What is love? Is love really definable? Just what exactly is love? If you were to look it up in the dictionary, love means to have a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person; it is a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection. The dictionary gives a rather very close meaning to what love is, yet the given meanings are not enough to describe such a simple word.
Simple. How can a word that is composed with only four letters from the alphabet, a word that only has one syllable, a word so simple, hold endless meanings that can be interpreted in different various ways by so many? In my personal opinion, the word “love” cannot be so easily defined. Hell, can it even be defined? Perhaps it’s easy for a person, who has not experienced what it’s like to love and to be loved - or rather does not understand the concept of love, to say, “Well, love, of course is _______ and ________, with a little of _________ mixed in.” But if you ask what is love anyway, I would probably be bad at describing it because there are million of ways to describe it. Love can’t be really seen, smelled, nor tasted, but it can be felt. If you ask of a description of the word -- what love feels like -- well, love brings you both pain and happiness. Without the pain that love brings, it would be impossible to see and feel love. With the pain, we are able to realize and notice just how beautiful everything is, even the smallest things.
Love makes your heart flutter in weakness, it makes your heart beat nonstop whenever that certain someone appears in front of you. Even with just a mere thought of them makes your world stop in an instant as if nothing could matter more than that special person.. Often at times, you find yourself going crazy about them, unable to ignore or forget such a feeling; and at the end all you do is keep going back. Your mind is about to explode from just thinking of them. With every touch, every sensation love brings, it seems to keep you in a trance. Although, with every beauty love brings comes the unbearable heartaches. There is no such thing as a “perfect love”. If a “perfect love” is what you seek of, where everything is just filled with happiness and beautiful times, then you might as well give up on searching such a kind of love because it’s not guaranteed that love can only provide you those good times. There will be a time where one will find themselves crying, being torn apart, their heart shattered into pieces, and it’s as if the world has fallen apart upon them. But it is only natural for the feeling of suffering and sorrow to be attached to a world like “love”. Loving someone and love itself is never easy, and if it was, we would be living in such a beautiful, peaceful world. There's going to be moments where it may see that everything couldn't be more perfect than the the present moment you are engulfed in and there will be times where it may seem that everything you knew and know of has fallen into darkness with no way out. But that's what makes love beautiful. Without all of its imperfections, we wouldn't be able to appreciate the things that makes it perfect.
Love is found in the most unexpected places, at the most unexpected moment. There is no definite place nor definite time that will tell you where and when to find love. There is no map that shows you where love is located, no clues that hints you where to find love, there’s no pot at the end of a rainbow that is filled with love. If anything, you don’t really find love, love finds you. Love also has no certain routines nor habits that can be pinpointed. Love is not hard to get, it comes naturally; it may take time to get, but sooner or later it will come. There are those who has already found the person they’ll love and spend the rest of their lives with and yet there are those who haven't found it yet. It’s just a matter of time really. It’s also rubbish to say that there are those who can’t have it or those who don’t deserve to love and to be loved. There are no qualifications of some sort to be granted with love. Everyone can have love, it just depends on what they decide to do with it -- if they choose to cherish or throw it away.
One can never have too much of love if they know how to cherish it. If one doesn’t know how to care for love, then what value does is really hold? Is there even a sentimental value in such a feeling? It must be fully appreciated in order for a person to see the value in what love can bring.
We, as humans, often come across things that we thought was valuable to us and yet only find ourselves wanting to get rid of such a thing. For example, when you were probably just a child, you always want the best and newest toys out there. So whenever your friend showed off their new toy, you always end up wanting the same one. You ask your parents for that certain toy, they buy it for you, you play with it several times, but find yourself growing tired of it. Love is no different from a toy. To fall in love so easily only means to fall out of love too quickly. One may thing that what they have is love, but when given the time to sit down and just think, it can be quite surprising what they might realize after mere self-reflections. Soon, they find themselves trapped in love’s lucid dream because of their realization that what one once thought was love was never really love after all. Some of us truly fall in love with that one person who we can't live without, and yet some of us only fall in love with the idea of love and being loved. Hence, the reason as to why people in relationships break-up...
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