Monday, January 13, 2014
Love
Historically, love has been one of the most difficult concepts to define. Almost everyone seems to have a different perception of what it means. Write a 300 word piece that explores, in detail, your perception of the concept of love. It is due at the end of tomorrow's class. It should be free of errors, especially since I am giving you two class periods to do it.
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Damian grunted with effort as he pleaded with his body to give him some of what he’d been without for god knew how long. He felt it faintly in his veins, but it was so faint he almost didn’t even bother trying. These guys were trying to help him, though. The least he could do was try.
ReplyDeleteHe looked at the ground and focused at a point in between his legs. A small, purple-black ball began to rise and expand from the ground. The men noticed Damian staring at the floor and followed his gaze. Before they could panic and ruin his focus, he struggled and croaked out
“Void ball. Sucks up anything that hits it. We go inside.”
The men exchanged apprehensive glances as Damian opened up the top of the ball and increased the diameter so that it surrounded them. Slowly but surely, it rose above them and enclosed them. Looking out at the now purple tinted base, the three of them opened the door and took off.
Immediately they heard bullets ringing off of metal and whizzing by. Taking cover behind computer desks and command consoles were men in full Syndicate armor and men wearing strange jungle camouflage that Damian didn’t recognize. They were clearly not on the same side. One of the men carrying him nearly tripped over a body, which when Damian saw it he swore he almost passed out. It was a mage. There were many of them, bodies strewn all over the room. What the hell had he missed?
Suddenly the bubble around them dissolved and Damian felt a sharp pain in his right arm. He flinched and fell to the floor, the man holding his left side not expecting all of Damian’s weight. Damian clenched his teeth and kept pressure on the wound as the man on the left helped him back up. The man that had been on the right was ahead of them at a window that looked out from the side of the cliff they were on. He used the butt of his sniper to break the glass and waved them over to him.
Damian knew what they were planning, and he knew they wouldn’t survive. Sliding down a Cliffside? What the hell kind of solution was that? Before he could even open his mouth in protest, Damian was horrified to find that he was the first one to go down.
This continues to get more and more intriguing.
DeleteLove is the most admirable abstract noun there is…at least for me. Love is a strong feeling; love is the strongest sentiment one can feel towards another person. This tender emotion is capable of making one crazy things. There are different kinds of love—romantic, brotherly, or even the love one feels for ones parents. Regardless, love means putting another before one’s self. If you would do almost anything for someone, it is probably because you love him or her. Throughout history and literature we see different kinds of love provoking people to do things imagined to be stupid. That’s the thing about love though—it knows no limits. In the play Antigone, Sophocles does a great job in portraying what even love between siblings is capable of causing. Antigone, for the love she felt for her deceased brother, she refused to allow his death is dishonored. She was even willing to suffer a death penalty for the sake of having his body properly buried. Ismene, her sister, for the love she had for Antigone was willing to take the blame for her action and suffer the consequences. Love is also capable of making people, in a sense, irrational. We see examples of this in love stories such as the classic, Romeo and Juliet. In this case, love is so strong that it causes some to commit suicide just because they don’t think they can live without that person they feel this great amount of affection for. Personally, love is something mutual. I think you can only love someone who shows it back and makes you feel like they feel the same way. Yes, you can actually love someone who has faked their love the whole time. This is just a belief though. I think when someone hurts you enough, the love you once felt is capable of washing out. I think this occurs in levels though…you’re closer to losing the love once it becomes clear that just because you love somebody doesn’t mean you NEED them. Even though, as a “hopeless romatic” I wish it would, I don’t think love is always eternal.
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DeleteI like your statement about love having to be mutual to exist. Your references to Antigone are insightful as well.
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ReplyDeleteLove is perceived, all too often, as simply caring about someone (one person in particular) more than you care about anyone else. What people don’t realize is how much more there is to it. And a common misconception about love is that you can only be in love with one person.
