LOVE ❤

Naman
ILLUMINATION
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4 min readJul 3, 2024

My personal take on the emotion ‘LOVE’ and its true meaning.

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Ah! everyone’s favourite word and emotion, aren’t we all bind by LOVE yet not bounded by it ? That’s the beauty of it.

Hearing, seeing, a lot of people, in misery, crying, wasting their life, money, over so called ‘Love’, I wonder, how unlucky they are or must be that they are failing to realise and have failed to understand the true essence of LOVE (when they lose someone) and then they all blame it to Love! as per their convenience! We should all asks ourselves, was it really love in the first place ? or it was just mere infatuation and attraction ?

LOVE IS FREEDOM — Yes, there’s, no doubt about it, freedom doesn’t mean you are liable to act and hurt someone, it means, you are accepting that others can't offer what you seek, so you let them be in their own trajectory, respecting them, rather than criticising, being narcissistic about it, and then blaming it again, to, LOVE.

Here is my raw and upfront take on this topic after years of observing people and realising what actually it is.

  1. Love isn’t a big deal, falling in and out from it, but hurting yourself in the sake of ‘LOVE’, is, staying with toxic people and environment is, a dealbreaker, why ? because this will always delay your process and time for you to heal after a heartbreak (which may or may not be even love in the first place(I understand, you might have loved someone unconditionally but now when the relation is over, is it really worth it to crib about it, day in and out (rather then focussing somewhere else) ? ask yourself this, whenever you are/feel stuck, why can’t we just wish them good luck and start our own journey and create some boundaries which is positive and heal in our own space, Time won’t heal anyone, and it doesn’t, its your choices and the mindset, commitment towards your own-self, which will help you to move-on. Try it out !!
  2. Love never hurts or never will: Also an old saying, which, I have lived and felt this in its true essence as well, love surely doesn’t hurt but the person who is incapable of giving and providing love, definitely and because of their incapability we often blame such pure emotion which is LOVE which in reality was never felt by the other partner (so, ask yourself, was that love, or co-dependency, or just the mere presence of him/her, which was keeping you sad, happy and emotionless sometimes?
  3. Love is letting go and moving on: Absolutely, it is letting the other person grow and blossom in their own time and space, ‘Force’ , ‘Pressure’ can’t be brought here, sometimes, you may exert pressure because you want them to grow but again it has to be presented in such a way that its positive for the other partner, else the flower(your partner) will not blossom, you need to water it, not all the time but when it is required and needed, Don’t step on it, let it shine and you will see the glow. With no freedom -> flower (human) won’t blossom.
  4. Over ‘love’ is toxic: There’s a famous story about the over-love, how it kills a person and makes a human weaker, a mother pampering her child, so much that they lose the touch of real life and gets devoid of reality, and when the reality hits them as they grow, they don’t know how to act (handle emotions, stress, rejections) thus, they whither, or fall into depression and starts consuming substances to curb and when they come out of it, they lament) this is what we all see, isn’t it. Love but not over-do it, letting go and keeping your own self respect is the key here as well.
  5. Lastly, I always say, Communicate, its simple and easy ;) There’s a reason why nature has blessed you with voice, use it, wisely and don’t stop yourself until you express what they truly mean to you, when you love them.

LIFE IS A GIFT, IT WASN’T GIVEN TO YOU, RANDOMLY.

Being emotional makes you human but also sticking to such so called ‘Love’ when you know it is/was/will be the dead end where you will/were/are disrespected, taken for granted, isn’t love at all.

Additionally,
Love and let it go, because, you need that flower to blossom and prosper, you don’t own it, you are just there to feel it presence and vice versa :)

BE WORTHY, BE WISE, BE HUMBLE, SEEK INSIDE BECAUSE YOU ARE ‘LOVE’, IT’S YOUR TRUE ESSENCE, LOVE YOURSELF FIRST AND SEE THE CHANGE :)

PEACE, LOVE, UNITY AND RESPECT (P.L.U.R)

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Naman
ILLUMINATION

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