I like the saying “love like you have never been hurt”.  I don't think one CAN love someone fully with all their heart if they believed things were going to end.  One can fall in love and fall out of love many times in their lives.  Hopefully one will fall in love with someone one day and not fall out of love and this may be the person who was meant for him or her.   What is love anyway?

What is the meaning of love? Is it merely a strong desire? Or is it more than that?  The word love is sometimes used too often and loses its meaning but sometimes the love is absent and there is not enough of it.  Love is such an abstract word.  I can probably go on and on for pages about my thoughts on love and other people's thoughts on love.  Love is an emotion.  We feel it and I think that it is such an intense and indescribable feeling that the words “I love you” don't even come close to showing how much it means.

I learned in psych 100 that when you love someone, it begins with passionate love(physical) and this love may eventually evolve into companionate love(a deeper kinda love).  That is supposed to be the best kind of love there and that is the kind of love that one usually shares with their life partners.  You're supposed to know that you're growing out of the passionate love stage when you see the differences between you two and I guess that is when so many factors determine whether you two can be with each other in the long run.  Many people mistaken that transition from passionate love to companionate love as falling out of love I think(is this possibly why the divorce rate is so high?).  Love is so confusing, yet nothing beats the feeling of being on "cloud nine".  I think i'm an infatuation junkie.  I really love the feeling when you first begin to like someone A LOT.

We can love so many people and things.  One can love doing something or eating something, one can love their friends and family, and one can love another so much that they would want to spend their whole lives with him/her.    Not that love is all positive or happy-happy stuff.  It is also the cause of heartbreak, fights, and sorrow.  What can you do if you love someone, only to find out that you are not loved in return or not in the same way?  What about obsessive love?  Love can make you bitter and can sometimes leave you feeling confused and alone.  I guess sometimes love is about accepting reality.

I definitely think love is a need; life isn't worth living without it.  Why question it?  I just want to love with I have, and be loved for who I am.  Don't we all?  It's much better than the alternative.

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