Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Love...?

Wanting to be with someone all the time, or at least, the most, when compared to the rest of the world?
"Need for company"?

The indescribable feeling towards a person that makes you feel like you are worth it?
"Ego gratification"?

Liking everything a person does/says, for no apparent reason, with no sight of one's own values or the larger scheme of things?
"A blind, fatal attraction"?

A justified desire for sex?
"Physical, sense gratification"?

A means to establish someone that is always there to fall back on, no matter who you are, what you do or what happens?
"Desire for security"?

A way to experience the reciprocation of all its implications - to be held and cared for, all the time?
"Attention need"?

Something abstract that allows you to declare it and then be your worst self with the other person, without any guilt or moral repercussions?
"License to take liberties"?

Or is it one of the following less "quantifiables"?

A joy in just "living", that gives you reason to do all the mundane things around you that you know make no sense by themselves?

An ardent and genuine admiration for a set of values that makes you rebuild your entire world from first principles, or reinforce your belief in the already existing system that you were despairing was dying?

A want to unconditionally shower your best, with no expectations of any reciprocation, not even an acknowledgment?

A filling of the void that makes you reach for who you could be, from who you are, setting you on the journey to discover the best within you?

The courage to dream of anything under the sun and the strength to take none of them materializing, with the wisdom that at the end of the day, the courage and the strength were all that mattered?

Is it just the entirety of all that you can possibly feel along the course of life, the sum total of the "best" and the "worst" that is you?