Love....

So I started this blog not really understanding the word love or the defination of love.  I was confused because in today's langauge love and like seem to be interchangable in some situations.  I understand that love is one notch above like, but it seems like it use to be that when some one said I love this or that it was a major declaration.  Today those statements are just thrown around with I like this and I like that.  This interchanging of words seems to happen in nearly any situation and no one thinks twice about which word was meant to have been spoken.  Any situation except people.  There is still a really meaning behind I love you.  I am glad for this because if I am fortunate enough to hear this from someone I want to know he actually meant it.  The Greeks were smart.  They had four different words for love and each meant a different level of love.  No one had to be confused if it was a causal love or serious love.  Wish there was a way to incorporate this in our every day english. 

So how did this all come about?  Why was I thinking about the word love?  Because of 1 John.  Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁸ Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.  It makes me wonder if i truely understand God if I have trouble loving people.  How do I handle it when people don't love me?  Turn the other check is easier said than done sometimes.  So I love people but which form of love is God talking about?  Not that it should matter necessarily, but its a process and I need to know where the starting gate is.  Love is very confusing. 

Is ignorance bliss?

A common phrase we hear as a child is "Ignorance is bliss."  But as I have grown to become an adult, I have learned how false that statment is in certain situations.  The not knowing about something can often times hurt the outcome more than knowning even the smallest piece of information.  Dont get me wrong, there are situations where the not knowing has it place, but that number has become smaller and smaller.  The only time I could see not knowing, thus ignorance is bliss, is when there is a stressful situtation at front and the information another individual has has nothing to do with the situation and would cause more stress.  Then ignornace is bliss.  But in any other situation I do not see how not knowing benefits the person making the decision.  If the person enters blindly into the situation, then they could make matters worse because they would be acting in the same manner they have always acted. 

To often it seems that people believe that people are mind readers which is ironic because if people were mind readers, then those same people who wished people were mind readers would be upset.  A mind is a sacred place because its our private santuary.  No one can read our minds.  True a lot of time people can read our emotions through our facial expressions or our eyes, but they can never read our minds.  Which is what annoys me about people who expect people to know what they are thinking or feeling with out rightly telling them outloud.  I get that we should learn to read peoples body language or facial expressions or moods, but all that can be deceiving or if read wrong lead to a big mess.  I don't have an answer to this problem I see but I guess its a live and learn process.