Posted: April 2nd, 2015

Leisure and Love

Leisure and Love

The definition of love in this paper emanates from the association of attraction and sexual desire as an affection that relates between lovers. Leisure on the other hand is the brief period that one stops working to enjoy a holiday or a weekend or to observe religions teachings in matters of faith. In the Catallus poem leisure is discernible from the footnotes that Catallus had a higher standing in the society. As is of the nature of noble men in the traditional setting, they spent most of their life in the most leisurely manner. This is the best time that a roving eye finds love when there are no occupations preoccupying ones mind. The mind is free and thus able to express the innermost basics understandings of human intimacy.                The resultant of the connection between love and leisure is intense passions that are captured in the line “subtle fire runs through my body (Catallus, 51).” If passions are not taken in the right way and where love was blind as the great connotations, then love turns sour either due to missing the persons who are loved or as a result of break up. This is captured in the line “all that I ask for is health, an end to this foul sickness (Catallus, 76).” Therefore, when love and leisure come to be joined in a marriage the energy spent to please and cultivate that love becomes all in vain. As if it is a commentary one should work and engage the mind with other things since leisure results to love that breeds to sickness and despair.                In conclusion therefore, this paper observes that the combination of the two is disastrous and should be avoided at all costs.