My Reflection Of My Philosophy Of Love

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I at this time would like to bring attention to another part of my philosophy – love. I recognize that an attempt to examine love is connected with a lot mystery. Love is too deep and is not measurable, and we can’t completely explore it. I think that for most people love defines personal happiness. If I do not feel loved and don’t feel care of the people close to me, I can’t be happy, no matter how success I have in my career. Speaking of love, I must say that it is closely connected with death. In my personal philosophy if people didn’t know they would die, I do not think they would be able to love so passionately. They wouldn’t be able to experience such powerful emotions and feelings without knowing that someday it would end. Love …show more content…

While we try to understand why God let violence, aggression and pain exist in our world. In trying to answer this question, we still should admit that people were given a freedom of choice, a choice between good and evil. Without it life would be meaningless. God wants us to act in a righteous way, but It is for the people to decide whether to follow God’s will or not. There are philosophers who think that evil and good are two forces with equal power. I think for the most part that people are kind, because they were created in the likeliness with God. In our hearts we approve virtue and reject corruption. However the discussion of this topic will almost never be able to eliminate pain and sorrow from our world, injected with the tears of history. Everyone knows the consequences of evil. I will keep to the point that life’s calamities will strengthen human spirit and I pray that next generations will not repeat our mistakes as well as the mistakes of their ancestors. I am an optimist and I think that it is important to concentrate on those honorable deeds which we can do now, because there’s no sense in dwelling in the past on events that were so destructive at the time, they cannot be changed but can eventually be forgiven by actions taken later in

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