{"id":302,"date":"2007-02-07T12:21:08","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T12:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/166.62.41.2\/~holaamericanews\/2007\/02\/07\/the-importance-of-love\/"},"modified":"2022-07-16T11:50:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T16:50:22","slug":"the-importance-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/the-importance-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Several years ago when my son was small he asked me one day \u201cMom, what is it to be in love?\u201d I was shocked with this question, I had to think fast because he was waiting for a response or at least give something that would satisfy and the only thing that I thought about was \u201cOhhh, it\u2019s the $64,000 question.\u201d And he left satisfied to go play after an \u201cAhh!\u201d Up to this day I am still looking for a definition to answer that question and frankly I still haven\u2019t found it, the only thing I know<\/p>

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for sure is that it\u2019s a feeling and that it\u2019s very closely related with love. It\u2019s so many different things and it has been written about a lot. Samir M. La\u00e2bi wrote \u201cGood love, crazy love, divine love, human love, poets love, chivalry love, courted love, carnal love, faithful love, and paternal love; support love and prostituted love; blinded love, and self love. Every one of these fits into the history of mankind shaken up by feelings\u201d.
\nMany say that love is blind, but the reality is always the same and what is, is. However a human being can interpret a situation one way or another and adjust it according to the reality that suits them best. Here\u2019s an example. This is a story used by the psychotherapist Jorge Bucay, it\u2019s called \u201cThe Look of Love\u201d. It talks about a king that was in love with Sabrina, a girl who was humble and who was his last wife. One afternoon while the king was hunting a messenger came with news that Sabrina\u2019s mother was very ill. Even though it was forbidden to use the kings carriage for personal use; an action that the offender normally paid with his life, Sabrina used the carriage to get to her mother. When the king returned he quickly heard about the incident, to which the king said \u201cIsn\u2019t she wonderful? She didn\u2019t care about risking her life to take care of her mother! On a different occasion while Sabrina was in the garden, the king arrived and after she greeted him she gave a bite to the last peach that she had in her basket. \u201cThey look good,\u201d said the king, \u201cThey are,\u201d said Sabrina and taking his hand she placed the bitten peach in his hand. \u201cHow she loves me!\u201d commented the king, \u201cShe gave up her own pleasure to give me the last peach in the basket. Isn\u2019t she fantastic?\u201d\u00a0 After several years, and not knowing why, the love and passion left the king\u2019s heart, and so he sat and talked to his best friend about Sabrina, \u201cShe never acted like a queen. Did she not defy my authority by using my carriage? Actually now that I think about it, I remember that one day she gave me a piece of bitten fruit to eat.\u201d
\nIt is said that you can\u2019t govern your heart, but it\u2019s like one of my friend says, \u201cIf someone with an anomaly wanted something more than a simple friendship, you\u2019re not going to go out with that person right away, you\u2019re going to think about it.\u201d Definitely people love with the mind first and then with the heart. Meanwhile, if it where possible to choose who to fall in love with, it wouldn\u2019t be love, it\u2019d be pity or something like that, but not love. Gibran Jalil Gibr\u00e1n used to say \u201cMany women borrow a man\u2019s heart, but few are able to possess them,\u201d and that \u201cIf you want to possess, you can\u2019t demand,\u201d this is the same for men. Love is a very important aspect in any human life, and is to the benefit of humanity that led Blaise Pascal to say \u201cThe cause of love is small and its affects are surprising, such a small thing moves the land and the world itself\u201d.\u00a0 In the family setting you learn the very important concept, which marks the life of an individual. Children know a lot when it comes to love. When a 5 year old kid was asked what he thought about love, his response was \u201cLove is my dad and my mom, and only they know it.\u201d Fortunately we have big help; if we meditate a little about the first and great commandment that says \u201cYou shall love God above everything\u201d, making it very clear, because in it you don\u2019t find that we are first to love our husband or wife, parents, our children or siblings, boyfriend or girlfriend, friends, our car, our house, etc. Plus add to that the second commandment that \u201cLove your neighbor as yourself\u201d which means that after God is yourself and after that everyone else. If in our homes we show and practice love in this order and the correct way, then we will understand the words of our Lord, in what is called \u2018golden rule\u2019, \u201cDo unto others as you\u2019d have them do on to you\u201d. Maybe we can\u2019t change the whole world, but we can create a better, healthier environment for everyone around us. A French doctor and writer wrote, \u201cLove has two laws: the first is to love others; the second: eliminate that which doesn\u2019t allow others to love us.\u201d Lastly, we can guide ourselves by what the Bible says about \u201cThe Privilege of Love\u201d \u201cLove is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at injustices, but rejoices in the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love never ends\u2026\u201d
\nReal love builds, grows, it is the motor that impulses us every day and doesn\u2019t permit pride. Wrath and other negative feelings intrude into our relationships, as couples or family. It is said that when pride screams it is love that silences it and when misery enters through the door, love goes out the window.
\nAn anonymous writer said \u201cI love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

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