People write about love all the time, but they almost never define it.
Can love be defined? Can a person say, “Well, love, of course is ____________ and ____________ , with a little of ____________ mixed in.” (Would a simple formula like that satisfy you?)
What is love, anyway? Can you describe it? What does it look like? What does it feel like? Smell like? Sound like? Taste like?
Where does a person find it if she or he is looking for it? Is it in a certain place? Does it have certain habits or routines? If so, what are those? Is it hard to get? Easy to get? Do you need to be qualified to get it? Is there anyone who doesn’t have it? Is there anyone who can’t have it? Is there anyone who has too much of it? Is it something people eventually want to get rid of?
Write about it.
What is love? According to a dictionary, love is a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person; a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend; sexual passion or desire. But to me, a dictionary can’t tell you how to be in love. The dictionary doesn’t do the word “love” any justice. Love looks like two people genuinely and compassionately being sincere and falling for each other. It looks like the woman and man sitting on a bench in a park, holding hands, resting their heads on each other, never wanting to let go. Love smells like the perfume or cologne that you know they love so you wear it to impress them. Love sounds like music playing as he leads you in a dance in the rain that you have dreamed of all your life. Love tastes like your favorite restaurant where they take you out to enjoy a beautiful night together.
If your looking for fake love, you can go just about anywhere. You could put yourself on eHarmony and find a date in about five minutes. But that isn’t real love. You don’t need to look for true love; true love will find you when you least expect it.
To be qualified for love, you don’t need to do much – you just need to keep your heart open. If you are poor, you can fall in love. If you are rich, you can fall in love. If you are mean, you can fall in love. If you are nice, you can fall in love. Anyone in the world can find love. You might think opposites attract, or that you are exactly like the person you love. I think any of that is fine as long as you are both truly in love.
One thing that is questionable is young love. I’m not talking about my age, I’m talking about those obnoxious middle schoolers who think they have found their soul mate. I personally think that if you are that young, you haven’t found love, you have found obsession. When you take a step up into high school, you might also think you found love, but I am here to tell you that if he even mentions sleeping with you, chances are he will mention it to another girl in a month. People in high school haven’t found love, they have found lust. Occasionally, there are people that fall in love in high school and get married, but if you have that idea then you will most likely end up getting hurt.
I think that often people over use the word love. “I loooooveee this purse!” It isn’t that you have a warm personal attachment or deep affection towards the purse, you just like it.
At times in my life, I have thought I was in love. I actually don’t know if I have been or not, but I know that having someone love you is a really good feeling. It can be stressful at times and it can be a burden if you don’t know how you feel back, but in the end you feel good about yourself. For me, I find it hard to believe. I can never trust anyone and I am very cautious of letting my walls down because of my past, but recently I have been able to experience something very close to love. My friends didn’t approve, and my parents hardly like how often I was out, but I felt careless and free and I loved it.
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