Ice Breaker #12: Do you view love as an emotional feeling or a duty?

it's a mix of emotion, bio-chemistry, duty, passion, experience and so on and on and on;)...to simplify into this only two things is like taking the Eifell tower out of France...

anyhow, love can be a duty in a good way...or a bad way...depending on how the one who experience it and react to it...
So, how do you view it? ;)

hmmmm thats a nice topic....

id say that love is a feelin ... if u ask me hat feelin...:confused: it got so much to it :D :blush: it could be happiness , or sorrow, when it comes to love sometimes there is happiness in sorrow also....love is definately an emotional feelin...but ya definately it has some duties attached to it :D

Seems like some one is fallen in love huh ? :blush: ..;)

Nice quote i found abt love... some may not be all that relavent...:D :cool:
A to Z about Love

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.

Choose the one who loves you, and not whom you love.

Don't forget to love yourself.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Just three words, "I Love You" , but they mean world to everybody.

Kindness is love in disguise.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."

Nothing can be as beautiful as falling in Love.

Offerings of love should be made without any expectations.

Precious possessions that a man can ever have, is a woman's heart.

Quotes are peoples way to express their experience of love.

Rose is the symbol of love.

Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death.

There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.

Usually a man in love cannot be harsh.

Victory of a heart is the most priced possession.

Within you, I lose myself; Without you, I find myself, searching to be lost again.

X-ray can not reveal a love struck heart.

Yes, is the ultimate word for love.

Zodiac signs are insignificant when it comes to love.

I am wondering how love can be a duty? If it was to be so, there would most certainly be a law in Germany to that effect... There isn't one - so, love is not a duty.

That is pretty funny Siddhartha.

I'd have to agree with Mr.Ree on this one. Love is both an emtional feeling and a duty.

Just as you feel love, I feel it as a duty to strengthen, protect and preserve it. If it was just a feeling, everybody would be loved and nobody would know why.

Nice reply Siddhartha.

Apart from the fact that those who love and those who feel loved rarely see reason.

Yeah emotions are difficult to reason with. Especially something as vague as love.

One of sreehari quotes :
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
//One of my favorites in the list there

I feel the way I do about it becuase love is so diverse and abstract that if I don't apply duty to my feelings, It just becomes words.

I think its both.. it usually start with the emotion but in a long run, as you continue to nurture it, it became a duty without us knowing it.

I like to share this verse from Kahlil Gibran

"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but form itself.
Love possesses not or would it be possessed.
For love is sufficient unto love."

anyhow, it's always nice to stir some conflict in a thread:D...
if we look from a different angle, to love sometimes IS a duty;)...it's a duty for citizens to love their country...it's a duty for the parents to love their children...if not them, who should we place the duty?:D...http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/24.gif :thumb:

You have a point with regards to loving one's country... I consider it a duty to show love to a country. :p But still, love and duty are two separate things as opposed to love is a duty. ;)

When it comes to parents to their children... that can't be so!! :eek: I don't think parents love their children because it's their duty... it is only natural for parents to feel affection/love towards their children. And they are willing to take up additional responsibilities/duties for them out of love. Not the other way around. ;)

Anyways, you're really funny.. and thanks for your attempt in being contrary. :D

But still, love and duty are two separate things as opposed to love is a duty. ;)heck no!:D...in every love, there's a duty to be carried...without a duty, love will just be meaningless..

When it comes to parents to their children... that can't be so!! :eek: I don't think parents love their children because it's their duty... it is only natural for parents to feel affection/love towards their children. And they are willing to take up additional responsibilities/duties for them out of love. Not the other way around. ;)isn't there's a law for the child support?;)...sometimes we have to enforce a duty onto the heartless parents:D...

And ofcourse, you do know I wasn't talking about that. You should wear eyeglasses --> :cool: I'm not blind:D...it just my English wasn't that good :( ...

You do remember our discussion on Sushi and Sashimi, right? :p :Dnooo!!...it still haunted me sometimes in the night:D...

so if it's that kind of way, like the issue of sushi and sashimie, then (I hate to say this :D)...you're right:mad:...

Ah, so you're saying that your English is now good? :D :D ;)how come? :confused: ...I can't even spell Misisiisippie until now:(...

Ofcourse. ;) :D :wave: :mad:

Because, dear mrRee... you used the word "wasn't" ;) :D
"Was" is the past form of "Is" (present tense) ... so when you said, "my English wasn't that good" ... you're saying, you being not good in English is no longer true (at the present).I'll keep it in my long-term memory...but I doubt I can retreat the information back :D...a new lesson for me today...

making love is a different story:D...Ofcourse, ofcourse... ;) :DSeriously?

You really think that making love is not a duty?

I know of an army general who won a divorce and generous compensation from his wife because she never had sex with him in all years of their married life.

In ways, making love is a duty... ;) :thumb:

i agree by what sid has said( Hi Sid, :wave: ).
Love is an emotion but once u experience it, it has to be dutifully nurtured.
PS: "Love is at the core of every activity because of the very nature of human being"

You have to be able to call it when you determine that love is failing with someone, but, until that occurs, it is your duty to pursue it for as long as necessary!