Oct 2009 09
Saturday question #35: Love
Since I know everyone's waiting for the site updates tomorrow and the fans on Facebook were told that they'll get a surprise on Monday if they don't mention Monday before Monday...how about I make it hard for you all until Monday because I am mentioning Monday though I don't care about Monday; yet you're all waiting for Monday though nothing's really going to happen for a long while after Monday?
So, in order to make everyone remember what really matters (and that is not Monday); this week's question is REALLY hard. And you should crank your souls and minds to 11 and give it your best. What is love? Define love. Talk about love.
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Not loving hurts.
Not mine, but it’s what I take love to be.
“Love is never wanting to lose faith, never wanting to give up, and never truly moving on. Love is knowing and praying in the deepest part of what’s left of your heart that they feel the same. ”
-Courtney Jo Wright
Love are all the good things in the life, and the things that aren’t in the life, like God, too. The best things are do with love. A good example of this are Frusciante’s songs, because John fell a great love for the music, he do wonderfull songs. Love is the best thing we can reach. The love make hapinness, a ethereal hapinnes. I think love is one of the points of the life.
loving hurts ):
Love is joy and sorrow; passion and tenderness; laughter and tears.
It is caring about someone’s feelings more than you care about your own. About not being too proud to say sorry when you’re wrong. It is feeling happy even when you can’t be together. And it is a sense of inner peace and resilience that radiates outwards to convey goodwill and greater tolerance to all those around us…
if we’re talking about love for a person, whether its family or friends, or a partner, i think its being willing to die for that person. feeling so passionate for them that you’d do literally anything for them. but then again if we’re talking about love for an object … likeeee…. pizza, its because it tastes yummy. i like yummys.
Love has so many past experiences and non experiences for me. My father distanced himself from me since I was 18 and I’ve never been in love. However, my love for my mom is so immense that I want nothing bad or negative to affect her. Love for her is protective, unconditional, powerful and always present in me. Love for others is available as long as they do not hurt or abuse what I give to them. Love for a higher power has always been there through faith. Although invisible my faith makes that love never fade. Love I believe is something that is always evolving and may change throughout the years of our existence. I love love.
Something that always leaves me confused…
Comes and goes when he wants, I don´t understand really… is like a woman I think, yes… like a woman exactly
Fucking love
I liked what Sue has to say. It also enforces my belief there’s a God when I see love, and when you love someone it’s like you see God created something amazing beying what you could imagine. I also think that when I see love from others for something, I’m more loving, it’s a multipicative thing.
And we all know, of course, that in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. Thank you Mr. McCartney ;D I read an interview with Mr. Lennon where he said that line was Paul’s idea, but John admitted that he quite liked it. This was a time when John was being snippy about Paul, so John followed that with “proves that Paul CAN think when he tries to…” Another example of love, I think deep down those two guys loved each other even when they hated each other. Love doesn’t go away that easy
I’m off to listen to Talib Kweli’s “Love Language”…a great song…also includes a like that makes me want to go PREEEACH after he says it “we speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish, some don’t love theyselves to their perception is tainted” …I think a lot of people don’t want to give love to others when they can’t even give it to themselves…but then again I don’t think love is a finite resource and that’s what I think those people think, they are afraid there’s only so much to go around…however, I all ready said, I think love multiplies quite easily.
That song also includes the lyrics “Love…it ain’t nothing but a word…a chicken ain’t nothing but a bird”
which just goes to show 1)how hard love is to talk about and 2)it IS just a word, to someone with a totally different viewpoint there is only so much words can do, but putting it into action can show it a lot better. Why do you think Cat Stevens wrote “How Can I tell You”…saying I love you could be nothing but a word if the person doesn’t mean it, or the person it’s told to doesn’t believe it. Someone who really knows the difficulty they’re facing trying to convince someone may give up when they try to find the words and think how weak they sound …words just blow away, etc. It’s a very true song.
A life without love is like a tree without fruit. Surprisingly found that on a label from the clothes company Fat Face, so won’t claim it’s original. Like it, just as I like the Blake poem…
Love to faults is always blind
always is to joy inclind
lawless winged and unconfined
and breaks all chains from every mind
Deceit to secresy confined
lawful cautious and refined
to ever thing but intrest blind
and forges fetters for the mind
Don’t think it’s ever been better expressed. Inexplicable, sometimes frustrating, sometimes the most wonderful thing we can ever experience. Accepting someone for who they are, regardless of how they look, dress, sound or whatever. Being able to say sorry when you mean it and being able to forgive.
i think that love is something universal. there are all kinds of love. love is also accepting and giving. the more you give the more you get. love is also passion for something or someone. like john has passion for music. love is also discovering new things every day, and seeing the bad and negative as good and positive. it’s also unity. to be able to have brotherhood and friendship and carring and kindness.love is also sharing and emphaty. to be able to love someone for who he is and what he is. love is also to be honest and true. to be able to love your friends the same way that you love yourself. that’s all i have to say.
