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In the name of love, many people experience hurt, discouragement, rejection, and are broken in life. A song lyric says, "Too much love will kill you..." And yet, every person on earth longs for love, despite its supposed adverse effects. Why is love so important to us, in spite of all these negative thoughts and views about it? The reason is simply that we are emotional beings. We are created with a unique need to love and to be loved. Each of us craves a sense of belonging. We...
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In the name of love, many people experience hurt, discouragement, rejection, and are broken in life. A song lyric says, "Too much love will kill you..." And yet, every person on earth longs for love, despite its supposed adverse effects. Why is love so important to us, in spite of all these negative thoughts and views about it? The reason is simply that we are emotional beings. We are created with a unique need to love and to be loved. Each of us craves a sense of belonging. We naturally long to love and to be loved.The strong feeling of love satisfies a deep emotional need for each human being. We all need to give and receive love. I believe that our capacity to love and to be loved is what makes life worth living. We all need to give love, and we all need to receive love! Love is perhaps the most fascinating word in the world, because anyone can give it his or her own meaning. Some people say love is just an emotion or feeling. Others would say it is shown more than felt. Love can be seen in many facets of life, expressed in many forms. It is given to a specific person or to a group of people. Love gives life and hope to the hopeless. However, it is important to distinguish between genuine and superficial love. Of course, everyone would like to experience genuine love. True love gives us purpose and meaning in life. The pains and sacrifices we may experience in our desire to give our love to others without expecting anything in return serve as evidence of true love. When you truly love someone, you will not be bothered with trying to satisfy the opinions of other people around you. Your only concern will be to make the person whom you love happy, delighted, and satisfied through a healthy love relationship. Many people are plagued by painful experiences because of a wrong view of love. Some think love is just having a romantic relationship with someone. At the early stage of a relationship, everything is enjoyable - fun, if you will - and you don't want to miss a single moment. When the relationship is faced with a test, one may feel unloved and stop loving the other. It may seem to be easier for the partners to part ways when their relationship is faced with a trial, rather than to work at resolving the problems. If they do, though, both of them will be broken and hurt. Because of this kind of painful experience in love, many people become closed-minded about entering into a new relationship. Some individuals have remained single until their old age - never again entering into a committed relationship -after their first relationship broke their heart.Mark Twain said, "Love: the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." There's truth in that statement, isn't there? The more we resist that emotional feeling, the more we crave it. The truth is that the only time we stop wanting to feel and express love is when we are dead. As long as you're alive, you'll always look for ways to satisfy that longing to be loved and to love. I chose WHERE THERE IS LOVE THERE IS LIFE as the title of this book for three reasons: First, I wanted to give emphasis to the need of every human being to love and to be loved. The need for love is a constant for all people. We are emotional beings and part of our way of life is to love. Second, I want to explicitly express that you, as a human being, have a great potential to love. Life in itself is already an expression of love. We live to express love in every capacity that we have. We like to do things that we love. So we will talk about love in more ways than just the romantic aspect. In this section, we will discover different avenues of life where you can find love. Third, love gives a sense of purpose and meaning in life. We live to give love, not only on special occasions marked in our calendar, but throughout our lives. The way we express this love gives us meaning in life.