What is love?

fourdskate

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It may sound like a gay question, but how do you define love anyway? People always quantify it as this plateau that you can reach, but what qualifies it? Anyone have any standards they judge it on?
 
its what i was thinking as soon as i saw the title.

Love is a constellation of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection or profound oneness about something. Love is the strongest emotion that we have. Loving something is when you would never want to be without it. The word love gets tossed around alot these days but when you truly find it you will know.
 
do you figure that forgiveness is limitless in love? or that you could never really be happy without the person?
 
i also wonder if distance is really an issue. or if the philosophy or girl next door holds true, and you should make pursuing that one thing/person your number one priority?
 
Meh. I think the first love is the only love thing applies very strongly to the human psychy. Because in most cases, unless it was a rushed relationship when you were in 5th grade and you only held hands but called it love, you would have such a strong emotional attachment to this single, first person, who, even after you two split up, you always have a place in your soul for him/her.

That said, I believe that is just the premature, more true love, based purely on emotions and hormones, whereas the later, more rational and mature love, is based on many other factors other than sex appeal, and social compatability.

To support my statements, picture the millions of young people who fucked up their lives by falling in love early and pro-creating like rabbits, when they are 16. They are incredibly happy, and crazy in love with this first, true love, yet it was, as stated, premature.

 
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