So I’m going to take a shot at blogging about this subject, despite the fact that I have not gotten a chance to finish the entire book; I’m about half way through. The subject of love was discussed pretty heavily last night during class, and I wasn’t really sure what I thought about everything that was said. I mean, I agree that there is definitely an element of longing in love, at least in eros, but I guess I just can’t fully agree that longing is love or vice versa. To say that all longing is love seems too broad a statement, and I think it labels feelings as ‘love’ which maybe aren’t. I guess what I’m trying to say is that you can long for someone and not necessarily love them, and you can love someone and not necessarily always long for them. Longing doesn’t necessarily equal love; it may be interchangeable with ‘desire’, but not ‘love’. Love is much more than just a feeling; you don’t always feel love towards your parents, but it doesn’t mean you don’t love them. Just because the feeling of love isn’t present doesn’t mean that love has left the scene. I guess that’s why I can’t agree with the idea of equating longing with love because that seems to imply that where there is no longing, or feeling, there is no love.
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