That is true! Love is both the easiest and hardest emotion we can ever experience. I was watching Jekyll the other night and in the end when they were explaining what Mr. Hyde was I realized that was the best explanation of love ever. The old lady was explaining to Claire that Hyde is love by asking her when was the moment she knew she could kill.
Claire’s response was the moment she first held her children. She knew in that moment she could kill o protect them. The old lady then explains that is Hyde. Hyde is the love that drives us to do things we never thought we could until we loved. think about it for a moment. Love is the one emotion that has no explanation to it. Anger is easy, it is being enraged and upset. But love can be more than that. We can be angry at someone and still love them.
We can be devastated by someone and still love them. We can kill to protect our children because we love them. We also punish them out of love. Love can be used for all sorts of reasons as to why we do the things we do. Right or wrong love is and always will be one of the most mysterious emotions. Ask yourself, why do you love your spouse? Can you name the exact thing or reason? Chances are you can name a number of things but there is no one. Now, why do your love your children?
I bet most of you responded because they are my children. Yet there are people in this world that for whatever reason cannot love their own children. Love is the one thing that I pray my children experience without allowing it to make them bitter. I hope that they come to understand that love comes in all shapes and forms and that you just never know when love will come your way.
I live in a small Georgia town that you most likely have never heard of and I LOVE it! My house is more than full as I am a single mother of four & caregiver to my aging mother and uncle. Lover of all things Outlander. Goes to the beat of her own drum woman.
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Yes love is the easiest and hardest emotion. I love my family to death, but sometimes I feel angry about some of the things they do. But I still love them. We also need to love others that are our neighbors and help them when we can.
I agree it I important to learn to love others
So very true and I know I never really experienced love, that love that cannot be explained until I had my own children. I know you’re right in saying some do not love their children and I have seen that in life but it always baffles me. I guess some things I’ll never understand because they are the greatest gift God could have given to us
I agree I will never understand not living thy gift either.
I remember trying so hard to try and make my father love me and not understanding why, in my eyes, he didn’t. It wasn’t until I was an adult did I realize that he did love me, but due to his upbringing didn’t know how to express it with words and a hug. His mother, who had 13 children, never told him that she loved him. So I make sure that I never let a day go by without showing and telling my son and husband that I Iove them. Happily , my dad now tells me too.
i agree!! I never felt loved growing up but when i met my other half and had kids i knew what it was to love someone soo much you would do anything for them.
I love this, so very true about love coming in different shapes and sizes. I find it sad that some people can not love their children, I heard recently about a horrible case of abuse inflicted by an infants own mother in Florida and it broke my heart… I am praying daily to be blessed with a child (whether it be my own or through adoption) and can’t wait to be a mother and show a child love. 🙂
Lauren,
I know how you feel. I am so blessed with the best step children in the world.
I love my little cousins and I don’t have children but I KNOW for a fact that if anyone tried to hurt them, I would make their life miserable!! They;’re my kids until I have kids of my own
I never knew what true love felt like until I had my daughter. and this article brought up a good point that Id never thought about..when you love someone, you can be devastated by them but still love them. thats what i didnt really have before I had my daughter but now I fully intend to raise her knowing what love really means.
The power and emotion felt with the word love is extraordinary, the length’s we would take or do for someone with this word in mind is sometimes beyond comprehensible. My children, thats a huge no-no, Momma bear grizzly will happen just like Jekyll, absolutely. Loved the post!
A very complicated subject love. As a parent I know sometimes I love my child for whom he is and sometimes I’n infuriated with him for the same reason. I will also love him as long as I am breathing. The one thing I know for sure is that it is better to love than to hate.
Yes, I agree that love can be complicated for some. I have been very lucky in love. All relationships have their ups and downs, but with communication and trust everything will be all right in the end.
This is so true. You can’t just put one label on the word Love. I think love is also what drives us to try to be better person.. We try to show and teach our children what love is. I just don’t know if they really get it until the are a little older. I pray that they have the joy of experiencing true love.
I agree. It is hard and great at the same time. It is a strange feeling somedays.
“Love” comes in so many different forms. In the greek language there are 4 different words for love. All of them have different meanings. It makes me sad to see so many children out there, that are fending for themselves because they’ve never experienced even one of those types of love. Therefore, as they grow, finding the wrong kinds of love. Love comes in so many forms, I have a really hard time with understanding how so many people aren’t even capable of one form, even if it’s just loving yourself first, then the rest is easier to follow. The bottom line is simple, find love in everything and everyone around you. It’s real easy to love, I think ( I had to learn it myself, but once I did, it’s heavenly ) you don’t always have to “like” it all or everyone. But for the love of all things holy, just LOVE!
Aren’t we fortunate to be loved?
Without love, we might as well be animals or machines. It’s the driving force behind much of what we do. I think you did a great job with this subject.