Love.
It's a word that floats around so easily in our society. Also, is loving someone the same thing as being in love?
I don't know much about love, this kind of love, this romantic love. In fact I truly know nothing about this kind of love. I've been comtiplating it much lately, and have been trying to conclude what true love is.
But, what, truly is love, in the romantic sense? Is it this amazing feeling you get, and you just know. You just know that you're in love. You feel it, you know it. Someone said that you can love someone that you're not even in a relationship with; and that you can be in a relationship with someone and not really love them. Well, what does this mean? Your heart stops when you're around this person, your breathing becomes minimal. Just holding hands with him or her makes you want to die in happiness. I don't know what it's like to be in love, I can tell you that, at least I think I can. If love is defined as a great feeling you get when you're around a certian person, if love is defined as loving your lips touching theirs, if love is not being able to be away from him or her at certian moments, and if love is defined as caring intensely about one person, the way you never have before, then I suppose I have loved and maybe am in love; but I don't think that's how love is defined. Flowers, cards and candy. Think of a lot of the popular love songs today, is that how love is defined? Or is that just a warped view of our culture's "love"? Do you love because of what that other person does for you and how he/she makes you feel? Do you love because you can't help it, because it just is?
Or is love something more? Is love a true and real commitment of spending the rest of your life with that one special person. Is true love knowing that when times get tough and you really want to kill the other person, that in actuality you would die for that person? Is love a sacrafice, giving up of yourself for your boy/girlfriend fiance or spouse? Is love something everyone needs, does everyone need one person to spend the rest of their life loving? When you think about love do you think about your sacrafice for that person, do you think about his or her sacrafice for you? Do you remember all those times you fought and how you wouldn't change it for anything because you're so much closer now? Is this how love is defined. Is love something that's chosen, a verb someone must decide to do?
Maybe love doesn't need a definition. Maybe love is something each one of us feels differently. Maybe I'm just odd in the way that things need to be orderly, things need to have definitions. Maybe I'm too immature or inexperienced to not realize what love really is.
Is love an adjective, a descriptive word of the way one feels, or is love a verb, something that's put into action?
