LOVE
AS A VALUE
A value is also defined as a belief about what is right and
wrong and what is important in life.
A longer definition says: Your
values are the beliefs and principles that you believe are important in the way
that you live and work. They determine your priorities, and guide your
decisions and the way you act towards others. When the things that you do, and
the way that you behave, match your values, life is usually good.
Among the various sets of values
---- personal, social, moral, religious and cultural are most important.
Love is one of the most important
personal as also social value. To love somebody is natural. But more important
is to love the whole world including the earth, its inhabitants, nature, and all other
things that exists within its arena.
To love is to be friendly,
affectionate, intimate, adorable, enchanting, engaging, winsome, endearing and
warm-hearted.
Unfortunately, we are living in a
divided world. Religions, Castes, customs, socio-political conflicts, various
moral theories, superstitions, selfishness, competitive spirit, lust for power,
vicious disloyalty and disharmony in the various fields of life breed enmity
and antagonism.
The remedy lies in adopting love as
an overall existential value.
To quote the English writer and poet
Maria Jane Jewsbury (1800-1833) ”Love is the purification of the heart from
self; it strengthens and ennobles the character; gives higher motive and nobler
aim to every action of life.
She adds: The power to love truly
and devotedly is the noblest gift with which a human being can be endowed.
Finally, let us accept love as a
most sacred universal value to curb and stop all sorts of hatred and mutual
discords.
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G.R.Kanwal
2nd November 2024
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