People always argue over what is love. They say that teenagers are not in love, they haven't lived long enough to know love. They say that old married couples must be soulmates who were lucky to find each other. Everyone has an opinion of love, and love has no truth, it is like any good art, open to interpretation. That is why a certain passage from Anna Karenina comes to mind. It is about love, seemingly implying that everyone can feel love, we just will all feel it differently.
"I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
-from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Just because someone doesn't share the same kind of love you do, does not make theirs any less true or genuine. People fall in and out of love every day, it is a word that is constantly defined and refined. No one really knows what love is, some will tell you it is a chemical equation in the brain. Others will tell you it's something you feel deep in your soul. One belief does not make the other any less real for someone else. We can all feel love, just as we all can think, we will simply do it in different ways.
What a beautiful passage...I agree with what you've said here about love, how we all feel it differently but feel it nonetheless.
ReplyDeleteHi, Amanda! I love how you basically said that there is no set definition of love. I have never thought of different people loving in different ways, but that makes complete sense. It truly is like thinking, and we cannot all do that the same. People do look at each other differently (or similarly), but everyone, including one’s thoughts, is unique. I like the idea that there are so many different kinds of love, as Leo Tolstoy states. It is also kind of a frightening thought, because you can never fully know the depth, shallowness, etc. of a person’s love towards you. This could be like being in the dark about somebody’s thoughts, but something about still terrifies me a bit. I think it is knowing that each person “can feel love,” but simply love in their own way.
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