I’ve come to realise that love is a form of art. People look at art and try to understand it and then create their opinions based on it and that’s the same with love. To be honest, I don’t think anyone understands love. Nobody can explain why we do the things we do or think the way we think when we are in love. People like to think they know everything about love but the fact of the matter is, what love is.. Is different for everyone.
A lot of people also like to think they understand art really well. Some people do, but the fact is the artist is the only person who knows exactly what it means. Then it’s up to you what it means. That brings me on to the people who think art is just fancy galleries and nothing else, and the people that think love should be between a man and a woman and nothing else. Well I’m sorry to say that is a very small percentage of it. The problem with those people is they don’t know how to appreciate something they don’t understand.
Art is graffiti on a street wall protesting for Ireland to repeal the 8th, or marriage equality or even the fact that Conor Mcgregor won a fight. Art is when you walk down Grafton street and you see people creating a beautiful looking picture with spray paint, a blowtorch and stencils. Art is in the blueprints and designs of buildings, which will be appreciated by people when it’s a finished product. Art is in people’s tattoos. They usually tell a story and have a significant meaning for the person who chose it. Just because it doesn’t present itself as art in the usual setting doesn’t mean it’s not.
Love is a man and a woman coming together to have a baby. Love is a man and man coming together to adopt a child. Love is a woman and woman coming together to have children. Love is single mothers looking after her children as best she can. Love is single fathers looking after his children as best he can. Love is a blended family who take care of each other. Love is any relationship between 2 people that care immensely about each other, gay, straight, bisexual or transgender. Love is accepting someone for who they are. Just because love doesn’t present itself in the conventional way you grew up with doesn’t mean it’s wrong or not equal. It’s still love and last time I checked, it didn’t harm anyone.
The point I’m making is, you may not understand or recognise that it is art/love straight off but that doesn’t mean you can’t still try to learn and form an understanding of it and hopefully then come to appreciate it.
I personally don’t believe in labels because I think that people can change and evolve over time and you really don’t know who is going to come into your life on any given day.
The definition of art to you might be different than my understanding and your opinion on what love is might also be different but that’s the point, everybody is different. The most important thing to do is to respect each other, accept each other’s opinions and move on and live a happy life. Most people are just working to be the best versions of themselves that they can be and everyone is just trying to be happy. Who are you to take that away from someone?
Peace X
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