Love Classes Reflection

Love classes provide a platform where we actually take a pause and redefine love. What is love and what is not love- these questions we tend to miss out, due to our busy schedules and these classes make us think that are we really in love or just bound by duties which we anyway have to do, for the sake of doing it in the name of love, care, and affection.

In our last sessions, discussions were extensively based on the book, ‘The Road Less Travelled’ by American Author- M. Scott Peck. The book was published in 1978 and was one of the best-selling books. After reading the examples and the kind of discussion that took place, I feel, indeed it’s one of the best books to understand love or real love.

The facilitators led healthy and meaningful discussion along with activities on both the days. Both Priyanka mam and Nandini mam were supportive throughout the discussions and answered our questions with utmost clarity and calmness. There was not even a single moment where I felt that the sessions were not worth.

The points I can recollect from the love classes: Falling in love is effortless which eventually fades out and one has to seek for real love which is eternal and leads to the complete well-being of an individual including spiritual growth. We, humans, long for oneness, which gives us assurance of safety, happiness, and belonging. But from the very initial stages of our life, we tend to form ego boundaries which isolate us from rest of the world and create the feeling of loneliness. Once we reach our mid-adolescents we again tend to drive for oneness and our rescue is the one we feel, we’ve fallen for. But that is very much temporary. The realization comes when arguments and expectations differ and again the ego boundaries are raised. Real love starts only when the falling in love phases out. We also discussed The Risk of Loss, The risk of Commitment, The risk of Independence and The Risk of Confrontation. So when we surpass all these risks we actually discover real love.