At the end of my human sexuality class the cluster of reading materials were centered around love, relationships, and spirituality. With my current relationship pains resting in the forefront of my brain I opted out of most of the readings and refused to academically write the paper. I ended up turning in much more of a journal entry with random quotes from the two I managed to swallow. I just didn't want to deal with it all. Writing the "paper" ended up being such a release and felt so good that it is what inspired the start up of this blog anyways.
We got to this discussion in class. One girl explained that she felt that the readings had taught her how to love.
What.How.Absurd.
Are we taught to love? Is it something we learn? Or is it something that's always within us.
I want to argue that LOVE is a human quality. Something we're born with, something that is a part of us always. Comparative to a stomach, or bones, a brain, a nose. It's something we have. A part of us.
We have to learn to take care of our love, cultivate it, and be mindful of it. Perhaps we'll meet certain people in our lives and they will awaken (an aspect of) our love, and we will experience it. Romantic (my favorite, probably most peoples favorite), loyalty, trust, family, friendship - these are all aspects of love that we can feel because of the love we have.
If we don't take care of our love, it can be harmful to us.
L.O.V.E as a part of our being is also the love we have for ourselves. The way we take care of it and relate to it is the way we love ourselves.
Wake up to the love you have. Experience it. Take care of it. Love yourself.
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