Reply to Kimi's question on love
What is love...
You've been bugging me for this answer for a while (okay, half a day)
I wrote one answer to this question when I was 14, but I feel like sections of it still apply. There's not just one type of love. Love comes in many forms and manifestations. What love is for me might not be what love is for any other person on Earth, but I don't really feel as though this makes any form of love more or less valid than any other.
To me, love is the glue that holds everything together. It makes you more willing to accept one person's flaws when you wouldn't necessarily accept them in another person. Romantic love involves a certain degree of physical attractiveness, but the attractiveness does not necessarily have to exist before the love. I think that the love creates the attractiveness at times. You get to love them by knowing them. So I guess then, knowing them creates their attractiveness. I don't just look at a random guy/girl in a magazine and say "wow, they're hot" (people usually think I'm weird for this) I think that people are attractive when I know the fun little quirks about them and their bodies. Maybe it's a strange birthmark on their back or maybe it's how they look when they're sleeping. Hmm...I don't think I'm answering the question correctly.
Love is not "never having to say you're sorry" Love *is* saying you're sorry and meaning it. We're all human; we all make mistakes. It's knowing that we made a mistake and that we feel bad because the other person feels bad. It also means being happy because the other person is happy. Well, I guess that's a bit of empathy too.
Love is missing the person before they're even gone and not wanting to wait until they can be back again. It's wanting to be selfish and keep the person for yourself but realizing that at the same time, you want the whole world to know about them and how much they mean to you.
Sometimes, love is everything.
You've been bugging me for this answer for a while (okay, half a day)
I wrote one answer to this question when I was 14, but I feel like sections of it still apply. There's not just one type of love. Love comes in many forms and manifestations. What love is for me might not be what love is for any other person on Earth, but I don't really feel as though this makes any form of love more or less valid than any other.
To me, love is the glue that holds everything together. It makes you more willing to accept one person's flaws when you wouldn't necessarily accept them in another person. Romantic love involves a certain degree of physical attractiveness, but the attractiveness does not necessarily have to exist before the love. I think that the love creates the attractiveness at times. You get to love them by knowing them. So I guess then, knowing them creates their attractiveness. I don't just look at a random guy/girl in a magazine and say "wow, they're hot" (people usually think I'm weird for this) I think that people are attractive when I know the fun little quirks about them and their bodies. Maybe it's a strange birthmark on their back or maybe it's how they look when they're sleeping. Hmm...I don't think I'm answering the question correctly.
Love is not "never having to say you're sorry" Love *is* saying you're sorry and meaning it. We're all human; we all make mistakes. It's knowing that we made a mistake and that we feel bad because the other person feels bad. It also means being happy because the other person is happy. Well, I guess that's a bit of empathy too.
Love is missing the person before they're even gone and not wanting to wait until they can be back again. It's wanting to be selfish and keep the person for yourself but realizing that at the same time, you want the whole world to know about them and how much they mean to you.
Sometimes, love is everything.