Love life

Love is a very important factor in one's life even God established the usefulness of love. Love is a beautiful thing and we cannot do without it but why then does love turn sour these days?

When I was questioning a group of people on this topic people talked from different points of view and I tried to put all their ideas together and pick out the ones that relate with this topic. Wikipedia defines love as a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. Love is a great emotional attachment and it can be classified as positive and negative. In the world today the positive love is rare all we see is negative love that is why a father can rape his female daughter, a son can use his mother for ritual and different despicable characters in our society. Living a life that lacks love can lead to depression, and in some cases suicide.

There are six different forms of love identified by ancient Greek philosophersthese. These are:

• Familial love---- this is a form of love you get from your families e. g your father, mother, sisters, brothers e. t. c.

• Friendly love or platonic love(philia)----- this is a form of love you get from friends and colleagues at work.

• Romantic love(eros)----- this is the form you get from your lover either fiancee, fiance or spouse.

• Self-love(philautia)----- this is the love you have for yourself that feeling of satisfying yourself first.

• Guest love(xenia)-----the positive feeling for everyone you meet in the journey of life.

• Divine love(agape)------- this is the love God has for us.

There are other forms of love such as:

• Compassionate love

• Unrequited love

• Empty love

• Consummate love

• Infatuated love

• Courtly love amidst others.

All these forms of love has their places in our lives and we can't cheat them they will somehow find their way. A mother's love is different from a spouse's love while love for food is different from friend's love. I wonder what it means when people say I don't need love from anyone I can live my life myself it's a big lie we all need one form of love or the other to live a happy life. If you want to enjoy romantic love make sure it's with the right person, with person that won't abuse that precious gift. We might have been in a relationship that hurts but that doesn't mean love didn't exist, love does exist and it's real if only it is with the right person. We can only live at peace with our neighbours, friends and families if we let love leads and with this there won't be issues.

In conclusion

Love is the most important among all the laws, it is an important key to healthy living. Love directs in the right path, it makes way where there seems to be no way. Everything goes well when love is involved but things done outside love strive hard to survive. Let love leads then you will enjoy your life.

I hope you enjoy reading this and I will be expecting your reply in my comment box. Enjoyyy.