Musings of the Soul

"I want to wish you well, I didn't watch you go 'cause i suppose i don't know how, I will remember you, not the way you left, but how you lived and what you knew." - Wish You Well- Katie Herzig

Love, an emotion people either claim holds great powers, or doesn't exist at all. It baffles, infuriates, and infatuates the human race. Individuals appear either desperate for love, despondent or in total denial. We find ourselves torn apart and put back together by the universal concept of love. It manifests as what people describe as unmissable emotional turmoil where by you can't live without someone.

According to Nietzsche, in his reflections upon man, 'the views we take of ourselves depend only to a slight extent upon what we actually are and do; for the most part they are suggested to us by others.' In this way those around us shape our identity, and obviously most definitively by those we let close enough to see our 'true' selves. The self that is usually repressed in the everyday, that comes out in burst of emotions too great to suppress. That is love, the feeling that a balloon is about to burst in your chest happiness, the sadness that makes your sob and profess that nothing will ever be the same again. But then again that could just be the exaggeration of a hopeless romantic soul.

Again, according to Nietzsche love is the sublimation of the sex drive. Which when you take into account the rush of companionship, certainly for the majority of the human race, that comes from a moment of intimacy makes a great deal of sense. But can you really level love down to a chemical balance in the brain and a rush of hormones? Or is that in fact, the lower regarded, feeling of lust? But that question opens up an entirely new kettle of fish concerning the importance of one above another in partnerships.

But i guess, what it really comes down to, for me at least, is, what d you want from love? Or, in not such a great leap, from life? You could spend all your days pondering the extent love exists, or you could spend your life orbiting around those who not only encourage your own happiness, but create a sphere of love you could never have dreamed of.