ReplyDeleteLove comes in many forms. The love a big brother has for his younger sister. The love a mother has for her children. The love you have for a dog you’ve had since you were a kid. The love you have for your best friend. And of course the love you have for your significant other. They’re all love, they’re just different kinds.
Love means you’ll always be there for someone, no matter what. Once a person said to me, “If there’s ever a time, ever that you need me, I’ll be there. I’ll always be there for you, no matter what.” And although that person and I have had our differences, they always kept their word, and they were there every time I needed them. That is love. To be there for someone, even if you aren’t friends with them anymore, because you love them.
Love is protecting people in their time of need. Like when my friend was going through a really big rough patch in her life. I felt like her guard dog, and I snapped at anyone that even looked at her the wrong way. I’d have killed for her, and that’s love.
Love is still caring about someone at their worst. Someone I was very close with used to have really severe panic attacks. He’d call me at ridiculous times of the night and sometimes I’d have to talk to him for hours until he calmed down, but I never let the phone just ring. I never missed a call, no matter what time, because I loved him.
Love is a mother watching her newborn child sleep.
Love is knowing it’s time to say goodbye. My dog, the dog I’d had since I was two years old finally had to be put down when she was fourteen. She’d had a great run, but we knew it was time to put her down. I came home from school, and there was no one home but me and her. I’m not ashamed to say that I got down on my knees, threw my arms around her and told her that I’d miss her. I loved her, and I loved her enough to make sure I let her know how much she meant to me. Just because she was a dog didn’t mean she didn’t understand. Even animals understand love.
The love that most people think they know is the love between a man and a woman, but even that they don’t fully understand. That kind of love is all of the other kinds of love combined and then some. You have to be able to protect them, be there for them, see them at their worst, and be able to realize that problems can be worked through. This kind of love is when you look each other in the eye, or hold each other in your sleep, or listen to one another laugh and realize that more than anything you want to be with them and only them for the rest of your life.
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DeleteWell-said. I'd love to use this for The Spectrum
DeleteLove is a hard thing to describe. You can’t be taught how to love you just feel it. Love is something you can feel and see when you look at a certain person. When I look at my family I see love, and I feel it. It takes a while to know if you really love someone. It’s different for family because they are the people that are there with you since birth and you know you love them. It takes time to know if you really love the person you’re with like your boyfriend or girlfriend. Most people once having a boyfriend or girlfriend say they love them way to quickly, but most don’t know what it is. Most just say it because they think they should and it’s what most people say in a relationship. They really don’t know what it means to them it’s just a saying, but it has a lot of meaning behind it. The word has lost its meaning over time, at one time love had a powerful meaning and was used only when it was felt, but today it’s just said like any other four letter word, and the meaning has lost its value. Love is when you look at someone and you feel different about them, they have become a part of your life, and know you, and accept you for who you are. Love isn’t just a word; it’s a word with strong meaning. When using the word love there should always be a reason why you love that person, it shouldn’t just be said just because you think it’s the right time to, it should be said when the love is felt. To some love is just a word with a small meaning, but to others its more than a word, it’s what they feel and mean.
ReplyDeleteThe definition of Love says that it is an intense feeling of deep affection, but is it really? What is Love? Love can be described in different ways. When my sister was younger, she was asked, what does love mean and her response was that Love is when my brother gives me the last piece of pizza because he knows I’m really hungry. But what does love really mean? People describe it as when you look at someone and you fall in love or loving your family but that’s always the same thing. I believe Love is when you come home from a long day, either from school, work, or whatever and you are having a really bad day, and you walk through the door and you see your family. You look at your family members, whether it is your brother, your sister, mom, or your dad and they know right away that you are having a bad day and they try to cheer you up. They try to be funny and make you feel better and you end up enjoying it. You look around you say to yourself how happy you are with the life you live and who is in your life. Honestly, in my opinion, it makes everything better. But there is also another form of love and that’s when you can feel your heart breaking inside of you. It’s like when someone you really care about passes away and you can actually feel your heart breaking into tiny pieces because you are just so crushed that they are gone. You can feel it in your chest and in your stomach. You can tell that something is changing you know you don’t like it. That’s when you know you were in Love. You loved someone and now that they are gone, you can feel it breaking inside of you. So many people view love differently, but I guess we don’t know what love really is.
