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On getting 1,620,000,000 search results out of the one word ‘love’ on google goes out to show the amount of popularity this noun plus verb generates in our lives. Right from the platonic versions to the not-so-platonic ones, love is at the end of the day to some extent an overrated chemical reaction in the head. It is totally something that makes the world go round but is it worth all that hoopla? Is it really a psychological term for a physiological need or that deep and cryptic human emotion that try as one may, man has been unable to explain? Let’s deliberate some more, let’s try and tell what love means to each of one us so that we may, if not resolve the issue, at least make a good start.
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I can say yes and i can say no but I will say both.
Love is too pure a word to be overrated but teens usually make them a top priority on their list of things to do. now thats were it gets overrated.
I believe that teens can’t differentiate between love and a normal crush. And maybe thats because when you are in your teens you start to feel lonely, even when you are surrounded with your loving family and friends.
Hopefully I am making some sense :D
Love is too pure a word to be overrated but teens usually make them a top priority on their list of things to do. now thats were it gets overrated.
I believe that teens can’t differentiate between love and a normal crush. And maybe thats because when you are in your teens you start to feel lonely, even when you are surrounded with your loving family and friends.
Hopefully I am making some sense :D
(Local Perspectives)
Thanks Jay and for Nishant, yes, you are very much making sense. I also understand that one starts off with overrating love a lot and then the intensity dimishes which in some ways is saddening. But I think I would not have it any other way because at least once in lifetime we make it the heart of our life and make our lives revolve around. So I guess answering my own question I would say if love is overrated then be it, it deserves it!
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@Somya
When i meant love, i didn’t mean love between a couple of teens or any other couple for that matter. I meant love in a much broader sense, like a mother loving her child, or even a patriot loving his nation or a poor farmer loving his field. IMHO, this emotion will not diminish with time, rather it will grow richer with time and like you said, even if the eternal emotion, love is overrated, so be it.
When i meant love, i didn’t mean love between a couple of teens or any other couple for that matter. I meant love in a much broader sense, like a mother loving her child, or even a patriot loving his nation or a poor farmer loving his field. IMHO, this emotion will not diminish with time, rather it will grow richer with time and like you said, even if the eternal emotion, love is overrated, so be it.
(Local Perspectives)
Jay, I can’t prove it but what you said is exactly what I always say and think about the word love and that’s what I mean by Pure love :)
(Local Perspectives)
But I am sure it is a mother’s love and the one between siblings, basically the platonic kind that never gets overrated, don’t you think? Don’t you think whether its valentines or rose day, it is always the non-platonic love or the infatuation-like love that gets overrated? Can anyone match the intensity of marketing Valentines day with a mother’s day or father’s day? Worse still, they dont even have a brother or sister day! When I say overrated I always think its the romeo-juliet kind that is subject to getting blown out of proportion.
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@Somya
As you said, the valentine’s day concept is purely a market driven commercial spectacle, the theatrics of which we unfortunately have to witness year after year. And i think the mother’s day, father’s day, et all also are commercial events and i really care an absolute fig for all these goddamned day’s to show my affection for my loved ones. Though i hate the shiv sainiks and the VHP,etc disrupting these events and terrorizing the gift shop owners during the Valentine’s day, the devil in me quietly feels vindicated and triumphant seeing the gift shops ransacked although i do feel sorry for the harrassed couple’s.
As you said, the valentine’s day concept is purely a market driven commercial spectacle, the theatrics of which we unfortunately have to witness year after year. And i think the mother’s day, father’s day, et all also are commercial events and i really care an absolute fig for all these goddamned day’s to show my affection for my loved ones. Though i hate the shiv sainiks and the VHP,etc disrupting these events and terrorizing the gift shop owners during the Valentine’s day, the devil in me quietly feels vindicated and triumphant seeing the gift shops ransacked although i do feel sorry for the harrassed couple’s.
(Local Perspectives)
it’s not always a case of non-platonic love when it comes to valentines day though that’s the case with 90% of couples.
As for the V’Day, it is all about marketing and so are mother and father’s day. Because I seriously don’t think that kids wait for those two days to say/feel love for their parents. And so goes for V’Day, if I love a girl then she’ll know it , no matter what day it is.
