Love

 Love, when we are trying to describe it, always takes form of an ideal. An ideal is a thought mechanism invented to regulate  the direction of human emotions, and is essential part of human conditioning, imposed through myth, legends and stories. Like the ideal of bravery directs violence, by specifying the time, place and a list of valid reason to resort to it to make it more useful to society, the ideal of love regulates the human passion. Ideal of love has evolved in such a way that it always sets standards of behaviour under the influence of passion much higher than what is possible for human beings to achieve. Which is clever, for nothing holds passion’s attention better than the impossibility of task.  And, also, for the obvious reasons of preventing the force of passion from turning against the society, the ideal of love always emphasises on self-sacrifice rather than pursuit by any means. No wonder unrequited love is exalted as the highest form of love. Therefore, the ideal love, in its purest form, is unattainable.

-Pulastye