ReplyDeleteLove is a tricky thing. It’s intoxicating. It’s in your thoughts, your heart grasping at all logic until there’s nothing left but itself. We all seek for love, to be loved. What would the world be like if love were nonexistent? People would throw away any care for each other. One could say that love is what makes the world go round. Although love is a beautiful emotion that makes people do wonderful, amazing, courageous things it also has it’s dark side. Love can cause people to lose all sight of what’s right and what’s wrong. It can make people set out for revenge, for the pain of others. However, love can send one down a winding path of great experiences that changes them forever. It can open the heart and mind to things a person would never consider trying or doing before.Love does not only flow through the hearts of two. Love knows no gender, no race, no person;love comes from the soul. For me loving someone means that you not only accept them for everything they do right but everything they do wrong too. Love is when you’re willing to do anything to see a smile on that persons face. Love is when you feel completely happy and carefree. Many times love can be confused with infatuation, but I guess they feel the same. People that have been in love and are hurt in the process say that love hurts. I don’t really think it’s love that hurts;it’s being lied to, unfaithfulness, and rejection that hurts. Love is the one thing that’s capable of making all the pain go away, love heals. To be honest, love doesn’t have one concrete definition and it never will. The emotion, the feeling is too complicated to wrap your head around and to put into words.
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ReplyDeleteWhat is love?
Everyone has their own perception of it
Some say it’s that fuzzy feeling you get in your stomach
Those butterflies that erupt when you hold hands
That twinkle you gain in your eye when you see them
But to me
What is love?
Love isn’t exactly something you get hit with
Love is something that has to build
It’s something that has to bubble and grow within
Deep down inside of you
Love
It’s that feeling of when you see someone you’re just content
You’re perfectly fine with who they are
You accept them for all they are
You know that they have flaws and you keep them around despite those
You understand those flaws don’t define them
What is love?
It’s that thing that makes you want to have -no wait- need them around
It’s that warmth you get from knowing they won’t leave you
Love is when you don’t have to cry alone
Love is when you can tell them everything and you won’t be turned away
Love is when nothing will hold you back from being with them
Love
It isn’t about the skin
Love is about everything deep within
To love someone you have to love all of them
Body, Mind, Soul, Everything
Love isn’t about obsession
Love isn’t having to track their every breath
Love is you being happy that they are still breathing
What is love?
Love is when you give them something before they ask you for it
Love is when they get hurt and you feel a pang in your heart
Love is knowing that they are human just like you
Love is knowing that they’ll screw up just like you will
Love isn’t putting them on a pedestal
Love is about never giving up
Love is about persevering through any storm you both may enter
Love
It’s not that copyrighted thing you read about in books
It’s not what you see in the sappy movies and shows
Love is not two actors reading a heartfelt scrip
Love is so much more entertaining than that filth
Even if you haven’t experienced love you can see it in others
You can see it deep in someone’s eyes when you mention that person
It’s the way they snap to attention when you speak about them
It’s how their heart flutters when you say the person’s name
It’s the small smile they gain when they think about that person
Hmm love?
I don’t believe in falling in love
I don’t even believe you can love more than one significant other
Of course there are multiple forms
BUT
When you walk into love, true love there is no way out
You can have love for someone
And then
There is being in love with someone
Not many know the difference but in time they will
So to end this, what is love?
Love is something real and scary
Love is something that comes in many different forms
And can be felt in many different ways
Love is….
