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I never really understood what it meant until I found it, or rather when it became part of me -- to become one with someone you have deep feelings for and returned. It was not so much about the physical orgasm that accompanies the culmination of that physical intimacy -- we call sex between consenting individuals. Long after the moment, you remember -- as much as the salmon remembers the stream of its birth. Etched into memory especially if consumated with one you love and the love was returned.
What it is, is not just what transpired before, during and after the deed was done. Or, the prolonged bliss even during the lull after the height of passion. Rather, from that moment on you see a future different from before.
What could be more beautiful than two people in love?
Long before this moment we have found and knew what love is. Felt in the comfort in the bosom of Mother, the security from the pat of Father and the bond that developed with a Sister or Brother. This too we love -- different forms of love.
One of the things I am thankful for in life is to experience all this. I just thought as a young boy that it was part of the natural order of things, and perhaps took it for granted. It came as a shock when I came to the United States, and found that there are too many unwanted and disposable children in the world, especially in a country as rich as America. But, then I realized that wealth or lack thereof was not a the reason why children become unwanted and disposable. But, disposable people are not limited to children. While waiting for a bus sometimes or in a number of unexpected settings, I cannot count the times when I had to lend a sympathetic ear to an older people I first met -- mostly older women for some reason -- who unburdened their feelings of neglect, from the children they cared for all their lives.
Something must have gone awry, along the way, in our modern society -- why love was denied to those we should love and those who are most in need of love -- our children and our elder people.
With all the problems we have in society to confront the issue of unloved and disposable children and older people, it boggles my mind why we should not encourage love more between people who find this.
I find it disturbing why many people, churches and the states instead focus their energy in regulating or meddling with the expression of love between consenting individuals.