is love a journey or a destination?

India
June 19, 2008 7:53pm CST
love is a difficult word to explain. you love some one and keep loving till there is a break up. you love your parents, your kids and even your pets. do you ever attain saturation? or is it that you always love somebody with the same intensity? do you halt at some point or does it go on for ever and ever?
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16 responses
@ettenaej (39)
• Philippines
20 Jun 08
for me Love is both a journey and a destination. it just a matter of choice. if you think that loving someone is like taking a long journey..well it is coz when you choose to love that person it is a journey to know him/her. you will pass a lot of struggle to stay in love and to stay together. it is a destination when you choose that person to spend the rest of your life. you will stick to that decision and be the best to the person whom you offer your life with. love is a journey and a destination that its up to you to choose.
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• India
20 Jun 08
very well said. i really appreciate your concept. nice comment. thank you for the response. i have tagged you as a positive. all the best for your future.
20 Jun 08
For me, there is no such thing called 'forever'...Everything has its end and that we have to understand...Love is a journey...For one thing, as you go on and on, you would realize and you would understand the essence of love...To feel pain is but one of the qualitative characteristics of love for without it, you won't be able to grow...It never was a destination for it would never end up, it would just go on and on...
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@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
20 Jun 08
I think love is just part of the journey in life, there is hurt involved but then there is hurt involved with out it and as people keep growing there is neve guarantees if anyone is your so called soulmate.
@kianli (546)
• China
20 Jun 08
Well, personally i think it's a combination of both. People say love is a journey because this love is not a destination. Before we find our Mr.Right or Mrs. Right, there's a long way ahead isn't it? This kind of love is actually a journey that helps you go further next time so that you can reach a destination. Some say love is destination, because it's something we are looking forward to. Whether this love is successful or not, in that period of time it's your destination. That's my understanding. Just have a nice day! I'm marching towards my destination! :-)
• India
20 Jun 08
well, kianli.thank you for that response. it is indeed the mind set of most of us. your understanding is appreciable. keep on marching. i have rated you as positive. all the best for your future.
@Shawchert (1094)
• United States
20 Jun 08
Love is both a journey and a destination. Love goes on, even if it doesn't feel the same. Love for your family I think is very much different love from a friend or the person you are in a relationship. This word is so hard to explain because it is different for everyone.
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• India
20 Jun 08
love has various forms. probably it may take more than a life time to understand these. thank you for your response.
@kerriannc (4279)
• Jamaica
20 Jun 08
There is many types of love. You love your parents different than your kids, husband or friend. So love cannot be saturated. Once you practice love in your life time then it will becomes apart of you that it does not hurt. Well if you have a dishonest lover who thrive on giving you pain then you will feel pain. Your children hurting you is not taking away that love from him/her if there was one in the first place. I have a sister who hurt me and I still love her. I love my boyfriend who mess up my life with this virus thing but he is human. So I still love him. Although sometimes I tell myself it is because I cannot do better.lol. My friend practising love is good. So don't stop. It brings a smile on your face everytime. All the best.
• India
20 Jun 08
okay kerriannc, i think i will keep practicing. let us hope that the smile on face is maintained. thank you for the response. i have rated you as positive. enjoy.
• Philippines
20 Jun 08
I think it is a journey... full of adventures and excitement... that sometimes you want to go on with the challenge and sometimes you want to stop. Thus, it is a self learning process and whatever it takes it serve as ab experience...
• India
20 Jun 08
there is always something or the other to learn from life. and love is a part of life. so, anyways, it enriches our experience. all the best for your future.
@subha12 (18441)
• India
20 Jun 08
its a journey io must say. till the time you have not found it, its a destination taht you want to reach. after taht its continuous process and journey.
• India
20 Jun 08
thank you for the response.
• Philippines
24 Jun 08
For me,it's a journey.In life,you will love more and more people as you meet new ones in the long run.
• India
24 Jun 08
thank you for the response.
@maquisa (316)
• Philippines
20 Jun 08
in my own as long as your not yet into marriage itz a journey lots of trials and sacrifies...but if your in a marriege itz destination hahaha...you have choose the one for you and destined to be with that person for your whole life...and i really don't go for annulment nor divorced.
• India
20 Jun 08
thank you for the response.
• Nepal
20 Jun 08
love is journey not a destination as she has been finishing when approaching marriage so love is the journey not destination
• India
20 Jun 08
thank you for the response.
@celticeagle (159936)
• Boise, Idaho
20 Jun 08
There are many kinds of love. The love you feel for your family, your kids, your wife and your friends. All different. And, i think love does change in intensity and sometimes it stops. The best goes on and on for ever and ever. I think that type is rare. It is work and love needs to be nurtured. It really depends on the individuals and how they interconnect.
• India
20 Jun 08
thank you for the response and happy my lotting.
• United States
24 Jun 08
Love is a journey, or at least a major part of the larger journey. It is both constant and changable--a paradox, if you will. I don't think one ever loses someone who has truly been loved. They care a part of that person with them always, even if the actual journey in life has seen a parting of the ways.
• India
26 Jun 08
thank you for the response.
• China
20 Jun 08
Appreciate and subsume the people u love and the ones love u~
• China
20 Jun 08
Appreciate and subsume is the journey The people u love and love u is the destination
• India
20 Jun 08
well catherine, you have done well to assign to different subjects to the two different parts of the question. praiseworthy. thank you for your response.
• United States
20 Jun 08
It depends on what kind of love you are talking about. The love of your family to me is forever. Husbands and wives should have that kind of love but sometimes things change. I have been married to my husband for 35 years and couldn't picture my life without him. I look at my love as a journey that we travel down the road and sometimes we come upon rocks that we stumble on but we have always made it over the stumbles and we are closer for it.
• India
20 Jun 08
yes sunshinelady, all of us do cross rocks on which we stumble. but it is the joint success which is sweet in taste and gives us the encouragement to go on and on. keep up the good work.
@patzel88 (3310)
• Philippines
20 Jun 08
with the presence of god, yes.
• India
20 Jun 08
well yes. without the presence of the almighty everything is impossible. even a single step can not be taken.