First of all I would like to thank earnestly to bros Night_Hawk and Abbasi for their kind words and well wishes. Secondly to bro Raja I would like to forward my greetings to you as well Walikum Salam. Raja bro there’s no question of the return of spring here in my heart because I’m a person who prefers to dwell in the valley and gardens of romanticism so there’s no point of yearning for that special feeling.
Like the rest of the respondents I rather have a sceptic frame of mind though on rational level when my mind tends to scrutinise the objective realities of this feeling which exists between a man and woman. Although majority of us including the influential group of poets and literati around the world tends to visualise the feeling of love with the spectacles of emotions, burning passions which later results in exaggeration of feelings and intellectual output of those thinkers.
I myself used to have that sort of emotional predilection towards love for a long period of time until I came across some of the rare literature of some gigantic thinkers and later after some deliberation and rationalisation of those critical points I had to restructure and reform my rational views for love. Firstly there’s a problem of dualism between the independent entities of mind and body of an individual according to the Cartesian logic of Rene Descartes which tends to blur the reality of my emotions because of the duality of the above mentioned entities.
According to the theory of this dualism mind tends to conceive those realities of life which are not sometimes become correspondent to the actions of our physical bodies. Physical entity normally follow its carnal and base requirements such as lust, reproduction and personal intimacy whilst the mind (of highly educated and refined individuals) desires to tread on those routes which most of the times have nothing to do with the requirements of its physical counterpart. Probably this might has become one of the main reasons for Man’s dishonesty, egocentricity and selfishness because normally he chose to love his opposite sexual partner to fulfil his basic needs and also to appease his ego, which has been rightly indicated by the stalwarts like Plato in his Symposium and Aristotle in “Nicomachean Ethics” in antiquity.
For early Greek scholarly masters and later generations of thinkers this concept of utility and deriving comfort for one’s intimate partner can’t become a durable and ideal relationship because of the transient nature of those qualities and desires of loving partners. To overcome this narrow minded and selfish nature of Eros or sensual love Marsilio Ficino (d. 1499 C.E) coined the term of Platonic Love based on one of the dialogue of Plato in Symposium in relation to its prophetess Diotima, which is however devoid of the feelings of any sensuality and sexual relations among the lovers of two opposite sexes or between the same sexes of human beings.
