Definition: expressive of or appealing to sentiment, esp. the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia
Can sentiment be escaped? I do my best to not get cheery eyed when true love beats the odds and conquers all. I don't know true love, and I do not know if it exists. I know joy, sadness, pain, pleasure, and a few others. I feel joy when I gambol through the woods or watch my niece play. I feel sadness when I don't get a job I want or when a tragedy takes a life sooner than I expect. I feel pain when a Bald Eagle pinches my skin through a glove or I touch a hot pan. I feel pleasure when I drink a well-crafted beer or a friend massages my shoulders. These emotions are easy to describe in simple scenarios.
True love is not so easy to describe. What defines true love. Many epitaphs and stories attempt to answer this question. Theories like: there is only one soul mate for each of us and we will know them when we find them. I am more enthralled by the lust of Pan's flute than this illogical search. I have heard the lyrics of love songs. They have been flooding into my head since my first Hank Williams record. The Beatles wrote, "All you need is love, dadadada." I want love, but I don't need the cookie-cutter kind. Love is all around me. I can love without true love.
So why this concept of true love?
Yes, you can love without true love, but you will never feel true love. You are taking the literal meanings of the word here, I think, because you have yet to feel true love. True love is poetic, and truly indescribable until you feel it. You will know when the time comes. It doesn't necessarily mean you have found your soulmate either.
ReplyDeleteBe wary that all love isn't good love. Alas, love can make us do some crazy things. Le sigh*
Thanks P, good advice, and I know all about the crazy
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