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In search of love

In our lives, magic happens in the space between us

By sara trifPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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In search of love
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As I came into contact with the world of reality, the world of love that I had imagined existed, where there was a predestined romance for each of us, looked more away. Even when interesting things did occur, they frequently had no significance. Even when you wanted it to, a relationship with another person didn't always result in anything.

I can recall a dozen occasions when I first met someone and had an immediate connection, or even more instances when I thought I had developed a deeper relationship with someone only for it to turn out to be meaningless in the end. I was left wondering what it all meant when things didn't work out with that particular person.

What could I point to if I couldn't believe in a mystical connection or an intriguing moment? What was the relationship to another individual? What routes ought I to take and which ought I to avoid?

Perhaps we have no genuine understanding of what love is. It is something elusive and illusive, as thrilling and elusive as spiritual insight and unadulterated joy. However, a few of us swore we could sense it and communicate with it.

In search of love

You can't look for love, which is the truth about looking for it. You can't expect to find a raging connection and earth-shattering dedication every time you go out.

However, we can't help but think about love if we want it to be in our lives. When you're at the bar, the gym, or just walking down the street, you can't help but think about it if you truly want a partner and affection.

The finest thing we can do while looking for love is make an effort to cultivate it within. We ought to take a more inward-focused approach, working as the curators of a museum for our beliefs and conceptions about love.

Even when the person we desire is absent, when we discover love within ourselves, we may have the fortitude to live a life filled with it.

Love Is An Effort

The basic dedication to it is the polar opposite of that thrilling, earth-shattering love. What exactly does it mean to be committed to love, when we look more closely?

Being dedicated entails working inside it rather than attempting to manage it. Every relationship experiences periods of intimacy and distance, adjusting as circumstances and times change and develop over time.

Nobody can maintain the same spark that existed in the early years of a relationship or keep it the same way it was when they first met their partner.

Finding new ways to show your love while also changing together is what love is all about. It also entails a dedication to developing personal strategies for engaging with the world with love in your heart. You can discover that you are restricting the love you can offer and receive from the world if you put everything else aside for your relationship.

We all require love, but in various forms and at various points in our lives.

We frequently need to redefine ourselves and our relationships several times, perhaps even a dozen times, as we and the world evolve. This is because we live in a changing world.

Love Is In The Distance

In the film "Before Sunrise," a character played by Julie Delpy attempts to clarify what God is.

She remarks to Ethan Hawke that there is magic in the void between two people who are attempting to speak. She is commenting on the general functioning of the human species while also making a meta-comment regarding her interaction with Hawke's character.

In our lives, magic happens in the space between us. We create enchantment (and even love) in our lives when we sincerely try to comprehend and communicate with another person.

The characters' easy-going, fluid dialogue allows them to completely communicate their thoughts and worldviews to one another. The movie is incredibly refreshing because they aren't putting on a show or trying to impress one another.

Love is a verb, not a noun in the world that the concept that it exists in the space between opens up for us.

Love is making a commitment to one another and to ourselves, making the effort to communicate and maintain our relationships.

The next time you consider your own quest for love, keep up the work and keep cultivating it within. It will eventually pay off.

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