LOVE: NEVER BEEN IN LOVE

A beautiful woman recently told me that she never been in love....and I was thinking

There's this feeling we get for other people that's an exhilarating cocktail of passion, lust and desire for their company. Sometimes we have this feeling the moment we meet someone & sometimes we have this feeling for multiple people at the same time. This feeling compels us to do crazy things. Here in America clever marketers use this feeling to get us to spend a lot of money around this time of the year. The world calls this feeling love.

Now I prefer the old school definition of love, which is the ongoing act of sacrifice to something greater than oneself.


Think about the ongoing demanding acts of sacrifice involved when
• A mother or father gives up their life & career to raise their child
• A soldier gives up their life to defend their country
• A business person works 80 hours a week to build a company

Unless you've shown this intensity of commitment to another person you where romantically involved with don't cheapen the definition of love by saying that you were in love with them.

Now while modern day musicians and philosophers struggle to put a definition on romantic love. The defining philosophers and authors of the ages knew exactly what it was; that special feeling perpetuated for a life time between 2 people by the ongoing sacrifice of both partners to each other and to something greater than themselves