What+is+Love+Prompt+1

Hi, Students! Read the following and click on the DISCUSSION tab above to contribute. You must give your response and then add another response where you comment on what your classmate(s) have said. SO A TOTAL OF 2 RESPONSES.

The following is a quote from C.S. Lewis. He expounds "being in love" and "falling in love" and what that means for a couple who has been married for a few years.

"What we call 'being in love' is a glorious state, and, in several ways, good for us. It helps us to make us generous and courageous, it opens our eyes not only to the beauty of the beloved but to all beauty...Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feelingk, but it is still a feeling. Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last all. Knolwedge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go. And in fact, whatever people say, the state called 'being in love' usually does not last...But, of course, ceasing to be 'in love' need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense--love as distinct from 'being in love' is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strenthened by the grace which both parents ask, and receive, from God. They can retain this love even when each would easily, if they allowed themselves, be 'in love' with someone else. 'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. It is on this love that the engine of marriage is run: being in love was the explosion that started it."

So my question is as folllows: What are your thoughts on "being in love"? In our class discussion, several of you talked about "falling in love." Does this help explain why "being in love" can't be the basis of a whole relationship? Does C.S. Lewis make a good point or do you disagree?