What is it all about?

I know I am not the first nor the last that will ask this question but many things I have been 'bouncing' into recently have been asking this question and prompting me to think about this topic.



What exactly is this emotion called love and how does it manifest itself in our lives and relationships. Two old hobbies of mine I recently encountered again got me to thinking. One of them is Greek mythology and the other is zouk music...related? I am sure in some bizarre way.

As a child growing up I was very fond of Greek and Roman mythology and went to great pains to familiarize myself with the Olympic Pantheon and all the myths and characters of that era. One such myth which I was reminded of by a friend in Brazil, Henrique, who was using it to create a discussion on film and the psychological aspects of film, is the myth of Eros and Psyche.

In short this is a myth about the most beautiful mortal - Psyche, whom the goddess of love, Aphrodite\Venus is jealous of and she asks her son, the God of Love, Cupid\Eros to shoot Psyche with one of his proverbial arrows so that she will fall in love with the ugliest man on earth. However, Eros falls in love with Psyche himself and proceeds to marry her and whisk her away to a secret castle where he visits her, impregnates her and meets her under dark so that she can never know who he is. One day her sisters, who are also jealous of her come to see her and fill her head with lies about Eros and convince her to try and kill Eros in his sleep. When she sees him and his beauty she cannot and a drop of wax from her candle awakens him and he flees.

Psyche is then sorry for her stupidity and lack of trust and she goes through a variety of symbolic trials to try and win Eros' love back....



whew....what does this say about love, our faces in relationships, our identity, trust, jealousy, envy,. the games, the trials, what we are willing to sacrifice, put up with and more for the ability to be near to another soul? makes me think



The second is that recently I have been surfing YouTube a lot and found a lot of new zouk videos on there and that has rekindled my love for zouk which I discovered as a teenager studying French at the Alliance Francaise in Port of Spain and visiting the French Embassy's library. One of the songs, in my opinion, has a gripping melody, by Marvin called ' Amour sans loi' - Love beyond laws and the chorus is deep...really deep and made me wonder if these sort of sentiments and depth of passion and love for another soul is really possible as it has evaded me to date.



The chorus says:



je vendrais mon âme,( I would sell my soul)

j'affronterais les drames (I would face the dramas)

je donnerais tout pour être avec (I would give up everything to be with you)

toi ils peuvent m'oublier (they can forget me)

ils peuvent bien m'ordonner (they can give me orders)

je donnerais tout pour être avec toi (I would give up everything to be with you)

(the video for the song is below in the previous entry)



Whew...what words...quels paroles...makes me think?? does it make you