Within
the romantic confines of a relationship, there exist
two feelings that appear similar, but have monumental differences:
love and lust.
Love
is the romantic ideal that drives many to continue through their daily lives,
that directors portray in epic films, and that children read about in Disney
stories.
Lust
is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, an emotionally expensive imitation of love.
The
differences are often blurred and concealed by the euphoric effect of each
feeling, but when all is said and done, each feeling certainly leaves you with
a different result.
Love
is a marathon, lust is a sprint. Within love, passion intertwines
with desire, care, and concern felt with different intensities over longer
periods of time. Lust, on the other hand, is a shorter intense swirling vortex
of pure passion and sexual desire. Love is caring deeply for someone - a
meaningful feeling; not merely a common physical attraction, but an
intense emotional interest fused with passion and attraction. Sexual desire is
merely a part of love, not the driving force as is with lust.
Unfortunately,
when physical attraction declines within a lusting relationship, the entire
basis for the relationship disappears. When a love affair ends, recovery is
long, arduous and emotionally painful. The fallout from a lusting relationship
is usually short and rarely penetrates as deeply into a person’s psyche as it
does with love.
To
say that love is a legitimate feeling and lust is not is unjustified as both
occur naturally within the human spectrum of emotions. Lust is simply the
quenching of another human need. Without lust, chances are that your parents
wouldn’t have gotten together and you wouldn’t have been born! It also serves
as a reference point which allows us to elevate love to the precious pedestal
we grant it. Lust is the culmination of innate feelings for sexual satisfaction
and attraction while love is the result of the need for both emotional and
physical satisfaction.
For me love is something eternal and lust is something inescapable
ReplyDeleteAnd we need a little bit of both in our lives ;)
well said Ritika! :)
DeleteLove is eternal and lust is transitional I guess...
ReplyDeleteI feel the same too, Preethi!
DeleteWhat lasts till the end is love! :)
Ah...I like when it is a mixture of the two... PASSIONATE EXPLOSIVE LOVE is what you get :)
ReplyDeleteAhaan! I can understand what you mean! :) ;)
Deletei too like it as a complete balanced mixture and btw nice post
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