Beautiful
And REAL love is something I wish more people could experience
I wish it was something more people could understand
Love; a deep desire for someone or something- A feeling like no other- a feeling that comes without effort, without even a single thought to feel- yet it is an emotion so powerful that it can take over ones entire being. It seems to be, that the word ‘love’ is tossed around quite often on several different occasions; I believe that love has no definite meaning. Love comes in many forms and many stages, and with each circumstance, the feeling of love differentiates. Love can be as simple as the desire for a piece of clothing to a specific entree at a restaurant, to the complex feeling a being holds towards another. The love a mother or father has for their child- the love a being has for a job, a hobby, a sport- the love one acquires for a special someone- the love a child holds toward a sibling- love goes without question of right or wrong. The meaning of ‘love’ is indefinite- it’s infinite. To feel love- to love- and to be loved- all generate a unique feeling- a feeling that cannot be duplicated nor cloned. I believe that each person feels love in a different way that is designed solely for them, because we as humans all have different outlooks on situations and different perspectives of the world around us. Furthermore, I see love as an escape from troubles, a place where one can go without judgment. However, love can also hurt. If you’ve never experienced the pain of a broken heart, or the pain from a loss, you cannot understand what exactly it is to love. To love, is knowing when to let go- love is knowing there are better days ahead- love is accepting all the flaws of life, yet continuing to thrive forward- love is simply, whatever you make of it. Quite honestly, I do not believe that one’s love for another can be put into words. The truest love is felt by the heart, where words do it no justice.
ReplyDeleteLove is impossible to define because it is so vast a topic and so simply complex. While others may use the word generously, I make sure to use it sparingly. For one, it is impossible to love everyone. If we had the ability to love all of humanity, then it would not be the truly special feeling it is. There are no specific requirements regarding love; it is not always as simple as writing a list. Oftentimes, love is confused with other emotions such as infatuation, adoration, admiration, or loneliness; but who is to say that love isn’t any of these emotions—constantly or occasionally? It all comes down to significance. How much does this person mean to me? It is certainly harsh to say that one person means absolutely nothing to another. “Absolutely nothing” is a strong way of putting it, and it is important for people to care about their fellow humans to some degree. Going about life self-absorbed and self-centered is no way to live. Therefore, the simple fact that they are not only humans but rather living, breathing souls should be enough to treat others humanely. However, love is not the way to describe one’s one-sided comradeship with all of humanity. It is a word saved for those who are there for you unconditionally, rain or shine, laughs or tears. To love is to feel everything for another person, whether it be anger, sadness, disappointment, or joy. Love is the full spectrum of life and the emotions that come with it. Regardless of how the battle is fought, a loved one will make certain that he is there to fight alongside you—win or lose. Of course there are exceptions to everything, and love, like many other things in life, can be one-sided or even dangerous—for it is not possible to choose who we love; but despite it all, love is worth it. For love may be the thorn in your side, the worry on your mind, the barrier keeping you from greatness; but it is always worth the effort expended—a feeling that can be held onto for the duration of time, always and forever.
ReplyDeleteI think your observation of love encompassing the full spectrum of emotions is really insightful. This is great.
DeleteLove? Am I too young? Many things cross my mind. When I was young there was only a couple things that I loved. My parents and my family were the only things that I thought I would ever love. Then I slowly got older and I learned that my feelings began to expand. It started from me foolishly thinking that I was in love with somebody and thinking that we were meant to be. Now looking back I notice that everything was a foolish part of my imagination. It was a crush and nothing more. I confused the idea of infatuation with the idea of love. Can I say that I do know what love is? In my opinion the word “love” is used too frequently in today’s world. It goes to a ten year old in their first “relationship” to an old couple that has more than forty years being together. Who do you think that has more experience with love? In my fantasy of love, I feel like it can bring many emotions into play such as jealously, which can be a part in many relationships. Love is something that can take some time to finally admit. It makes someone feel like they are no longer the person they thought they were. It opens the heart to feelings and ideas that never would cross the mind. It makes your heart race and you can slowly feel your body heat up. You feel like you can’t speak correctly, as if you are trying to speak English for the first time. You think your sweating but in reality you aren’t. You feel a type of way that you never felt around anyone before. When you see that person it revokes something inside of you and all you can do is stare at them. You look forward to talking to them even if its texting them, you will pull an all-nighter just to talk to them. All night all you do is think about them and wonder if they think about you the same way you think about them. Some nights you can’t fall in sleep because they won’t get out of your mind. All you want to know is if you even cross their mind. Then the whole feeling will once again come back once you see them, but yet this is just my imagination of what I believe what love will feel like.
