BLOG #3: Platonic Love: A love that the world needs today





 PLATONIC LOVE: A love that the world needs today


     In today's world, Platonic love in its modern popular sense is an affectionate relationship into which the sexual element does not enter, especially in cases where one might easily assume otherwise. Whenever I think about why we are here on this planet, the best answer I can come up with is to love one another. Love is, by far, the most beautiful and mind blowing emotion we can experience. Love is a battlefield, It has its ups and downs. It may lift you up, It may bring you down.It might make you the happiest person in the world, but it can also put you through rocks.Some of us may easily fancy someone especially when we are captivated by their physical appearance, but the thing is we should love someone with all of one's heart and soul not just because they are the apples of our eyes. Platonic love is the purest form of love. Thus, to be loved with a kind of platonic love is a love that is genuine, When we love genuinely, we can be in love with someone and not desire for things that will satisfy and fulfill our needs.

        Platonic love is named after Plato, He is arguably the single most influential philosopher of all time. His works extend to virtually area of philosophy. Moreover, Plato is one of the great philosophers who helped to lay the foundations of the whole Western Philosophy. Athens is the place wherein Plato was born and brought into existence the year Pericles died, was six years younger than Isocrates and died at the age of eighty-four. There are varying degrees of controversy over which of Plato’s works are authentic,and in what order they were written, due to their antiquity and the manner of their preservation through time. Nonetheless, his earliest works are generally regarded as the most reliable of the ancient sources.

    Plato introduced his theory of Platonic Love. According to Plato, every human being is an unstable mix of body and soul, and each these parts is governed by two kinds of love. The body craves for desires and falls to lust, which forces the human to create physical attachments to worldly entities.On the other hand, the soul cares only for a spiritual kind of love that transcends beyond mere sexual desires.
         
   I firmly believe that love is not measured by the beauty, but what matters most is what is within. When we think of Platonic Love today, I can say that it is hard to experience, not because we think more with our loins and less with our heads, but because of the restrictions imposed on us by society. Platonic Love is the kind of love that the world needs today, in which one man loved another because of his virtue, rather than because of his physical attractions. People tend to diminish the real meaning of love because of their lust. Besides, Love is not about sexual contact that expects to fulfill our needs, but it is a commitment for better and for worse. As a youth, let us not be blinded because of love, we should not look for the prettiest of them all but instead wait for the purest form of love, which is Platonic Love.

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 Above all, Rarely do people experience the Platonic Love from the center of their soul. The more frequent of events, people fall in love with the potentiality of what they think a person can give them. Loving to give is a rarity among a world of loving to get. This is the difference between Platonic Love and lust. When you are truly in love, the feeling is always that you want to give the person you love everything. The heart center only knows of giving because when we love, we are filled with the essence of life. This essence tells us we are powerful enough to create life and expand naturally in the energy of giving. (Lorenzana,2017) 

References:

Emrys Westacott (2017, May 28)

 Bailey White (2016, May 28) 

 The Center for Hellenic Studies / 3100 Whitehaven Street, NW. Washington, DC 2008

Jamie Leelo (2017,March 7) 

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