Should One Love?

Should one love? Good question.  First, look at what love is, instead of what one should love.  There is no question that love exists around us, and the world still exists in some sort of harmony, but the question is really ‘what is love’ before we ask if we should pass, or partake after looking at these three examples.
Love is madness.  Love is something that takes you from a comfortable manner, to an unruly being.  Some people give everything they can to ‘love’, whether it is for a person, a discipline, or an object.  The lovers are reduced to primal beings to the extent that they don’t allow themselves to move beyond this instinct they have to depend on something.  There are both negatives and positives to this aspect.  The positive is that they have something to believe in.  The lovers live vicariously through their love; they’re allowed to be spontaneous, crazy, upset, and happy all at the same time.  There’s a freedom to being a lover, it allows these things not normally accepted at the extent to where they are in the lover’s rite. On the other hand, there are negatives to this madness: it’s madness.  The lover is on a different plane than the everyman, he is devoted wholeheartedly to love.  Love isn’t love if you didn’t hurt someone, and this is the way is always ends.  This doesn’t mean the other person in the relationship, for the most part it means oneself.  There are casualties to love, because it more often than not isn’t two-directional when it involves people, and it’s inaccessible in pertaining to the disciplines.   There is never enough knowledge of a study to suffice the mind and its boundless capabilities, and there’s always some casualty when people are involved, someone is hurt by love and that’s just the way it is.  
Another way to look at love is if it achieves happiness.  Happiness is subject to freedom, something that love has contrasting effects on.  Love can make you free, free from inhibitions, reservations, and from thought. It has a funny way of allowing you to act however you’d like in the moment, though it may not be how you’d want to act regularly without the intoxication.  Freedom is focusing on things that depend on us, rather than those that we depend on.  True love doesn’t care for material possession; it cares for the intangible possessions, those that we want to let out from our hearts selective to the individual.  The problem with this is; we love independently of others.  We can love something wholeheartedly without receiving anything in return, or we can love with co-dependence, which can ultimately crush us.  This separation then brings us to the way we interpret the love we spread.  One can love selflessly, where we’re just happy with how we feel inwardly, independent of the object of our love.  This is true freedom, where happiness from the object supersedes the response.  The converse, however, is what most people succumb to.  Most people interpret love as a two way street rather than a mirror, meaning they believe that they have to feel love in return to enjoy their relationship.  This is the opposite of freedom; it is caring about something completely independent of your control, and interpreting it as dependent on your happiness.  There is no love without self, there is no happiness without love, and there is no freedom without happiness, we must interpret love in the correct manner.  
The last form of love is of the mind.  The mind is a volatile object; it needs to be cultured to be positive in its own eyes.  There is no love above philosophy; with it we can reach bounds unknown to those without this passion that only lovers are capable of reaching.  We must reject pettiness of objects and devote ourselves to advancing ourselves, the true background for love.  Without care for objects, or unreasonable distraction, we can study and attempt to understand the will of the gods to an extent unreachable by the materialistic.  The gods give us our reason and our future, and in accordance with that we have to rely on them to decide what’s right.  Upon putting our trust in the gods, we’ll be revealed the truth, which is all of the above concepts, freedom, happiness, and most of all; love.