This might be my 1st comment, but I do read a lot of your comments.
Being married for 19 years , Ive learned that my Love is unconditional.
Meaning I can do whatever I want , but so can she.
Love is giving not taking. Love is everywhere ,but you don’t always see it.
thank you for teaching me all about Love Red. I love you with all my heart and soul.
despite intentions, love is always conditional
Love is the truest form of acceptance. I have family, friends, and a husband I may never fully understand, but I don’t think it necessary to love them.
Chemicals and decisions. Love is chemicals and decisions.
I believe this is the best definition here
Debatably Decisions are also just chemical reactions, but I agree love is just another chemical reaction. Like everything in the human condition. Its a shame that something so beautiful is at the end of the day just electro-chemical reaction, then again the appreication of the beauty is just more chemicals.
Its all in the gaps in the brain.
Guess I’ll go ahead and debate you on that. But first I feel its necessary to say that I don’t think that the other definitions given for Love on here are less substantial than my own. I just like to boil things down to their core, with a minimum of hyperbole.
OK, so what you say is that “Decisions are also just chemical reactions,” I’m not entirely sure about that, or at least that thought is as susceptible as emotion to the coloring of instinct.
More to the point, my reasoning for chemicals & decisions was pretty simple, and really not that involved with science, just personal experience.
Chemicals= The beginning and the good times.
Decisions= The bad times, and the end. (or ends)
Experienced hands will get that pretty easily.
I get what you’re saying because while we may feel a certain way because of chemicals, sometimes we have the brain power to override that. Like you decide not to cheat with someone that has a partner, despite how turned on you are by them, because you know it’s wrong. Or you use your brain to decide how to act on those chemicals…you know you like someone, maybe it was a chemical thing, pheremonal or whatever, but then you have to decide where to go from here…
Then again, sometimes we don’t override the chemicals in our brains, and I don’t think that’s all that horrible either, it’s part of human nature. As long as you know before you get yourself into those situations things you absolutely won’t do (things like I won’t take advantage of someone…) it’s part of the mystery of being a human. Some hormone induced decisions seem to be part and parcel of being alive. So I agree that chemicals and decisions are both big factors in the way love plays out, and sometimes chemicals make your decisions, but I don’t think they do all the time or are the only thing that rules us.
Whatever we say, we just talk about a small part of the whole thing.
Love takes place on the level of music, faith, etc. They’re all more than just 3D and there’s an indestructible affinity between them. That’s the reason why we can try to explain what they mean to us, but never explain what they mean in general. It can even be hard to explain and get what they mean to you, so let’s say: Love is like “/9?)689%&$/*#*43³%&8/%$?” and life’s impossible without it.
Love is (the cause and) the goal of your life.
Love…
When you’re not affraid of dying because you know there’s someone in the deepest of your heart…
when you’re affraid of anything except the loss of love itself….
when you’re feeling this weird strength which make you go on besides all that you’ve been through in your life…
”I’m hanging on your words
living on your breath
feeling with your skin
Will I always be here…”
love is the feeling we experience when we connect with the spirit of life and universe, but it requires that you open yourself completely without fear or judgement.
The things we feel most pleasure with are the things we often love, but it is only
cause these things make us feel safe or excited enough to enter such a state. To open to love when we are in
the midst of discomfort requires more faith and self-trust, but I believe it is the ultimate challenge
a person can strive for. I believe that our experiences and beliefs determine how much we experience
the feeling of love in our lives.
I’m sure many people enjoy commenting on these questions of the week but I must ask, what is the point of this on a John Frusciante site?
Kind of lame. I’m sure you’ll delete this comment but I had to ask.
What’s the point? John’s really creative himself, many of people interested in his music are creative, too. Giving people a chance to express themselves once a week is nice.
Love is becoming vulnerable.
Love. Love is a word for an emotion. An emotion with a force that can drive us to do the craziest things. I don’t know much about love, I can’t define it for you. But everybody has felt love. From the care of parents to the soft lips of a lover. Love is infinite and love is kind. Love makes you a better person and love is an emotional joyride. The worst upset is when your love isn’t returned. Where others don’t take the chance to love and be loved, when they close their hearts, minds and souls to you and all the good that you wish them.
Love is. Always.
Mhhh…Love…it’s a pretty difficult subject if you ask me. There are many kinds of love, like love you feel for a family member or towards your girl/boyfriend. And then again there’s love towards things like music or art or something. I can only talk for myself but in my case the love towards music and art is the most strongest one, ’cause I could never ever love a human being as much as I love music. People disapoint you and hurt you and stuff like that (I know there are many good things too). There’s a person I love but…it’s hard to explain. IF there was a moment in which I had to choose between guitar and her…I’d probably take the guitar (music). Don’t hate me for that I just can’t help. Music saved my life and I couldn’t live without it…