That said, I am not against them, people love these days and specially V’Day, so let them enjoy, have fun with their loved ones. :D
As for the V’Day, it is all about marketing and so are mother and father’s day. Because I seriously don’t think that kids wait for those two days to say/feel love for their parents. And so goes for V’Day, if I love a girl then she’ll know it , no matter what day it is.
That said, I am not against them, people love these days and specially V’Day, so let them enjoy, have fun with their loved ones. :D
(Local Perspectives)
Love is certainly is highly overrated. More may it’s a must to have to stay relevant in society. It is also a sheer wastage of time. How many people who were in love have made a mark in their lives? Hmm… I cant recall many. While takings about love don’t forget the amount of time it needs to keep a love relationship on even keels. Just think of channeling this source of energy and you would see the difference in your life. Come on grow up world and move beyond love. Try!
(Local Perspectives)
An overrated chemical reaction in the laboratory of the young at heart, no wonder Shakespeare’s Malvolio in Twelfth Night said ’If music be the food of love,play on’, when asked by his retinue of sycophants if he would like to enjoy the music,on getting a message of consent from Olivia; though under illusion.
(Local Perspectives)
@ Parul: from what you say, it seems like you think of love as a ”stepping stone”. everything we do in life does not have to be for profit or success, some things are just for happiness or peace. Love does not necessarily mean romantic love. it could be any form of passion that drives a person. no amount of success or money can buy you that feeling. being in love and being loved certainly makes you a much happier person
(Local Perspectives)
Hahaha! Quite an innovative issue to raise. I am perfectly in opinio with Nishant. Love no matter remains to heavenly, an experience eternal and emsmerising to have but then the hype and hoopla among tennagers truly takes it to limits that seem a little too cliched...especially with the amount of hype we see these days on Valentine’s Day and Rose Day or in that case the so called Kiss Day. But putting that aside love is the only refershner that still continues to revive one’s sucked energies in todays world of get. set and go...So keep loving!!
(Local Perspectives)
Kurt Vonnegut had said that if somebody says ’i luv u’, to me, i feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anyone reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ’I love u too.’ So, most people experience love without any feel or the emotions that are worth noticing about it.
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@ Shuchi
Absolutely, i agree with you. I really fail to understand why a few of our fellow members are potraying love as a negative emotion. In fact, if there is something missing in our busy lives, it is love and by love, i don’t mean romance!!!
Absolutely, i agree with you. I really fail to understand why a few of our fellow members are potraying love as a negative emotion. In fact, if there is something missing in our busy lives, it is love and by love, i don’t mean romance!!!
(Local Perspectives)
Love is a great appetizer for the nobler and much subdued feelings in some cavern of our heart. It needs to be made expectant of a partner or a companion or your relations or even your own self;so that, the appetite, that is not always ulterior, may remain alive and forcible to express itself.
(Local Perspectives)
Kurt Vonnegut was, self-evidently, and as anyone who had survived the apocalypse which was the bombing of Dresden must have been - a very wise man. I love that quote with the comparison of being told that someone loves you to having a gun pointed at your head as I have personally found love to be quite a painful and troubling experience... thus far in life, anyway.
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(Global Perspectives)
Parul, you are missing the point. Love is not always about a girl and a boy, it’s much much more than that. (read jay’s comments and you’ll know what I am talking about).
(Local Perspectives)
Jay time for you to write a thesis on the same.. Shakespeare of the new era...lol...Jokes apart, your comments truly top the discussion here... cheers!
(Local Perspectives)
@ Greame, I m supplying u with another one.
Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude.
Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
It does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.
Love bears all things, believe all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
That’s what The Holy Bible has to say about love.
Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude.
Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
It does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.
Love bears all things, believe all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
That’s what The Holy Bible has to say about love.
(Local Perspectives)
no one can define love because you can never express it in words. Its all in feelings and emotions. It can be shown and felt by your attitude. A child knows the expression through your physical behaviour only.
(Local Perspectives)
2 Desh - thankyou for those kind words. I do believe in love and the power of it. Life has been difficult. I guess we all have trials to bear.
