The Biggest Mystery: Love

This may be a post-valentines day thought or maybe just frustrations of my life but either way love is a reoccurring theme everywhere and it seems to run our lives. It’s connected to everything we do and something has changed in our generation and it doesn’t have the worth it used to. People are so quick to say the phrase “I love you” and even quicker to jump into a sexual relationship. What has changed with us? Why do people use the world love with so little emotion so often and why don’t people show this so called love in their actions? Does it go back to the debate about technology and how we’re becoming lazy? It’s very possible. People can just text each other “meaningful” words or send it in a facebook message rather than face to face. If you don’t look into someone’s eyes when you’re telling them how you feel I don’t think there’s really any worth in that. Love is the strongest element of… everything, basically. It shouldn’t be so everyday and typical; there should be a lot of thought put into the concept of love.
Also, I believe love without sex is possible and I’ve seen situations more than a few times where there’s sex without love. So along with love losing it’s worth sex has, even more so. It seems to me that it’s getting out of hand and should be a bigger deal than it is to a lot of people.
I’m reading Queen City Jazz and The Shakers aren’t allowed to have sex because they want everyone to be equal. That concept is what initially triggered all of my thoughts about sex and it’s worth. People make it to be such a great thing but it causes so many problems because it’s taken for granted so often. It does cause inequality between everyone. Certain people are thought of as “better” because they’re hotter and more sexually appealing. Not everyone has the same taste but the majority of people would want to be with a model rather than an “average” office worker and that puts us at different levels.
I feel like this was all on the same topic but a lot of different angles that got brought together and don’t really flow but with the sexual themes and idea of love in basically all of the books we’ve read.