Baby don’t hurt me… don’t hurt me… no more.
Sorry, I couldn’t resist. The actual question is in reference to a peer who said she didn’t know what love was. I was appalled and tried to give some sort of general answer, but I don’t think she found it that satisfying. I asked her what it meant when her parents said told her that they love her, and she stated that it was something that parents just say to their children, and the children mumble the meaningless statement back. Tragic. Though, maybe she is just thinking about it more. How many people actually have a grasp on what love is?
I don’t think it helps that we use one word to express something that the Greeks and Jewish expressed in multiple words. Through brief, possibly unreliable, online research, there seems to be basically 4 main types as described in the other languages:
- Familial love, committed; affection
- True friendship, “platonic”
- Deliberate but unconditional; selfless, sacrificial
- Impulsive, often romantic, deep appreciation
Obviously these do exist, yet in English we’ll usually express these ideas with degrees of like and love.
For something so important to a Christian, how is it that somebody I interact with nearly every day cannot see what Love is? This bothers me a bit.
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