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Your ideas about love making a person feel differently about themselves is intriguing.
Good job.
One of the hardest things for one to decide is whether or not they love someone. Love is word that many throw around without actually feeling it. The biggest confusing one makes is the difference between love and lust. Many think that they love someone when all it is, is lust. A person will be willing to risk everything just because they will think that they love someone. Love is more than just caring about someone greatly. Love is more than just wanting to be with someone all the time. Love is more than the effectuation stage. However, that’s where many people stop and then they call it love. But that’s not love; love is much more than that. There are also different types of love. There is a type of love that many have for their family, for me that’s the strongest. The type of love you have for your family is one that should never stop. It’s a type of love that would have you do anything to keep them safe. They type of love one has for their family should never be replaced with they love they have for someone else. Love for a significant other is much different. That’s the kind of love that has you head over heels for someone one minute and wanting to punch them the next. That’s all normal. The kind of love for them could never complete with the love that one has for their family. They are two very different loves that are important to a person. However they have different effects on one and they are developed much differently. To love a significant other takes time and a lot of trust, it doesn’t just come and if it does, that’s not real love. You are almost born into the love you have for your family. You are born knowing that, that’s your family; you automatically have a love for them just because they are your family. Over the years that may change, and ones view of their love for their family will be very different.
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"COMPETE, not COMPLETE"
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"JUST COME, AND IF"
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Very insightful observations. I agree with a lot of it. Great job.
Love means something very different for each and every individual. Love is a strong feeling of deep affection. There are many forms of love. The way you feel for a family member is different than when you meet that special someone. Love can make you do anything and sacrifice for what will be better in the end. Love is strong, and passionate. Everything seems happier and more wonderful when you're in love. Love needs acceptance of a person, as they are and not trying to change them. Being with someone through thick and thin is what you do when you love someone. It’s when you can't do anything without thinking about that person. You always want to be with them. An example of true love is the love me and Trey Songz have for each other. The fact that he’s waiting for me to turn 18 for us to be together is real love because he can’t be with the one he loves for about nine months. That’s hard for some people to do but he will do it because he truly loves me. Being in love means making sacrifices for that person. Love is when you look at someone and you feel different about them. They have become a part of your life and accept you for who you are. Love is when you’re willing to do anything to see a smile on that persons face. Love is when you feel completely happy and carefree with that person. Love is a very difficult thing to define and it has different meanings for everyone.
ReplyDeleteWell, the first half is awesome. And then...
DeleteLove is truly a difficult concept to define because it doesn’t have one set definition. Love means something different to every person. Love is an intense feeling of deep affection. Throughout the years books and movies have been written about love, the romance genre is probably the most popular something about love stories really intrigues people. Every love story is different. Everyone has their own experiences with love. Each situation is unique and important to the individuals. There are different types of love, like the way you love a family member versus a significant other. Love is having strong caring feelings for someone. Knowing what love is to you takes time because without that you can’t be certain if you feel love. Someone could know they are in love within a couple days and others will take years. Love can be confused with temporary happiness. An individual can receive attention and become happy or be tricked with false promises and think they feel love but it’s a lie. Love is so hard to define because it is so complex but that’s also what makes it so special. Love is not just one cut and dry thing. It is almost magical. Love can also be really simple by doing something nice for someone you care about. You don’t have to buy something huge and expensive to show you love someone, getting someone a bowl of soup when they are sick shows how much you care from them. Love is just so hard to put into words and explain it is a feel like no other. Whether it is something simple like soup and something major like getting married, love is there and it is important.
