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I had a nice discussion w.my class earlier on the definition of love. I had them dissect a passage from Captain Corelli's Mandolin:

 

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.

-- Captain Corelli's Mandolin

 

So, what is LOVE to you?

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What is love in its most profound sense?

 

Let's just simplify it and say you know it when you feel it.

Let's just simplify it and say you know it when you feel it.

 

Apposite, the irony of making that statement is that I drilled into my students that the passage is saying LOVE is NOT solely a feeling or emotion, but the outcome of shared experiences. I noticed lightbulbs went off in their heads.

Don't take hostages.....Trust....Let go..... if its meant to be it will be.....
...you get to me like old time religion did
in my heart when I was a kid
you're sweet gospel music to my ears
you know how to ease all my fears
and from my heart to yours all I can say is
hey baby hey baby hey baby hey


and as we go on through the deal I
I know that we won't always feel
real wonderful
life ain't like that

but I want to stay right by your side
check out the view enjoy the ride
together
with all our loved ones

I want to plant a little garden with you now
take care of a piece of the earth somehow
and tend it when we're old and gray and
try to straighten up and say, well,
I'm so glad to see you today
hey baby hey baby hey baby hey


The first time I heard this song, Hey Baby Hey by Greg Brown, I cried. This was profound love to me…
Being a little bit scared, a lot happy, and a love so deep to last a lifetime.

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