Love Is

Almost three years ago, an 18 year-old Rutger's college student named Tyler Clementi  committed suicide, a victim of cyberbullying and homophobia. Rutgers today is a much different campus with supportive dorm living for LGBT students and a group of student allies called Rainbow Perspectives. There is also a Tyler Clementi Foundation to provide students with education against ignorance.
     To live in this world you need to have a philosophy. Philosophy means love of wisdom.
Plato 's philosophy on love was this:
   Plato talks about three levels of pleasure.  First is sensual or physical pleasure, of which sex is a great example.  A second level is sensuous or esthetic pleasure, such as admiring someone’s beauty, or enjoying one’s relationship in marriage.  But the highest level is ideal pleasure, the pleasures of the mind.  Here the example would be Platonic love, intellectual love for another person unsullied by physical involvement.

   Wisdom eventually gives us the knowledge that all  humans are created equal and that love is universal and a form of self-realization, that is, you create it... Listen to this poem called "Love's Philosphy" by Percy Byssse Shelley and the song below:

I will go with you where stone meets the ocean
I will go with you when the moon is high
When the night is still and you reach to find me
I will go with you

I will be with you as the dawn is breaking
I will be with you in the morning light
Hold you in my arms, feel you lie beside me
I will be with you

In the hush of my voice
In the touch of my hand
In the salt of my tears andLove is

I will stand with you in this hour of witness
I will stand with you with an open heart
Trusting in this love, all we are creating
I will stand with you

                                                  ("Love Is" by Emma's Revolution)