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ReplyDeleteSonnet XIX
If not t’ tear thy sorrows from thy grave heart,
Not to protect such love in that romance,
Ever does thou fall short in words of art,
Leaving love bruised and blocked with such hindrance,
Than from Her does pity take thou t’ depart,
In all feeling of flesh and mind left tart.
Ever thou of Her heart remains t’ be chaste,
For Her love is fallen from thou t’ be last.
Arms reaching for thy foulest soul, kindred
With Her’s it bonds closely within deaf lies;
Such masked emotion to breathe hated dread,
For daft are thou in thy promise to love,
Ever searching a heart coated in lead;
Romantic arts give reason for thou t’ rove.
Sonnet XX
Her beauty t’ measure does such t’ lock thy tact,
When laced with such romance to find thou lost
In those endless seas of falsified fact;
That which takes t’ label thou as merely host
To love; to cause thy failure to enact,
However much thou shall take in thy act.
Yet I take romance in my gentle find,
For Her beauty triumphs my tainted mind.
When thou ever make that ill part of me,
Such that I wish ever t’ take in challenge,
I do not take to think wrongly of thee;
For I love many as does thy vast heart,
T’ engulf each joy and sorrow of romance,
Ever when words establish rhyme t’ thy art.
love the line "endless seas of falsified fact. As always, excellent executions of the form.
DeleteLove can be anything one wants it to be. For me, love is a category, which has many subsets. The first love one experiences is that of family. The lucky ones are allowed to grow up with parental figures who show them the definition of unconditional love. Like all relationships, there are many stages and changes. As small children, we believe that mommy and daddy love us when they buy us our favorite cookie. When we enter our youth, we think that our parent’s love isn’t real because they won’t let us have fun with our friends. When we ourselves are adults, we finally begin to understand that through everything, our parents were expressing their love. It’s hard to understand love, at any age really. Sibling love is different than the love we feel for our parents. It’s okay to fight with them, even physically, because this is a form that many brothers and sisters use to express that they care.
ReplyDeleteAlthough we can’t choose our relatives, we can choose our friends. I believe your friends are the only people you can really choose to love. When you make friends, you are making a conscious decision. Even with friends, there can be different relationships. We all have friends who we see every day, along with those friends who we only speak to once a year. Either way, we love them the same.
We don’t get to choose the partner we love. And even with this kind of love, there may be many different suitors. Someone’s first love isn’t always their real love. And every relationship is different. People may love each other and live a happy life together, while not even being married. While an actual marriage can result in abusive love. Love has limitless definitions because the emotions and adventures it brings are infinite.
I like the "category with subsets" idea. Love as inifinite. I like it.
DeleteLove, I believe, can have various different meanings and that is why it is a difficult concept to define. One can express love towards an object, an idea, a person, but they are all different types of ‘loves’. Love is a very strong liking for something, a great fondness, or a deep affection towards somebody. One does not feel the same love for a book as they would for say a friend or their religion, for example. Love is what you make it to be, it is felt uniquely within each individual and to different extents. It is something felt, perceived, and expressed differently by each person. Love is a powerful feeling, I believe it possess the ability to mask all other sentiments that one feels. Love is potent; it is compelling, captivating, exciting, sometimes absorbing and even dangerous.
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes to loving a person, that type of love has many variations within itself. The same type of love is not felt towards one’s mother as compared to one’s sibling, for instance, or the love one may feel towards their best friend as oppose to their significant other.
