What's this crazy thing called "LOVE"?

Post by Angelina Jolie on Yahoo 360

I too had lots of confusion about this 'crazy little thing’ called 'love' when I was young; lots of misinterpretations, lots of misguided definitions from friends and folks and so on… All I needed was one solid definition that answers all questions about love, defines all its behavior, and tells where to find one; interestingly when I found the answer, it took me by my surprise (and I am sure that it might happen to you as well)!! :D

Here is the premises (or facts) first:

1. Love has only one definition and it applies to all individuals, all relationships and at all situations. Its characteristics are:

a) is patient and kind;

b) It is not jealous or conceited or proud;

c) is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable;

d) does not keep a record of wrongs;

e) is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth.

f) never gives up; meaning, it’s faith, hope, and patience never fail.

g) finally, it is eternal (transcends from earth through heaven)

2. It is common in society to call lots of specific behaviors, emotions and acts by the name 'love' for many good reasons; here are some:

a) Some acts don’t have rationale reason behind them, but they become immensely meaningful if they label these acts as 'love' such as grand-standing charity, peaceful war etc…

b) Institutions such as church, school, family etc., use certain unpopular emotions to bind it’s members, these emotions such as anger, jealously etc., cannot hold the members together except if they are called as 'love' for some weird reason!

c) Finally, certain behaviors are legitimized or made acceptable on moral grounds by deliberately substituting this word 'love' for example it’s a taboo to say "I am horny, come and fuck me" but the same thing if rephrased as "I am in love, come and make love to me" is considered legitimate and natural!! Hilarious!

And here is the discourse:

The first one, as you see, is divine, and we cannot see it’s full manifestation in the world. Although some traces are seen between parents and children, between siblings of same parent, between matured couples and in certain gifted soul like Angelina Jolie :D The truth is that infatuations of the teens, dating passions of the youth, and even marriage fever between the couples many times do not fall into this first rule.

The second one is the consequence of the ever growing war between the 'genes' and the 'memes'. These are tremendous forces that alter our life, our culture and what not!! Once we know what's happening behind the scenes it will be so interesting to see how rational, the reason behind every act falls in place like magic. For example, have you ever asked a question why a) only nice looking girls have dates, most of the ugly ones are left out for arranged marriages? On the contrary b) sloppy but with good-career men normally have young, good looking wives, same as ugly but career-smart women bag hunks? Former example (a) is the success story of a gene and the later one (b) is the success story of a meme! Interestingly, couples in both these categories call their mystical attraction to each other as 'love'!!

Mmm…feel a mild shock? Nevertheless, life is not as simple as 1,2,3… hence don't assume fact 1 and 2 are mutually exclusive… guess I have completely messed up your head, uh? It will be a long discourse if I start explaining this drama of 'love' in the context of gene and meme, so I thought I can just give the synopsis first and if you've not still run away, probably I will continue….L.O.L.