As the month of February, also known as the ‘month of love,’ I want to pose a question for the PV student body to answer, “What is love in 2006?”In the past, the L/H and A/E section published stories that simply dealt with cheating, STDs, how to find a good man and so forth. But maybe the focus should be on what is our individual perception of what love truly is.
Merriam Webster defines love as a “a strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties, an affection felt by lovers based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests.” Webster continues to define love as also having “the fatherly concern of God for mankind.”
This definition is fine, but isn’t it true that only the individual can define what love means to them?
Many New Year’s resolutions were made as the clock struck midnight on Jan. 1, and among those were many that concerned obtaining a magical love for the new year.
Is love defined as having butterflies in your stomach at the mere thought of the person you care about, or is it the five pounds that you dropped in a week because you can’t eat?
In a relationship, is love holding hands across campus and professing to the world ‘this is the person I love,’ or is it the opening of car doors by a ladies man and then a kiss on the cheek before he says “Are you in okay?”
During the rough times of a courtship, is love when one gets hurts and forgives, then takes on the same hurt again and again and is still able to say ‘I Love you?’ Or is love shown to self by determining if this relationship is really good for you and your well-being by leaving the situation altogether?
Is love displayed only by the physical attraction between two people, when a conversation can’t be held more than a few minutes the sexual beast in the both of you has to be released? Better yet, is sex love?
Or, is love calm and patient and able to allow God to direct its path?
There are so many definitions as to what love is, but I want to challenge PV to define what love is.
Send your responses to: panther@pvamu.edu.