of unchanging. Is that not true love then?
Maybe true love is a fantasy we cook up in our ideals of constancy. A wish that this moment could last forever. “If only this or that…”
Why is an unchanging state an ideal? Maybe the same reason why truth is beauty. And yet, does knowing that “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” defeat this truth? Truth is ideally an absolutely but it is inconsistent with being an ideal.
(Or maybe this is all just gibberish I’m thinking up.)
Truth1 is to mean it is an absolute. Truth2 is to refer to it as perfection. Some might say that an absolute is perfection but let us separate the meanings for the moment.
(Even if the meanings are separate, I’m not sure what else to say. Good night, I guess…)
True Love
A thought occurred to me, when we say ‘true love’, we mean that it is unchanging right? The truth is constant, an unchanging reality. So true love means that it is something that will always always last.
“Do you believe in true love?”
Emotions are changeable so if love be an emotion, would there be no true love? What is love then, should there be true love? Is it more than a fleeting emotion..?
Is love acceptance despite or in spite of others’ weaknesses? I have always thought of love as a kind of caring, doing things for others that may be best for them and not for you. Is this kind of love true? However, a small fondness can turn into full-blown love, then it does not fit in the description of unchanging. Is that not true love then?
Maybe true love is a fantasy we cook up in our ideals of constancy. A wish that this moment could last forever. “If only this or that…”
Why is an unchanging state an ideal? Maybe the same reason why truth is beauty. And yet, does knowing that “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” defeat this truth? Truth is ideally an absolutely but it is inconsistent with being an ideal.
(Or maybe this is all just gibberish I’m thinking up.)
Truth1 is to mean it is an absolute. Truth2 is to refer to it as perfection. Some might say that an absolute is perfection but let us separate the meanings for the moment.
(Even if the meanings are separate, I’m not sure what else to say. Good night, I guess…)
Tag: ‘By my troth!’
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