Love Alone Is Worth The Fight

What is love?  Webster defines it as an intense feeling of deep affection.  Google brings up music videos and philosophical explanations on its attachment to sexuality.  Some say love is a weapon.  Others argue that love doesn’t exist at all.  I say, love cannot be attached to the fear of being hurt in any way, form, or shape, or it wouldn’t be love at all.

Love is in all of us.  If you instantly want to argue, then I can delve into the darkest scenarios possible to prove love’s existence.  Even a killer is touched by love, but lacks conscience to lead them down the right path of expression.  With those full of hate they are choosing the opposite and that choice alone shows their battle against love’s existence.

Love is caring for others.  You want to see them blessings shower their lives.  You care about their outcome.  This feeling may prompt the spirit of giving and sacrificing.  It becomes acceptable for you to suffer for their gain.  In your suffering you feel satisfaction because they are prospering.  The sacrifice can range from the unpleasant feeling of eating at a restaurant you would rather not all the way the ultimate, sacrificing yourself.

Love can be biological.  One loves their mother because of that relationship alone.  Mom nursed, raised, protected, and sheltered you and a piece of your core shows appreciation by the feeling defined as love.  Love can be chemical; that feeling of satisfaction before, during, and after sex.

One thing for sure is love cannot change.  Love is either present or absent.  Love can grow or diminish in the same way water can be poured into or out of a cup.  A simmering love can find a source of fuel and ignite into a burning inferno.  A raging love can be put out in an instant and vanish.  But love cannot change.  It changes you.

Love has a lengthy list of side effects that include, but are not limited to: happiness, joy, peace, kindness, patience, gentleness, caring, faith, and hope.  Love puts a smile on your face when it’s raining outside.  Love brings tears to your eyes when your daughter gets married.  Love sends chills down your arm when he whispers in your ears something romantic.  Love washes away the fear and comforts you in the storms of life.  Love replaces words of anger.  Love helps you wait, so you’re not alone.  Love gives hope when there doesn’t seem to be a way.

All this being said; love alone is worth fighting for.  Love brings too much positivity with it to be ignored or without.  Some days or even years can go by without love present.  You should have your sword and shield in hand and be in the middle of the battle.  Swing away at hate.  Stab frustration until it bleeds out.  Conquer fear and raise your sword high above your head and shout in victory, “I choose love!”  For without love we are a hollow shell waiting to be shattered.