Lifestyle Seminar, here today: Love

[isnotimportant.livejournal.com]

The professor has, astonishingly enough, interested the mice in cricket, and they've taken jobs as umpires. At the moment Frankie is at the bowler's end, and Benjy is at square leg. Occasional croaks and squeaks can be heard from the table.

Oh, look, it's time for our Lifestyle seminar again. As you're aware, our topic for today is love. Please share your insights with the group, and we'll see what we can learn from each other about this complex topic.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/___lily_evans_/]

Well there's the difference - 'declarations of love' are quite meaningless. But truly loving someone will show in one's actions.

[ihatedenmark.livejournal.com]

And if a woman loved a man for twenty years, made many declarations to that intent, bore him a son, followed him wherever he went on business, showed him the intimate physical bounty that love brings on a nightly basis -- and then was happily married to his brother not two months after her first husband's death? Pray, would you call that love?

[http://users.livejournal.com/___lily_evans_/]

It doesn't matter what I would call it. Who am I to judge? Only that woman can know why she did what she did and how she felt about either man. There could be a myriad of other factors in play in that situation, especially depending on the time period. Perhaps she needed to be married for the protection of herself or her child. Perhaps she felt that her first husband who loved her would want her to move on and find happiness rather than mourning indefinitely. Perhaps she is not as 'happily married' to the second man as she appears to be.

[isnotimportant.livejournal.com]

That's an intriguing position, that another person's state of love is not accessible to the outsider. That could be a topic for a whole seminar in its own right.