love is the opium of the masses. it is a social construct. does anybody even know what love is? for one thing, its the most commonly used word today; seems like its so easy to fall in love!i bet ninety percent of people who use the word dont even know what it is or have felt it...its become so cliche to say "i love you"..and its manifestation has become so material- cards, conversations, candy...its beyond the written and the spoken...its the feeling..and the action...and more...its the experience
you can only know you love someone when you feel that unity. that selfless feeling from within - that you care about a person. a person for what he/she is. its the presence of that person that makes him/her special. his/her being. the totality. love doesnt rest on the duality of gender but on the unity of feeling and experience.
people just love to simplify complexity and love is just and example of that!
PS. sorry for the reference to 'masses'...assumes homogeneity at the social level...then i contradict it by saying all is complex...maybe homogeneity is a simplification of heterogeneity...!!
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