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12-11-01 on love Nothing much special in today's comic, except that Zero finally gets a hit in on the (cheating?) TDC. Also, yesterday was my sister's birthday. She's 18. Yeah. Well, having taken two weeks off of ranting (against my wishes and better judgment) I now feel equipped to take on a subject about which poets dream and one which philosophers tend to avoid... Love is an interesting thing, to say the least. Christians will tell you that there are three kinds of love, God's love, brotherly love, and the love between a man and a wife. Others will tell you that the Christian description of three loves is too limiting, and that there are several more. Allow me to go a few steps further and say that love comes in all shapes and sizes. You know that warm feeling you feel when looking at your favorite poster? It's not at all the same as when you look at, say, your mother, neh? Rather than attempting to define all these many different loves, let's just say that love is a verb. In I Corinthians chapter 13, Paul goes into an explicit list of what love is or isn't. Among his more logical conclusions is that no matter how great a man is, he is nothing without love. Indeed, he is an empty shell, a husk, a shadow of his former self, or perhaps of the self he will be. Pessimistic, neh? I'd rather take the optimist's view. Love heals, restores, protects. It gives wings to faith, hope to the hopeless (yes, even to Dark Christians) and life to the lifeless. I now have a response to "Get a life", as I've recently attained one... But let's keep this off the personal level. ;) Let's just say that love that has not been put into action is just a vague, warm emotion. It's when one acts that that emotion is accurately conveyed to others. It's sacrifice, in the little things and the big things. According to Dr. Jubal Harshaw, in Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, "love is when another's happiness is essential to your own." Sounds a bit like sacrifice to me. I guess what I'm trying to get across to you is that love is more than just that warm, fuzzy feeling you feel inside when you see someone or some thing. Granted, it is that, but it's more than that. Love grows and changes with time, and is never the same between two people. Ever. Trying to compare loves is a lesson in futility, and usually ends in frustration or heartache, or both. Love is the sacrifice of self for the sake of another. This does not mean that if you love someone, you should kill yourself, not by any means. By sacrifice, I mean giving up things you would ordinarily do. When another is involved, such things are selfish... but now I'm rambling. Have a good week, guys. I hope you don't mind my ranting about happy things. *chuckle* I'm sure I can bring up some depressing ones if you prefer. ^_~ TDC, who wrote this rant with a particular someone in
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