Is sacrifice a form of love too?
By Kevin
@excellence7 (3698)
Mauritius
5 responses
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
19 Sep 15
Of course, love does not mean capturing by force. And it also does never mean, love me because I love you. This is the closest I can get to explain that love can mean sacrifice.
I mean, say you love a girl (or anyone else, it should not matter, I choose girl-boy thing as it is more easy to explain). But the girl does not love you and even does not like you. If you love the girl, you dont go pestering her to accept you. You respect her, her individuality and her preferences. She moves on with her life and you with yours. As you let her go, as you let her live her own life and you live your life, and if you do really love her, you keep loving her.
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@excellence7 (3698)
• Mauritius
19 Sep 15
Powerful. And this is what I do - loving in silence, despite reality around me is different. It hurts but somehow I have fallen in love even with the pain.
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
19 Sep 15
@excellence7 It hurts but somehow I have fallen in love even with the pain.
Be aware, "love with pain" can lead to self-obsession and can become dangerous. Manage the love with pain, overcome it, and if you succeed, there will be no hurt and that will make love more powerful.
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@excellence7 (3698)
• Mauritius
19 Sep 15
@thesids I know what you mean but I live in my mind and these days I have been through a lot. I am quite helpless about this one. I have to fall in love with the pain. I have to surrender.
@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
20 Sep 15
Yes anything that requires either of those two I believe is a form of love.
To let someone go is truly the highest form of love..it is also a form of sacrifice.
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@skysnap (20152)
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19 Sep 15
Not necessary. Sacrifice is something greater than love. The person who sacrifices himself does it forgetting his self worth. And he does that so that the other person could live better. I think this is one reason love can't be associated with it. Because self love stops people from making sacrifices.
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@excellence7 (3698)
• Mauritius
19 Sep 15
I read something alike before and I truly respect this view. I will certainly agree with you on this one - sacrifice is something greater than love. But I will add also that not everyone will understand your sacrifice and not everyone will feel what you have felt to reach to such a resolution. But anyway, we are not here to justify why we do what you do until we believe we are right in our heart and mind.
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
19 Sep 15
Sacrifice is something greater than love. - I would disagree. You cannot sacrifice anything unless you love the one whom you are sacrificing to.
The person who sacrifices himself does it forgetting his self worth. - Selfless ness cannot come unless there is self somewhere which again implies, you do need to love yourself.
Because self love stops people from making sacrifices. - It is the ego, fear of losing that stops people from sacrificing. Not the love. So why blame it on love?
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@excellence7 (3698)
• Mauritius
28 Sep 15
That's another perspective of seeing it. A really nice one. I think you are right. I wouldn't sacrifice if I didn't love the person. But if I love the person, I would sacrifice; even though it would be the hardest thing to do on earth. But her happiness mean everything to me.
@else34 (13515)
• New Delhi, India
20 Sep 15
@excellence,love is all about giving and giving only.Love gives,never takes.And if sometimes it takes,it is only because it wants to give pleasure.And when you give something,you sacrifice it.
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@excellence7 (3698)
• Mauritius
20 Sep 15
Thank you for sharing your views. I think love doesn't take at all. Never. It only gives.
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