The American Definition of love as described in Dictionary.com is as follows: 1) An intense feeling of deep affection 2) A person or thing that one loves. But, in reality, our love is hard to define. We use this one word to describe our feelings for many things. If we stop and think about it, there are many levels and types of love: We love our spouse, our siblings, our kids, and our pets. Some of us also love the sound of rain when it hits our roofs on a warm summer night. We use this one word to explain how we feel toward each of these things, but those who know us, realize that what we are really saying is: Our spouse is both our life partner and romantic partner. We love our sibling as such, a sibling, someone with whom we trust,
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Conclusion: I believe the message the Greek want us to grasp is that we need to cultivate the different varieties of love and take advantage of their many sources. We should do more than pursue eros (romantic love). We need to also seek out and invest time with friends (phileo), and spend the night dancing (ludus), or even commit to do something unexpected for someone out of the ordinary, someone we’d least expect to do for (agape). We need to abandon the idea that those we love must be perfect. No one is perfect. Whether it is someone who’s being loved or someone giving love to someone else, we cannot expect that person to offer all the different kinds of love, all the time. By doing so, we risk the danger of tossing aside a partner who fails to live up to our expectations and desires. “It is impossible to love any human being simply ‘too much’, we may love the person too much in proportion to our love for God; but it is the smallness of our love for God, not the greatness of our love for man, that constitutes the inordinacy” (Lewis 122). All of us desire to be loved for our cleverness, beauty, generosity, fairness and usefulness. It is in giving our love freely to others, even those we least expect to, that we in turn receive love. In closing, God’s love (agape), is the most precious of all loves to be desired or obtained. This love, therefore, is a gift only attainable through
Conclusion: I believe the message the Greek want us to grasp is that we need to cultivate the different varieties of love and take advantage of their many sources. We should do more than pursue eros (romantic love). We need to also seek out and invest time with friends (phileo), and spend the night dancing (ludus), or even commit to do something unexpected for someone out of the ordinary, someone we’d least expect to do for (agape). We need to abandon the idea that those we love must be perfect. No one is perfect. Whether it is someone who’s being loved or someone giving love to someone else, we cannot expect that person to offer all the different kinds of love, all the time. By doing so, we risk the danger of tossing aside a partner who fails to live up to our expectations and desires. “It is impossible to love any human being simply ‘too much’, we may love the person too much in proportion to our love for God; but it is the smallness of our love for God, not the greatness of our love for man, that constitutes the inordinacy” (Lewis 122). All of us desire to be loved for our cleverness, beauty, generosity, fairness and usefulness. It is in giving our love freely to others, even those we least expect to, that we in turn receive love. In closing, God’s love (agape), is the most precious of all loves to be desired or obtained. This love, therefore, is a gift only attainable through