My writer's group homework (Gail Taylor): Personal essay.

  I am most interested in improving my writing on philosophical topics in personal essays. As I understand it, the author of recommended by Gail article advise that all reasoning in the essay be based on some real events or stories that you experience over and over again. In my opinion, philosophical essays, according to Kant, should use "a priori knowledge", i.e. use your own logic. Then, when some conclusions are made, you can refer to them when you describe events or write a story. For example, I read my story “Was my childhood happy?” for you. I used there my concept of happiness from my personal essay "Happiness". After discussing with my family and friends various issues of daily life, I am trying to write personal essays about other concepts to use and try in our lives.  I want to present you the essay "Love". I think this concept will be of interest to everyone.

Epigraph

"Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn’t so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other… ” - Bulgakov Master and Margarita

You are in love...
 

When this happens, you will be sure of it.
The flame appears out of nowhere.
Now you live only to keep the fire burning more and more.

- Your success? - To the Fire!

- Your dignity? - To the Fire!

- Money? - To the Fire!

- Big money? - To the Fire!

Your brain, all your body are working so perfect: for the Fire! 

If the other Fire appears in respond - you both won't be able to see anything - just a flame!

If the Fire is just yours - in any way you have it!

It won't be like this forever.

The Love is over? Not really over, but a wild flame has died away. Free energy has flooded over you. While in Love, you are used to generate a lot of energy.

You became conscious. The entire world suddenly appeared around you.

...This man beside you... He is really nice, smart, kind and caring.

But, it could happened he is- not like that. The flame might dazzle you!

The Love activated your brain!
A lot of questions appeared!
-- Why is the sky blue, but the snow is white?
-- Where are the stars from? What about the Moon?
-- Who carves snowflakes and makes frost patterns on the windows?
-- And where is EVERYTHING from?
Somebody would ask you: "What you need this for?"
Probably, you really do not need it, but your activated brain is questioning and questioning, it is not feeding any more the Fire of Love.

The Love accumulated a lot of energy!
You want and ready to build a platform of concepts for a family you feel responsible for.

My dear reader! I am Viktorina Savelyeva, the author of this essay and the performer of a certain life, 84 years long. Mondays. Tuesdays. Sometimes it's Sunday. Beginnings and crashes. Fascinatingly. But it's already hard to breathe. Discussing all of the above with my man really helps. We both have been accumulated a lot of energy in 62 years of marriage.
All discussions must be prepared in advance. When I look for an adviser, He immediately comes.
Yes, definitely male. He is not God, no, he is much lower than that and much more specific. I'm not sure of its exact location: inside or outside my body? Part of me or not? Does it belong only to me? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I only know that He is here with me and my man, and that I can talk to Him or send Him "SOS!" This is my Guardian Angel!
And so we live, following the well-known Russian expression: "It's not the evening yet!"