What is love?
Love is wonderful, love is horrible. Love is amazing, love is awful. Love is the greatest thing on earth but it is also the worst. It is all of it at the same time. Love is feelings.
If you look up the definition of love it says:
“A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.”
I completely agree, but that’s just one side of love. Love can be with a person you have a romantic interest in but it can also be towards music and movies, love to your pet and let’s not forget the most powerful love of them all; a mother’s love. When I hear the word love I instantly think of love between two people with romantic motives and I think that goes for almost everyone. That’s what we seek, what we desire. That’s the one thing we spend our entire lives searching for.
So, what does it mean to love someone? What exactly is love? Is it to put the one you love first even if it means you’re getting hurt, let them be happy even though you might not be, let them go because you know that’s what’s best for them or is it always being there for them, no matter what? I believe it is all of the above and much more.
Love is such a strong emotion. I believe that there’s only one more emotion as powerful as love and that’s jealousy. But I guess they sort of go hand in hand, you often have to love someone to become jealous, and now I’m not talking about just a little bit. No, I’m talking about that insane “I-want-to-rip-someone’s-throat-out” kind of jealousy. I find it scary that we’re even capable of such strong feelings and what they can drive us to. It completely changes who we are. The feeling that pumps through your body when you see the one you love with someone else, it’s among the worst feelings you can experience. I do not wish it for my worst enemy.
I feel like I’ve talked a lot about the downside of love. Sure, love is nasty but honestly, I wouldn’t want to live in a world without it. Love makes people unselfish and grateful, we need more of that on our planet. A person in love automatically becomes nicer to everyone around him/her. When you love someone and they love you back, nothing can take you down. Those butterflies you get in your stomach when you see that one person, that silly smile you just can’t get rid of when you’re with them and when you’re so happy that you just want to scream at the top of your lungs. Those are among the greatest feelings in the world.
Isn’t it crazy? How something that makes one walk on clouds also can drive one to the darkest thoughts. You’ll probably get hurt more than you’ll get to experience those magical moments, when suddenly the whole world makes sense. But it doesn’t matter how many times we get hurt, we’ll always search for love. Because we know that, when we find that special someone, it will all be worth it.