It can be easy, when talking about 'Love', to fall into the trap of thinking it is all about 'feeling.' No. Love with the capital ell expects of us that we remove sentiment from the equation. Maudling mooning over someone or something is nothing but lust. Love has intelligence and clarity and is far removed from emotion. There is compassion, not passion. There is warmth, not heat. There is appreciation, not ownership. There is whOleness not I-ness in Love.
So nice
ReplyDeleteDear YAM-aunty I wish you could explain this to my humans in terms that would enable them to clear more 'stuff' out of the cupboards I wish to hang out in. I'm sure a lot of it is sentimentality for some part of their youth. Furrings and purrings Mr T
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DeleteTigger, dear, I hear you! Though I do also have sympathy with the your peeps - there are just some things that must be preserved. Bear in mind that a lot of our appreciation of history is from the little things, the personal things, that folk generations earlier valued enough to keep. That said, quite often, a lot of it is just... dumpable!!! h&w, Y-a xxx
I am the least sentimental person I know, so is Bob and we see almost everything as dumpable. I am more a dumper than he is.. I have seen people torn to bits over the sentimental things they lost in Hurricane Ian, the contents of the house more than the loss of the THINGS inside. It is a good thing there are more people like them than like me, because there would be not things left for the future people to see. Museums would be out of buisness.
ReplyDeleteOh this is deeper than it first appears.. so where to start..
ReplyDeleteActually with thanks for the kind comments over at mine - Oscar (and me) are pulling through slowly; and we are buoyed by all the good wishes.
Which is a nice sentiment to carry with us - and not the same at all as sentimentality, which is ultimately a rather weak emotion, perhaps linked to a fear of what's inevitable (nor sure of that, but seems plausible). That love is so much more than sentimentality is certain.
Take care x
YAM over the last few months I have done so much merging purging things. I realized had no real sentimental value. Amazingly as I did it I realized I had not touched most of the things, especially clothes since I retired.
ReplyDeleteI have lovingly donated them to N. Raleigh Ministries Thrift store.
Hugs HiC
When dealing with the dissolution of a marriage and then putting aside the feelings all tied up in that to come back and care for my spouse, I discovered that Love is a deliberate act, that of caring for another, wanting them to succeed and valuing them. I could not change them, I could only change myself. I looked at the struggle and saw myself as a human, as a heart, as a mind, as a soul, as a body. I discovered what "Love with the capital ell" is (for me).
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DeleteI struggle sometimes....with all capitals and capitalisation...
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