All you need is love?

All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
It's easy.
All you need is love, all you need is love.


Oh, the Beatles. Such philosophers! This song does bring up some good questions, though. Is love really all we need? In what sense? And is it enough for a relationship? I think that we do need love, but in many forms: love for life, love for something we do in life- a hobby, our work, our religion, mutual love between friends and family, and the unconditional love of those closest few. As for in a relationship, I have grown away from this idea of one true soul mate. I just think that love works differently for everyone. I also believe that choosing to be or not be in a relationship with someone, as a friend or romantically, is a reflection of what you want from your life as well as a reflection of your feelings towards that person in particular. For example, there are people that I like or even love, and without doubt wish them the best in life. However, I choose not to spend time with them because their paths are so different from mine or because their personalities bring me down rather than up. (Think that ex- bestie from middle school. I still truly care about her, but I can't help her to fix her problems if she doesn't want them to be fixed, so I just have to distance myself for my own mental health.) As for romantic relationships- sacrificing for love sounds so romantic in the movies, but how much should one sacrifice for a person they love before they sacrifice too much of what makes them, well, them?

"Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be." -I'm not sure I buy that. Is that just optimism? Or is it that pre-destination idea so that it doesn't really matter what you do, it's all just God's plan unfolding? If we regret something, wouldn't that mean we weren't where we were meant to be? The things that I regret, and they aren't big things, but they were times I know I wasn't being true to myself- that I wasn't acting as the person I want to be. I've learned more from those times then the average day of routine, that's for sure. So is that full circle, and that's why I was meant to be there?

Can we be where we're not meant to be? And what is "meant to be"? What love do we need? What are your thoughts???

-Meg

What are your thoughts everyone?