True Love the Existence of True Love

True Love

The existence of true love has been a debate among writers, authors, and philanthropists for years. There are many things in this world that we as people share together, but nothing else can bare, mend, or even heal like love. Every place we go and everything we see has in some point in time been touched by some form of love. It is through stories and poems that we indeed do find the existence of true love. I believe that stories and poems provide us with the necessary evidence to prove that true love does exist and we will analyze these poems and stories in the following work to indeed provide evidence of its existence. We find that true love does exist and it is real, when we analyze the writings of those who are most known for acknowledging it. In our world today, society explains love as being a childish feeling, like something that a child feels for a puppy, an ecstatic emotion that one can sometimes not explain. But in the end, love not only is a feeling, but a desire that very few people have. "An abstract emotion or feeling that is profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person is what can be called true love" (Oxford Dictionary). Love cannot be seen, touched, or held physically, yet, it is one of the most powerful and meaningful things that exists.

Although love is sometimes referred as being something that can bring distress instead of bliss, it is this excitement, this emotional roller coaster that makes true love true. It's a feeling that seems to rarely come into a person's life, but when it does appear, it comes intensely. This feeling about the immortality of love and its true existence is demonstrated in Raymond Carver's (1989) What We Talk About When We Talk About Love when the main character Mel loses the woman he loves and now wants to want to love again, "And the terrible thing, the terrible thing is, but the good thing too, the saving grace, you might say, is that if something happened to one of us tomorrow, I think... The other person, would grieve for a while, you know, but then the surviving party would go out and love again, have someone else soon enough" (Carver). Mel makes this comment about midway through the novel, after telling everyone that he'll interpret what love really is to them. Instead of actually explaining love to people, Mel instead questions love even further by questioning its validity and the mystery that surrounds the notion of true love -- where love goes when one person ceases to love the other and how it's possible to fall in love again with someone new. He loves being in love, and although it might seem a bit mysterious and a little difficult at times, he points out that everyone has felt this at one point or another.. Mel is truly bothered by the mysteries that he expresses in this quote; he doesn't even know whether what he says is "terrible" or the "saving grace." This quote reveals Mel's struggle to understand love and his fear that the feeling of love is indeed true, but that it can be transferred from one person to another.