Category: Dating and Relationships
Hey, just a general question for everyone, so, feel free to post here of how you percieve love. What does love mean to you, and why? Have you always felt this way?
the word love is over-used and so therefore, in my opinion, has become devalued. I can tell anyone I love them, it's showing it that matters.
I've thought I've been in love about 4 or 5 times in my life, but it wasn't until I fell in love for real I realised that the previous times were nothing more than a crush or a fixation, some silly teenage playground attraction. I didn't fall properly in love till I was 22, and it hit me like a train wreck.
Love is not something you can measure, or even express. True love is only something you can feel and experience. It seems nothing I write is enough to get across exactly how I feel about this person, and I can only show it through who I am and what I do.
So many people think they're in love, but they really arn't. I've discovered true love and I think i'm lucky because lots of people never find it. It's just so crewl that I fucked up, and I'll probably never get her back. She left a mark on my sole, a true impression on my very being, and now she's not in my life, I feel hollow and only half the man I used to be.
That's true love. I'm just such an idiot to let it go
i couldn't agree more with Andy's description of true love. honestly, i thought i was in love with my ex, but that didn't work out, and it hurt me in a way i can't and won't go in to. i've only been totally in love with one person, but that never went anywhere. he has such a kind sweet gental heart, but he never wanted to take things beyond friendship, as far as i kno. yeah, i still talk to him, but i don't hold out any hope of us even being a couple anymore. sure, i'd love it if we were, and i'd love him for who he is. i couldn't even think of a single way to describe in words how much i still and will always love him, cause just writing it down wouldn't be enough. all i do kno is, that i'd never hurt him, cause we've both been through to much heartbreak in our lives already.
I also agree with andy. it is possible to love someone but not be in love with them. I have only been truly in love once in my life and this person to this very day I miss and he holds a very deep place in my heart. God only knows if I will feel that again one day. I would like to think so, but the more I hurt and the more I realize just how fragile and complicated a relationship can be the more I realize that chance of feeling so happy and finding that happiness and keeping it is ever so slim.
Me beeing only sixteen some may not agree with this, who no's some might.
But too my nollige, I can't say i was "In love" with this person, however I do no that I did love him a lot, and truely cair for him. things ended, and for about a year we were fighting, arguing, we couldn't stand each other. At the end of the school year i was thankfull enough to get his friendship back. Now we are like "brother & sister" weird how that can work, but to this day I still love him, its just a diffrent type of love now.
We were thrue the good times and bad together, and I'll never forget things he shoed me, and did for me.
That's just my oppinion..Lol sorry if it is confusing to some. I'm not good at expressing my self in writing.
morgan_Lynn
Morgan, i get your point, and i'm not trying to be mean or anything when i say this, but yeah, your only 16, and i don't think you've experienced actual true love yet. you will, and when you do, you and you alone will know it. it's the type of love you don't just feel with your heart, you feel it with your mind, your every fibre of your being. it's the type of love where you'll do anything! for the person, and they for you. it's not a love that can be described on paper or in the written word. it's a love that needs to be shown in who you are and what you do for the person. true love just grabs you, and the person is so special, that no matter what, they hold a special place in your heart for as long as you live.
Liz, couldn't agree with you more.
to me love is more then hormones, even if u haven't seen that person for a long time u miss them and all ways wonder how their doing. You can say u love someone but the question is what r u willing to do for that person. Yes love is what u feel but it can all so be expressed in your actions. It's endless and when u least expect it. it sneaks up on u sometimes u don't see it comming at u. the feelings come naturally, easy, u don't have to work hard and convince yourself that u love that person it just happends. love is love for a brother or a lover just different ways of expressing it, it to me it takes someone mature , someone who knows what they truely want for themselves r the ones that know what love is. of course to be loved u have to love yourself first for someone to love u back.
I explained it in another board, but I'll answer your other question here. No, I didn't always define love this way, as I just didn't know what it meant exactly or rather how to denote it and was confused about it. I knew after I read this great author.