Personally, I feel as though I have been capable of feeling all these different types of love and I am sure that there are many more that I have yet to feel, such as the love for one’s children and then grandchildren. The love I feel towards my mother is due to the extent that her love goes for me; she would do anything for me, she goes out of her way to make sure I am happy and have everything I need, I am so thankful for her and all of her efforts. The love I feel towards my brothers is very strong; I would give my life up for them and my mom, if it really came down to it. I want to see them prosper in every way possible and I care about them much more than anybody else because of the bond we share. The love and genuine care I have developed for my puppy was brought up by the happiness that he brings into my life. The love I feel towards my boyfriend is one I have not yet felt towards anybody else. It is special, it is exhilarating, sometimes even risky; it is just different, sort if indescribable. The special thing about love is that it can be felt right back, to the same or sometimes even a greater extent than the one you deliver or express towards a person.
Love, I think, has no limits but I do believe that it’s not necessarily eternal. Love, just as any other emotion or feeling, can fade, it can go away, but it does indeed have all the capability of lasting forever. Love is one of the most beautiful things in life that can be felt and returned and it is truly an amazing, almost undefinable concept.
ReplyDeleteLove as defined in the dictionary is a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
However, many people have different view in what love is to them. Love can range from falling in love with someone and calling them their soul mate and wanting to be with them forever to being someone worth dying for. For example some of the people closest to you family the people you live with for many years and will never forget. I would die for my mom, dad, or sister no matter what because I love them and I know they would do the same. I would do anything to save them because they mean something to me. But of course there are many types of views to what love is because some people would argue that nothing is worth dying for. Also love is not only to a person as seen in history. For instance during the revolutionary war the people would die just to get the colonies to be free from the king; like so in any other war the people that are fighting for something like freedom. Take for example the civil war that was a huge war more than 700,000 soldiers died during that war more than in any other war the United States of America has been in. The main reason for the war was slavery the south wanted to keep slaves and the north did not. Therefore the people were fighting for their freedom something that is worth dying for something that they love. Therefore love is an affection to anything that makes them happy not just another person. Love is something worth dying for.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/love?s=t
Love is undefinable. There is no set, single definition of love because love varies. There are infinite ways to love somebody or something; it is thanks to that that there is more than one dictionary definition. You can love someone like a brother or a child. You can love someone conditionally or unconditionally. You can love them and hate them at the same time. The only way some people can think of to describe love is through their actions. They will use phrases that describe actions which are measurements of how much they love someone/something. You would choose someone you love like family over everyone else because family comes first. When you love someone unconditionally, you would accept them completely (flaws and all). When two people are in love for the first time, they would say things like “I will never leave you” and that is how they choose to measure the intensity of their love. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Sometimes something is so intense and surreal that there are no words. You have to do the best you can when you are sidetracked with emotion. Love should not be tainted with words. Words can be misinterpreted and the meaning can get lost. Actions cannot be misinterpreted. When you do something, there’s no saying that it is not what you did. If you crossed an ocean on foot (highly unlikely? Yes.), no one can say that you flew across Africa like a bird. You went through the physical and mental struggle to do what you could to express your love for someone. If you are in love, you could write them a song and sing it to them outside their window. You did that because that is important to them and that is how much you care for and love them; no one can say otherwise. Words can be tested where actions cannot be.
ReplyDeleteLove. According to Dictionary.com, the term simply means “profoundly tender, passionate affection towards another person”. To the average person on the street it might mean something else, as in just to have a desire for the other person that one is affiliating with. But who knows the true definition to this mystery term. Who knows who is really right? No one. That is why there so many definitions to many different people. Who knows if it even exists? We tend to base our lives off of movies we see or books we read, but why? We say we want to live our own lives but we often end up copying someone else’s. The word love is more than just a word, it means that you will try harder to make the relationship better and even stronger as the days go by. It means that when you "love" someone you accept their flaws and their whole being as a person and still want to be with them even when their having bad days and in the worst moods. Saying that you love someone is saying that you will forgive them when bad things come there way. I believe that when you learn to forgive you can also learn to love. They kind of go together like two and two.
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