I am donating my web earnings to charity. This is one manifestation of love.
I am donating my web earnings to charity. This is one manifestation of love.
(Global Perspectives)
@ Greame, Life is not always a bed of roses. We, as being the mortals, have to bear and undergo its ups and downs. Love definitely instills in us a power and a positivity to face these challenges bravely and effectively. Sorry, I cant emulate you for some reason. I’ll try to express my love in some other way. LOL...
(Local Perspectives)
Love is the most powerful emotion in the world. It is the ultimate chemical reaction that makes us feel the most intense state of realizing what it is to live.
Its boundaries can never be defined and its intensity varies to the person expressing the feeling. Love is the mother of all emotions. It transcends all other emotional states.
Its boundaries can never be defined and its intensity varies to the person expressing the feeling. Love is the mother of all emotions. It transcends all other emotional states.
(Global Perspectives)
To love is to learn how to live. The very essence of life is in loving the people very special to you.
Without love, the world will experience all the pains and sufferings. But with the existence of love, there comes understanding and forgiveness.
All the bad memories are washed away when love is present. It conquers the deepest hurts and helps a person to move on.
Without love, the world will experience all the pains and sufferings. But with the existence of love, there comes understanding and forgiveness.
All the bad memories are washed away when love is present. It conquers the deepest hurts and helps a person to move on.
(Global Perspectives)
@ atul
Mate, thanks,.., neway i don’t intend to so a will shakey anytime too soon,.,.out here im known as a more hard headed nutter than a sensitive softy
Mate, thanks,.., neway i don’t intend to so a will shakey anytime too soon,.,.out here im known as a more hard headed nutter than a sensitive softy
(Local Perspectives)
@ Everybody
LOVE definitely is a chemical stuff.. but definitely one we need.. and definitely one that makes us happy .. Love can be destructive and constructive at the same time.. the constructive phase if it is more prevalant can work wonders in terms of boosting self confidence, getting support, being appreciated, increasing the power to express, and feel cared for when the world turns against you.. but the destructive phase can kill a person at the worst.. so its a mixed bag.. yes risky to get involved in.. but a risk evryone is willing to take.. atleast a few times in their life..
LOVE definitely is a chemical stuff.. but definitely one we need.. and definitely one that makes us happy .. Love can be destructive and constructive at the same time.. the constructive phase if it is more prevalant can work wonders in terms of boosting self confidence, getting support, being appreciated, increasing the power to express, and feel cared for when the world turns against you.. but the destructive phase can kill a person at the worst.. so its a mixed bag.. yes risky to get involved in.. but a risk evryone is willing to take.. atleast a few times in their life..
(Local Perspectives)
@everybody
a risk everyone is willing to take a few times in their life? That apart, i don’t understand why almost everybody here are equating love to romance. Love can also be what a patriot has for his nation. Why don’t we see it in that perspective and then again, why should we fall in love with a motive? I thought that was called lust!!! It’s a complicated world this, and it’s people, even more so!!!
a risk everyone is willing to take a few times in their life? That apart, i don’t understand why almost everybody here are equating love to romance. Love can also be what a patriot has for his nation. Why don’t we see it in that perspective and then again, why should we fall in love with a motive? I thought that was called lust!!! It’s a complicated world this, and it’s people, even more so!!!
(Local Perspectives)
Love is an extremely overrated chemical reaction especially in the sense that we’d like to see it i.e. between opposite sexes (or even same ones, i guess). It isn’t overrated say when we love a family member but between lovers it is always birds singing, and Cupid’s arrows and what not. And am sick of it!
Maybe I want some loving of my own! Anybody up for it? Promise I won’t overrate it... :P
Maybe I want some loving of my own! Anybody up for it? Promise I won’t overrate it... :P
(Local Perspectives)
Well yeah so I guess we do agree that love is but in fact an overrated chemical reaction but also that it gives us a great deal of joy. Of course I think all our lives we continue to try and define love and then one day when its probably too late realize that all this time it is love that defines us.
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@Somya.,.As an afterthought, great article selection, indeed!!!