by Jennifer Preece

Created on: September 18, 2010

Ah, that thought provoking, endlessly entertaining concept of love. It's extremely basic, no matter how magical you'd like to think it is, or how unexplainable it seems to be, I assure you, it can be explained. Do note that I say "explained" and not "defined".

Let's start from a broad over view. People come from all walks of life therefore having different perspectives, and why would their view on love be any different? We tend to group things into categories to make them more simplistic, easy to understand, but love seems to be in a world of it's own because, well, everyone has their own definition of what "real" love is.

Now hang with me cause I know most people won't get this next part, but attempt to open your mind for a moment. The general population is incapable of seeing past themselves. Their own insecurities, their own "sickness", their own version of what perfect is, creates a filter for all stimuli to pass through. But its okay! You are who you are, and everyone seems to have some sort of issue dwelling in their being. Beyond everyone's filter there lies pure energy. This, I do believe, is as basic as it gets. This is where we can look at love, without the complexities of the everyday grind, the stresses, the hardships. Here, you can have "real" love for anyone, not just a spouse or a child of your own, because everyone here is the same as the next person.

You take this very basic energy and add genetic attractiveness, hobbies and interests formed from childhood conditioning and experiencing life, societal view on specific aspects of what makes one happy, and tons of other nonsense, and there you have the formula as to why love is so complicated and misunderstood from person to person.

Love is buried in there somewhere. Let me give you an example. Say a mother wants the best for her children. She spends her time working and controlling their behavior to the best of her ability, in an attempt to keep them from harm. The end result, these children have been kept from the world, now conditioned to fear it, to fear authority, to fear life, because "it's dangerous out there". These kids live at home after high school, again conditioned to depend on someone else to make their decisions.

Now we see them still living off their parents, and society hanging its head in shame. Did the mother not love her children? Indeed she did. The mother did what she could from her own life experience and her own conditioning, she had no choice otherwise. My whole point

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