Aug 25, 2010 19:23
Hmm...Difficult one.
Love is...what you define it to be.
I used to believe that love was that all-consuming obsessive passion that overtakes you in some relationships or with some people. That's not healthy or sustainable. It's destructive. There will always be the honeymoon period, but that passes, and what remains has to sustain you.
I believe that love is looking forward to seeing or speaking to that person again and again, years down the track. It's thinking of the person and smiling. It's beyond lust, beyond obsession and beyond thought. I believe you can love a friend and not love a lover. I believe what we're fed by the media is a lie, and again, an unsustainable fallacy that serves only to make us feel bad for our love not to be like that, and to make us question ourselves. it's like the media depiction of "beauty". It serves only to make you consume more and more to make you live up to the ideal.
Love is acceptance. Love is no compromise, and no need for compromise. Love is going away and knowing the warmth you will come back to without doubt, fear or worry. For love to exist, trust must be implicit. Without trust there is no love.
True Love is something I doubt I will ever feel.
True Love is something I feel every day.
True Love defies definition, and beggars belief. It is chemical, physical, spiritual and emotional.
Love is.
T