Until Death Do Us Part...

Love. It's such a small four letter word, with so many connotations that it's an almost impossible concept to grasp. What is love really? Is it just chemicals going off in our brains, or is it something that comes from our soul? My own personal beliefs say that it's a little bit of both. Love starts with infatuation, which may just be hormones firing off in your brain, but true, actual, unconditional love stems from the soul. When two people meet there are the hormones and other sorts of chemicals involved (they do call it chemical attraction after all), but when two souls meet it's another matter. True, life-long love comes when two souls meet. When your soul meets another it's an experience that can't be accurately put into words. But I will try my best. Meeting someone else on a spirit to spirit level is like unveiling a whole new path that you never knew existed. Afterwards you feel uplifted and so filled with contentedness and joy that it feels like you may explode from it. When two souls meet and truly connect it's worth whatever you had to do to get there. That person will be a life-long friend, or at least someone you never forget. That's where life-long, "I want to grow old and die with you" love originates from; the meeting of souls. I'm not saying that you're going to fall madly in love with every person you meet this way, but when you do fall madly in love, when it's true, that's where it will originate. Love is a complicated thing, something that can't be defined in the amount of time I have to write this blog. It's always seemed odd to me that we only have one word for love in the English language. Eskimos have over 200 words for snow, and yet we have one for love. This almost seems like a wrong-doing since there are so many different forms of love. There's the love you have for your parents, for your siblings, for your extended family, your spouse, your children, your friends, and the list goes on. Why only have one word to describe so many different things? That would be like only having one word to describe the entirety of the human body. The very idea of such a thing seems foolish and silly. What is it about love that makes us want to examine and ponder it to extremes? The answer to this question is quite simple: love is one of the most, if not the most powerful emotion we will ever experience in our lifetimes. Love can make a sane person do rather insane things, it has the power to build you up and the power to tear you to ribbons. It's arguably one of the most powerful forces in our universe, and it's something that each and every one of us experience on a day-to-day basis. Don't take these daily experiences for granted, cherish each and every moment you have will the people you love.