We
cannot talk of love without going way back to the very beginning of it, which
is the creation of man in the Garden of Eden; for man was created out of love
and for love.
So,
The story of love begins with God. When God breathed on man, he breathed not only
life but love as well. That is the double L. that makes up a man; LIFE and LOVE.
So,
God
initiated the first institution of love, when he created Adam and Eve. After He formed Adam, He discovered it was not good for man to be alone, so He made Eve
as a companion. From then, the concept of love and togetherness came into
existence.
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Therefore,
since the beginning of man, love has existed and will continue to exist and be
the reoccurring decimal in any relationship, especially that between man and
woman.
The
same awe and astonishment Adam felt when he first set eyes on Eve, is still being re-enacted
in every relationship today. Because, even though love is an old phenomenon, it
will be forever new. People fall in love every day and when it happens, you
feel its freshness, its newness and the euphoria that goes with it. To you, it
is something new, unique and peculiar.
So
what is love or what is the true definition of love? I thought I knew it all until
when i went out to sample opinions; I now discovered that the definition of
love is as varied as the number of individuals I asked.
At the end of my research for the true
definition of love, I came to acknowledge the fact that there is not and there will never be any consensus on the appropriate definition of love. Therefore, I likened the story
of love definition to the story of the seven blind men who went out to the zoo to
feel an elephant. On their return, each described the elephant from the angle
he was able to touch. Each was neither wrong nor right
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Let’s
just say people defined love based on their feelings, beliefs, experiences and
even intellectual perspectives. For instance, Anthropologist, Sexologists, Philosophers,
Psychologist, Psychoanalysts, Social behaviourists, Social scientists
Sociologists, etc, all have defined love from their disciplinary perspectives
and have all put forward arguments to support their definitions. Well, they are
neither wrong nor right too.
Even
Poets, great Scholars, both ancient and modern, have written wonderful and
glowingly things about love. In addition, Love has been and is been celebrated
in songs daily.
Scientists
are not left out at all, they put love to the test tube and came up with the
term `Chemistry of love`. They argued that love and loving happens because of
certain chemical reaction in the body. They talk of hormones, testosterone,
progesterone etc., but until date, they are yet to discover the exact chemical
that induce or breed love between two people. Well, we are still waiting for
that breakthrough in scientific study of love.
