Emotional Dilemma- LOVE

DISCLAIMER: This blog is about LOVE.

Life really is full of surprises… From emotions we thought we’ve already conquered, to sudden realizations that it has always been there all along… just waiting for our conscious mind to unleash it… and our body to feel it…

This time it’s about LOVE…

“Love is any of a number of emotions related to a sense of strong affection and attachment. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure (“I loved that meal”) to intense interpersonal attraction (“I love my wife”). This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states.
As an abstract concept, love usually refers to a deep, ineffable feeling of tenderly caring for another person. Even this limited conception of love, however, encompasses a wealth of different feelings, from the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love to the nonsexual emotional closeness of familial and platonic love to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love.” – Source Wikipedia.

Most of the time, if not all of the time, we see the world as we are and not as it is. The above definition of love is true for me. That’s how I see it.

In my world, the being of being in love is a complex emotion and action I could not even consistently define. It is constantly evolving over time within a specific time frame. It changes from mutual understanding… to admiration… to infatuation… to lust… to attraction… and so on with no definite meaning…

Until my greatest realization last night…

I was asked what’s stopping me from pursuing one business partner and taking that relationship to a more romantic level. Obviously, I have a crush on her and we are a perfect match, as some would see it. And then it hit me…

Love for me is a commitment…

A combination of emotions and actions we show and do to the other person we are committed to love… for the rest of our lives…

“All of us are imperfect beings, but when we love someone, we are 100% committed to grow with them despite all those imperfections.”

The question is not about what is stopping me… There wouldn’t be any question if earlier on I realized my definition of love… It’s all about commitment…

And I realized, I am already committed to the one and only love of my life…

Note: As a private person, I rarely talk about my love life. And when I talk about it, I only share it with a chosen few. These people are my friends and business partners whom I trust and respect. They listen to understand and not to react. I sincerely apologize for not giving any details. I’d rather keep it that way.

The only intention of this blog is to share my greatest realization about love last night…

Thank you Ludwig, Katie and Kate… for listening… for letting me express my thoughts… for being there when I cried at least 3 droplets of tears… no pun intended…

I really appreciate it…