Hello Friends,
I put this question: Are there limits to Love (this is human for human)? How many loves can you offer? Are you able to successfully love more people simultaneously? If you divide your love between multiple people, is it watered down? Do you believe it is partially emotional, partially physical, and all action reveals it?
First, Within a family comprised of parents, children, siblings, and extended members, as one person in this family, is your ability to diminish (water down) love because of the intrinsic number?
Second, I can and do love multiple people. Does my love end if a friend or even one of my children offends me? No, but if they refuse to stop offending, I am forced to keep my distance.
Third, I believe in romantic love because I am a romantic idealist. I relish the process of meeting and falling in love with (in my case) a woman. I learn all about her, develop a relationship, and make it work to the best of my ability. If a breakup or a divorce modifies the relations, I still love them, even if the reason for the parting was harsh. I do not harbor hate.
Fourth, I am made to be part of a relationship. I am not an island; several songs (even some of my own) point this out. I prefer to devote my emotions and actions to a woman who does the same for me. Can I simultaneously love more than one woman without being torn apart or tearing at the hearts of the women involved? In the 1960s, I lived through my "Paris Time" in New York's Greenwich Village within a culture ahead of its time. I did love more than one girl, and only one was hurt. (She wanted me to move to Sweden, her home, but that wasn't for me then).
If a girl liked me and I did not like her, maybe she would be disappointed, as I was when a girl I wanted didn't like me.
So now, after sailing many times on rough seas with waves of conservatism and liberalism tossing me about, I have arrived at a place I call my home. It is a place where I live, not lawlessly or ignoring the views of others, but a place where I am free to be me. And I hope to become friends with people like me. But I am not a salesman, a politician, a preacher, a guru, a dictator, or a messiah. I will not convince them to be another me.
It sounds trite and dated, but John Lennon's song has more meaning for me now:
All You Need Is Love
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"All You Need Is Love" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as a non-album single in July 1967. It was written by John Lennon ...