THE LOVE

“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more” –Erica Jong

According with some dictionaries love is any of a number of emotions related to a sense of strong affection and attachment. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure "I loved that meal" to intense interpersonal attraction "I love my husband". This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states. As an abstract concept, love usually refers to a deep, ineffable feeling of tenderly caring for another person. But sometimes love can be confused with Lust it means a craving for sexual intimacy, sometimes to the point of assuming a self-indulgent character. Lust, or a desire for the flesh of another, is considered a sin in the three major Abrahamic religions when indulged outside of marriage; is also a physical need for something or for someone whereas love is an emotional need for it or them, so in general lust means to have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual appetite or of covetousness.

For me love is the union of two persons who loves each other or minimum wants to know about the person who is going to be its love and will share special moments of its life, love is be worry and pay attention about his things, his study, his family, his job, etc; love can make you change to be happy and make happy the other person, it can make smile when you see his picture, when you hear his voice, when you are with him you cannot see anything else around you, because he is your whole world and he became to be the most important thing in your life, love can make you smile always to yourself when you are thinking about him. Love is to think very much about this person, it is to wish sincerely the best things for its life, it is to think together, it is also to think about the better things for the relation and to do the relation stable; love includes so many feelings as respect, trust, honesty but I think the principal is loyalty, as a feeling of devotion to something or someone, the feeling that you really want to be with the loved person, making promises and crazy things to enjoy the company and the special moments. The love is felt when one gives a kiss, when you look at this person and feel that it is the best thing that has happened to you in the life and you never want to lose it. The love is felt when you see this person and nothing else around you exists, when you look at him and the rest of the world it is paralyzed to there be demonstrated the meaning of the real love.

Love comes in so many different levels, first love to our friends, we love them because we miss them when we don’t see them even if is for a while; another level of love can be to the family, because though sometimes we don’t like some of our family we will do things for our siblings or other members of the family when they are in a problem or when they need just talk with someone; the third level may be the love between man and woman, this love is the strongest feeling that you can imagine, it is our driving force, for whatever reason it may be, it is our happiness’ motive to be fine with the rest of the world and it is our greatest emotional pleasure, to love and to be loved.

“Infantile love follows the principle: ’I love because I am loved.’ Mature love follows the principle: ‘I am loved because I love.’ Immature love says ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you.’” – Erich Fromm

The love can be different because we have variety of ways to express it, and you can show this feeling doing everything as you want without care what people around think, just care what the loved person think about it and about the relationship; you can express love by dedicating songs expressing the real feeling, writing poems sincerely including off course what you really feel for the person, what you think about it, and the things that you would not say aloud; it can be express in public as you want if you don’t really worry what the world think about it, it includes the physical demonstration of affection for another person, such as, holding hands, kissing, cuddling, caresses, tender, romantic words and doing things you would not normally do; but sometimes and depends of the society public demonstrations can be considered a bad taste or an avoid action but also it depends what you think about express love in public, because if you are a shy person I think you will not do anything that embarrassed yourself, but love can make change your well-being to demonstrate what you feel, think and love the other person, and do anything necessary to express and believe what you are doing is the right thing to say “I love you” honestly.

When you are in love no service seems so hard, you don’t think too much about be worry about him, about his favorite things, for example, his sports, his friends, his studies, the smallest things or details that he has to you are the greatest and the most significant things and it is the beginning of a beautiful relationship and the motor of your wishes and dreams beside this person; when you really love you don’t care what you have or should to do to make happy the other person, you don’t care either think about what to do to express love and what is the other person going to think because you just do thing from your heart sincerely, so the thought of the other person no matter too much just because you are in love, and everybody around you note that, and sometimes the happiness you transmit to other make them jealous and it can increase your love because you feel the way you demonstrate love is the better to do that, for the reason that everyone wants to feel what you feel and be able to show to be as happy as you are.

“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better”

- Shakespeare

After 28 months of romantic relationship, I can say that I am really in love with the most special person I have ever known, he has been the most extraordinary thing that has happened in my life, the biggest present from God, the most valuable treasure and I just want to keep this love growing up for the rest of our lives!!! ♥♥♥

CARNIVAL OF BARRANQUILLA

Barranquilla’s Carnival is the most representative carnival of Colombia; it is a show of the most beautiful folklore, culture and happiest people. This celebration is a carnival with traditions that date back to the 19th century. Barranquilla’s Carnival is reputed for being second in size to Rio’s. It is celebrated by the people in Barranquilla, a city of Colombia located in the north-west of the country. This carnival includes a big parade on the principal street of the city; people do parties at home, also in the central plaza, orchestras do concerts and the principal singers of the country go to the city and some artist do variety of theatrical representations.
The Barranquilla’s Carnival takes place four days preceding Ash Wednesday and is the largest and colorful in the world. The normal activities of the city are paralyzed because the city gets busy with the street dances, musical and impressive parades. This carnival is very important because it’s cultural diversity and because it is a feast where the people are the main protagonists, and they can perform many styles of Colombian music and folkloric dance. This Carnival includes dances like the Spanish paloteo, African congo and Indigenous mico y micas. Many styles of Colombian music are also performed, most prominently cumbia, and instruments include drums and wind ensembles.
The Carnival of Barranquilla was proclaimed by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), in November 2003, as one of de Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, during Olga Lucia Rodriguez – carnival queen year-. It is a Colombian feast exposed to the world. The feast contains a mixture of cumbia, porro, mapale, gaita, chande, puya, fandango and merecumbes. These are examples of many styles of Colombian music. It is a feast that gathers up tradition based on the creativity of Colombian people, and it is expressed by various forms of dancing, by means of music, by different forms of art works, by the wearing of different costumes, and by the way of celebrating. The Carnival of Barranquilla is unique because of its cultural diversity and because it is a feast where the people are the main protagonists. Every dance, every folkloric group, and every custom play different roles to make the feast the best show on earth.
The Carnival of Barranquilla is multicultural, diverse and rich in different cultural expressions. It’s dancing and expressions, just like its music, are gathered from every city of the Caribbean part of Colombia. The Carnival’s diversity can be categorized in seven different blocks: traditional dances or folkloric representations; dances relation or manifestation dances; special dances or choreographic dances; Comparsas – a form of live music -, with which the choreography of dances and creativity of dances are expressed; Comedies which are traditional and folkloric popular theater, where oral expression is its primary characteristic; Litany, which are traditional groups that sign along a choir; and last but not least the customs. These can be individual, or collectives, structural and dramatic.
This carnival is the biggest and most important for the people in the region called “costeños”, because they life in the Colombian Caribbean coast, north of the country and other regions near or adjacent to it. This term is used in this country to describe a type of person happy and cheerful, with a dialect, culture, gastronomy, folklore, music, dance, idiosyncrasy, features and ways to be very different from the people inside the country or from the capital. In fact, the coast is a person of idiosyncrasy and culture much closer to Cuban, Puerto Rico, the Venezuelan (coastal regions), the Dominican Republic or Panama as their own countrymen in the interior.
The principal city of costeños is Barranquilla where the carnival is from, they are very happy, that is why the take the carnival with all the majesty and magic to show to the rest of the world that “who lives the carnival is the one who enjoys” putting this phrase as the Carnival's official slogan.