[Vision2020] Love

[Jeff Harkins]

  The comments on the "love" value have been interesting and 
thought-provoking.

Many of you seem disappointed that the values lack "precision" and/or 
"perfection" in the definitions - or perhaps fail to match your 
"feelings" about love (or any of the other values).

Couple of thoughts -

I too have felt the definitions have not been as robust as I would like, 
but upon reflection, I think the definitions are intended to encourage 
conversation about the values and to gain perspectives about how our 
beliefs might legitimately differ from others.

As well, it seems to me that the whole point of thinking about these 
"values" is to identify our own feelings about who we are and to be able 
to appreciate how we might alter our own self image.  Case in point, if 
you viewed the TV spot for love (entitled Everlasting Love), the message 
communicates (at least to me) a depth of love that transcends age, 
gender, experience, wisdom, status - e.g., the "love between father and 
daughter" -  For me, I have a very different feeling about love and my 
relationship with my soul mate.

The quotations and lyrics you all have cited about love have been 
terrific - very diverse.

Here is one that has always been "interesting" to me:

"It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, strength, comeliness of shape or 
amplest merit, that woman's love can win, or long inherit; but what it 
is, hard is to say, harder to hit" [John Milton - Samson Agonistes]

That said,

Isn't love a feeling?
Isn't love warm?
Isn't love personal?
Isn't love a "bonding"?