Disillusionment And Love In 2011

Written by Linda Mains

So how would you describe the emotion that humanity has given the name of love? Does love still exist in 2011? Or has it changed during our current millennium, to mean something more?

Since the beginning of time, there has been a million stories dedicated to describing, famous and not so famous couples whom have been in love. Even Adam and Eve was a tragic tale of love. You're probably asking me how was Adam and Eve tragic? Well they where thrown out of the Garden of Eden, simply because Eve ate and then shared the Apple with Adam. I guess, the love that Adam and Eve shared, was something that God really was not happy about. Or was he jealous of the love that his number one creation felt for Eve? There has always been jealousy amongst people and the God's, regarding other peoples love. Why would someone be jealous and not happy about any couple being in love? Because most of us are very, very, petty! It's hard to find someone to love, hell it's hard to find someone you can deal with on a daily bases. I've heard that a lot of people, are so desperate to find that thing called love...that many of us are willing to trust online dating services. But does online dating services really work? I've also heard that many people have also found their soul-mates threw these services. My biggest question is; "why is love so important in 2011?"

Has anyone else in California noticed just how desperate, some men and women have become, to be in any kind of a relationship? I've never been desperate enough, to want any particular person to be in a relationship with. My motto is let the cards fall where they may. Yes after some of my break-ups, I've been depressed. You could say even really, really, depressed. But not anymore! Why has my soul changed it's mind about love, and being obsessed with other people? I believe, that a lot of very desperate people have a God whole in their souls. These poor unfortunate souls, are the kind of people whom fill up this whole, with; drugs, alcohol, sex, relationships and with material things. I guess that God whole can also be filled with religion. So is that really love? I personally don't believe that that type of obsession, is what most people would call real love. When you need any person to fill the part of your soul where God should be, because your empty on the inside. If your feeling that type of an emotion, that is more like an addiction, then a relationship. That's not what I would call any kind of real relationship. These types of people are borderline stalkers...whom wouldn't know what real love was, even if it was described word for word to them.

So what is real love then? Well I guess real love is when two people, feel as if they wouldn't be able to survive without the other person in their lives. Now real love can happen between anybody. It can happen between men and women, women and women, and men with men. Real love has no boundaries, and it's not based on any religious believe. Love just is! I believe that we should feel nothing but happiness, for those people whom where lucky enough and are lucky enough, to have found any kind of love. But not all love is the same. You have the Shake Spear kind of love, that border's on tragedy. An example of that type of love would be Romeo and Juliet, or what happened to the wives and husbands of many of the 9/11 victims. Then you have the type of love that happens to the very young, whom fall head over heals and are married at a really young age; staying together for the rest of their lives. There is the kind of love that beautiful women feel towards obese men. Now that type of love also happens with hot men too. There's the kind of love that happens between one famous person, and a regular non-famous person. It also happens between two famous people. There is also interracial love, between different ethnic races and gay love between man and man and woman and woman, along with the love of transsexuals. There is probably a million different forms of love, and none of these forms are wrong!

Threw out the centuries, mankind has tried controlling people with their choices, about whom they where allowed to love. These evil people used religion and cultural rules to control peoples choices. Even today in our time, in 2011; millions if not billions of people have been stopped from loving people, biased on those religious and out dated cultural rules. Rules that have dictated whom an individual, could or couldn't date or marry. I personally believe, that these rules have probably been responsible for changing the directions of many peoples life's, threw out the history of humanity. People didn't live their life's to the fullest, because they missed out on being with their soul mates. Soul mates that they may never have had the opportunity of meeting again. To me any type of love is not wrong! To me the people whom constantly are trying to control the destiny of other people's choices, are the people whom are wrong, because "love has always been in the eye of the beholder!"