Friday, February 27, 2009

love and longing

What is more beautiful: love or the longing for love?

3 comments:

Blyss said...

Longing for love is painful and chips away at the heart. Longing for love from someone you already love... can kill with the desperation and sorrow it causes. To have longing for love for yourself, is it a request for permission to love yourself as well? To feel another's longing for love, it is a heart wrenching experiance, but is it soon forgotten, or forever remembered in one's own journey? Love may provide happiness, but it is one of the surest ways to invite hurt and suffering upon yourself. Is the struggle of both love and the longing for it beautiful? I think so. In my experiance they are some of the most beautiful things. But are they not also that which causes the most suffering? In my experiance I found that this is also true. I can not fathom the choosing of one or the other, having lived them both. Can you ask yourself this question, which of the two is more beautiful and ever get a right answer? Should it depend upon the person, their opinion, their mindset, their environment, experiances, and memories? Or should the question be, "Why are these things so beautiful when they bring upon us such suffering?" or maybe even how they can be considered beautiful at all, while they are so intimately intertwined with pain? Can pain be considered beautiful? Love, in my opinion you see, is such a thing that simply can not be understood. To answer you question honestly, if it was meant to be answered at all, I just don't know.

Vivake Pathak said...

That is quite a mature answer from a fourteen-year old. Are you sure you have not made any mistake while mentioning your age on your profile?

Blyss said...

Quite sure, sir. I have made a promise to myself to keep myself, and the person I show to the world, as truly "me" as possible. I don't want to feel like I can't mention my age when that is part of me too. A superficial part, but still one of the factors that may contribute to my views and situations in life. I also took precautions, my parents are well informed of my activity on the internet. And, to me, I have always felt that age doesn't matter. It may sound cliched, but there is so much that can be experienced that ranges beyond age (and other things). And just because someone is a certain number of years old, whether they be young or elderly, can't their mind be a whole other age entirely? If children can think and act like adults, maybe even sometimes more so than certain adults themselves, and adults can act as children are supposed to at times... well, you get my point. That's my view on the matter. But I appreciate your concern, thank you.