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Vincent_Lloyd's avatar

How do you look at life With out love?

Asked by Vincent_Lloyd (3007points) August 5th, 2010

Okay I’m thinking I’m going to go into little poll questions just to see the answers since lately I’ve been asking other people…(my sisters) they don’t say anything but “weeeerrriiddddd” But not with a proper response to the question. So I’ll ask everyone on here. How do you guy look at life with out love. Like…here’s an example (I sorta suck at them but I’ll try) You’re just born and they don’t love you, but you still get so called “raised” How do you think of it? Bad, sad, happy? I know the answer is quite obvious, but I just want to see how everyone will think of the question. So. With that being said. Answer and I’ll see the the details in the future.

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kenmc's avatar

The norm.

stranger_in_a_strange_land's avatar

For my first 38 years, I saw life as a series of problems to be efficiently and effectively solved. I was largely ruled by family tradition and reputation. When Cupid scored a hit, I realized that my previous life had been total crap.

Frenchfry's avatar

Umm. I don’t understand I guess since when you are born you are loved. Seriously with one look Atleast a mother’s love. or I did. You would have to be cold hearted to never love. Love is part of a human emotion . I guess Ill look forward to the answers too. I guess I don’t get it. .

Dewey420's avatar

Nature vs. Nurture. It’s a debate on whether innate animal instincts and heredity, or environmental temperment, compassion and “love” are most involved with the outcome of child rearing.
Some say God is love, in that case to live without love would be to live without God.
Great Question 1+

ducky_dnl's avatar

I’d look at it as I see it now.

NaturallyMe's avatar

Just plain sad.

Cruiser's avatar

The ability to show and give love varies greatly from person to person. Compared to my in-laws over the top huggy kissy greetings I grew up in a loveless household where we almost, well in fact never hugged and kissed. But I know I was loved and cared for but not is such an outwardly often gregarious way as the in-laws way of showing affection. It’s often the little things and gestures that IMO can be a persons way of showing they do care and do love you.

Sariperana's avatar

If that is all you have ever known, then how would you be able to determine that there is any difference?
Far enough there are certain cases of extremities, but what we determine as right or wrong, happy or sad is influenced by our environment.
@boots was right, it would be that persons ‘normal’.

daytonamisticrip's avatar

Life without any amount of love would be the end

tinyfaery's avatar

There are many different ways to give and experience love. I didn’t feel very much love from my parents, but the love I have for animals and what they give in return sustained me until I was able to find a human who could give me love that nourished me.

rpm_pseud0name's avatar

In the mirror.

aprilsimnel's avatar

Oh, @Frenchfry, but that I had your mum! There are plenty of parents who look upon their babes and don’t love, unfortunately.

I have had to learn slowly and painfully that the only one who for sure could love me was me.

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

I was loved by my parents and am a loving person myself.
I can’t imagine life without love…and you can’t make me;)

CMaz's avatar

“to be, being, that i am alive
this absurd fraction in its lowest terms
with everything cancelled but shadows
-what does it all come down to? love? Love
if you like and i like,for the reason that i
hate people and lean out of this window is love,love
and the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love and the reason
that i do not fall into this street is love.”

- Edward Estlin Cummings

Aster's avatar

What @lucillelucillelucille said. It seems like it would be so cold and empty without ANY- at least to me.

wundayatta's avatar

I’m not sure you can survive without love. Humans tend to kind of spoil like milk in the summer sun if they don’t have any love at all.

daytonamisticrip's avatar

Your theory is not true, i didn’t know what love was for a long time.

chelle104's avatar

I think being void of love is a disaster waiting to happen. A Charles Mansion type, probably is void of love, cold as ice and others like him. Absence of love, spawns fear. Fear is torment that lives in the lives of many. Fear can lead to the lust of power, rape, murder, etc. Love must exist if you are wanting to live a good life and contribute to this world. You choose. Even if a man doesn’t have love for a woman he may have love for golf, his co-workers, his neighbor, etc. but love in some form must exist, or your life will create pain. Invent your own definition of Love. I think most of us have to. Love in childhood is not always a good Love, and often it is not satisfying as we grow up. Childhood love is often conditional. “If you do this or that, I Love you”. If you fit in the circle you are special, loved, etc.At some point in our adult life, we must all define love as we see it, as we can relate to it. If one has never felt love, create your own, or be void of it. It’s a choice. Start with the visual of what you see. Like a beautiful sunset, a calm lake, a bird building it’s nest. If you feel amazed, at peace, entertained, etc, it is a part of love. Continue to explore all the feeling or visions, that you think might be love, and go with that. Comfort can be love, laughter can be love, giving, seeing, touching, wanting. It’s your world now. Make up your own feelings of Love, but let it be love you seek, not coldness. It’s a great journey and it’s yours. Do not go by the past if the past has not been good to you, rather, learn what NOT to feel, and what is good, and that could be your belief in love. God’s speed, my friend.

Vincent_Lloyd's avatar

@chelle104 OMG I LOVE THAT SONG! “I WANNA KNOW WHAT LOVE IS!!” Dun,dun,dun,dunnn XD

chelle104's avatar

Where’s my great answer?

SmoothEmeraldOasis's avatar

Each one of us has been given a chance to live life based on the set of parents that we were chosen to be genetically connected by, wether either parent chooses to be with us is another matter entirely. Should this be the case, the babe would still find love in the enviroment that it is raised in, either by the adoptive parents, or foster parents because they chose to have you in their lives. The ones that chose to hold you and nurture you throughout your infancy shows love. Those that say they did not know love till they were older are not really connecting with what they were given to live. Simple as that, just think and you shall find your answers.

wundayatta's avatar

@chelle104 I can’t tell you how many times someone has written in a comment that I had provided a great answer, but they didn’t give me a GA. Them’s the breaks.

wundayatta's avatar

@SmoothEmeraldOasis And yet it is love in expectation of what we will do, not because we exist. If we don’t perform, there is no love. This is true even as a baby. Nurturing is not enough. It’s nice, but it doesn’t develop healthy people who know how to love, nor when they are loved.

SmoothEmeraldOasis's avatar

Again, communication is key, and o if you convey what and how you would like to be treated then that is the begining of knowing love and how to love.

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