Love

This world revolves around love. The song, play, and story we read for class, sadly, does show how love is today. Both the song and the story talk about how people do crazy things for love. I think though, that people who go to measures like that might want to be loved more than they really do love the person. People are insecure (not excluding myself) with themselves and define themselves in their love or acceptance of other people.


As Christians, we are supposed to love as God loves. God’s love is unconditional, unlike in this story when Mel thinks that you can love (a deep love) anyone solely based on if they are in a relationship with that person This is nearly impossible though because for us, it is imperfect loving imperfect, and therefore the love itself cannot be perfect. We can try our best, but our love is always going to have faults. And in return, the greatest love is to love someone despite their faults. Love to me is willingness to do anything for the other person to prove how much you care for them.

This world’s view of love is so distorted. Love today is sex, ownership, and self-seeking pleasure. Love should be a conjoined effort and attraction between both people. It is always a work in process, and won’t work if one loves more than the other. People want to bail out when things get rough. But is that really love? Do you really truly, deeply love someone if you leave the PERSON because of the SITUAION?



If only it were really that easy to go back and start over like in the play, whenever things got awkward or a little shaky. How easy this little thing called “love” could be!