It is also good to love: because love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation. That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn. With their whole being, with all their forces, gathered around their solitary, anxious, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love. But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and therefore loving, for a long time ahead and far on into life, is: solitude, a heightened and deepened kind of aloneness for the person who loves.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
We must learn.
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I don't agree. I actually think one of the easiest things to do is love. Everyone loves lots of things. I love my dog, I love my parents, I love the internet. I love other human beings. I've loved another human. And all the while I've never actually tried to love....it just happened.
ReplyDeleteI actually think love is most pure in young people because they are not infected with the persuasions and notions of social environment. Love is now a commodity. Love is fear. That we even have a term called "Gold Diggers" is a testament to that. In fact I'm willing to say love is lost in adulthood not gained or learnt.
I also belief in reason and logic. And to me is doesn't seem logical that the most powerful force in the world I consider to be love - should be a "solitude, a heightened and deepened kind of aloneness".
Maybe I should read it in context though. Just sayin...