Hello everyone, and welcome to the next installment of Making my Mark on the World! In this post, I share some thoughts on love. As always, it is raw and real.
Today’s post is a brief one, but will talk about an extremely important topic. Love. I will likely have a lot more on this topic, so I am titling it part I.
I wanted to share a beautiful quote on love. I just recently discovered this quote:
“Love is a partnership of two unique people who bring out the very best in each other, and who know that even though they are wonderful as individuals, they are even better together.”
Barbra Cage
This is amazing! It perfectly captures the essence of a relationship, and also highlights that people are wonderful as individuals. However, this is where if I had to nitpick, I would say that there is a difference between love and romantic relationships.
The quote perfectly sums up what I am looking for in a relationship, but there are many different forms of love. I am still learning about them. I used to only view love in terms of family and partnerships. For example, I never used to think of friendship as a form of love. However, recently a friend from my MBA studies said that she loved me. It is not a romantic love, she is dating. It is friendship love, and I believe it to be sincere.
I suppose one could argue that a friendship is a partnership, and satisfies the quote above. In some ways it does. Yet, when the words love and partnership are used together it certainly evokes an image of a romantic relationship (at least for me).
With all of that being said, love is extremely important. In my opinion, love is also thrown around too casually sometimes. As an example, a few years back, I traveled to Europe with a group of people that I had not met. There was plenty of partying (and drinking) on this trip. I bonded well with the people in my group. It was overall a fantastic experience. Anyhow, I mention this because I remember several times when people were drunk commenting that they loved each other (including that they loved me). Of course alcohol might amplify true feelings. However, this still felt like a bit much to me. As someone who generally takes things literally, this brought up a lot of emotions for me. I want more love in my life, but there is a difference between love and like. I also could not help but note the differences in emotions drinking versus sober. I’m not faulting anyone for getting tipsy and throwing around love, that is not my intention. More so, I am just stating that love is powerful and that it is best not to dilute the meaning of love. Maybe I am overthinking things, but what else is new 😊.
I wanted to write this post for a few reasons. One, is that the quote by Barbara Cage is beautiful. It immediately resonated with me, and I wanted to share it in case it resonates with you as well. I also find the different forms of love interesting, it is yet another in a myriad of topics that I want to learn more about. I would also say that every person is worthy of love. Further, I am curious as to everyone’s thoughts on love. More specifically, do you love your friends? Do you think that the word love is sometimes thrown around too loosely? Let me know in the comment section below if you have any thoughts.
As always thank you for reading, I am grateful that you are here! I will end by reiterating that everyone is worthy of love, and by wishing a peaceful and joyful weekend to all.