friendship vs Love
The word "versus" which i used in the short form in the title wouldn't be very appealing as friendship and love are never really against each other. There is an hypocrisy which is attached to both of these qualities which makes me use the word "versus".
Accept it or not love is rare .Experiencing the experience of being loved for no reason whatsoever is quite rare. It is more improbable then mice ruling us from their burrows inside the earth. I am talking about unconditional love. Strictly speaking no qualifying term or an adjective like "unconditional" be used to describe love, but the everyday attack on our minds about the definitions and meanings and experiences about love makes me use such adjectives. It is certainly rare that when most of our lives are spent as selfish, greedy, irrational creatures there is something like love which we are capable of, but mind u it is rare . If you don't accept to it's rarity then i have to say all best things have to be rare ,else why crave or celebrate a very common thing. A brute or a king kong may show what we would like to call love, but that brute cannot be in that state forever and as long as state changes so does the "precious" feelings and what we previously referred to as love has become very much bound by time. Time changes so do the feelings hence love.
Now, the friendship which i believe is what means more to many people then this "love" ,after all friends are forever. The friends one makes are first of all are mostly the class mates, colleagues or the ones whom u spent your childhood with. Iam sad for so many other souls who can't go to classes and hence cannot understand this.I guess they are too busy working for one meal a day and are not to be burdened with friends and lovers. Other then class mates who are friends only because you are familiar .Leave som 50 people of the same age group in a lonely island i guess many frriends will be thanking god for giving them so many friends. Friendship is a safety net in the society . In all probablity no body loves everything about himself and the society he lives in. I am pathetic in defining what friendship is like ,so i assume those who read this blog have some friends and i don't assume you have a lover or not since it is of no use to me.
We have all grown up with the adage that what we don't have are like the sour grapes. What do we do in this case ? Make love very common, it is the sour grapes and eat the ones that are available on the ground, friendship and then start celebrating it as the best thing to happen and even go to the ridiculous extent of praising the latter more then the former.
LOVE is unchallenged in terms of all the other qualities that a human possibly can have. Love needs no opposites to support it. Though the previous two statements where just statements with no proof backing them, they really follow my premise of love being rare hence it has to be unchallenged. As we see in daily lives hating is so much easy to us and if love really has the opposite called hate and if hate is easy so does love. The world is dualistic (this fact is very much established) everything occurs in pairs and hence if love has the opposite called hate and hate is easy then love has to be easy or very common. I asserted that love is not common but very rare hence it cannot have any opposite.
Even trying it compare or qualifying a friendship with love is something a person who did not experience love.
Life has to be crazy and unnatural only then the joy remains in life and love certainly provides that unnaturalness and the craziness which are missing in everyday selfish and boring lives.
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