Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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All have felt love, even if its form was the contact comfort from mother after emerging from the womb. We concep- tualize our ideal of love and the love ob- ject, and then travel in our fantasy reality world until we stumble upon the fulfill- ment of this conceptualization. Probably most often reality does not deliver to us a perfect fulfillment, but rather we modify this conceptualization to fit the finally-found love object and allow fan- tasy to supply the equivalent ecstacy of perfect fulfillment. Love is fantasy. Love is not the empty, physical pursuit of sex as portrayed in the mass media. Love is awakening in the darkness and feeling lips burrowed in- nocently and sleepily against your neck, and an arm draped tenderly across your chest. Love is emotional orgasm. Love is achiev- ing what could never be achieved alone. Love is being in love with love, mythically. Love is meaning. Love is not perfect, for when love disap- pears, life becomes painful and fantasy rejects all thoughts, casting them to ago- nizing reality. But time will eventually ad- monish love for its periodic cruelty. Time fertilizes love and we anxiously await its fresh blossom. Being alone is waiting for love ' s rebirth. When love majestically reappears in its true essence, we are for- bidden to fear its disappearing again, or it will bid adieu after a brief flirtation. Love and life are mutually dependent. . Love is unity. Be love! Accept lov