Love is very complex. There is no one definition for the word love. There are many characteristics of love, though. Most describe love as putting someone else's needs before yours and caring about them to an unfathomable amount. Love is when you would do anything to see the other person happy or when you would sacrifice your own happiness just to get them to smile. Love is when you can go through Hell and back with someone and still look at them and know that you could never in your life stop caring for them, no matter what selfish or terrible things they have done. Although there isn't one true definition for love, there are many parts that add up to create the love that we as humans feel.
There are two different kinds of love, as I see it. There is the kind of love you have with your friends and family. The love where even though your mom slept for half an hour last night she would still make you cinnamon rolls before you go to school if you asked. Or the love between your friends when you are having a bad day and they do something sweet to surprise you. And there are many ways to show this kind of love that people do not always think about. Your dad telling you to put on your seatbelt or your friend texting you to see if you are okay when you didn't show up for school. These are things that are very overlooked in our world but show the true compassion of love for one another.
Then there is the love between two people. The special bond you get when you truly could picture yourself spending your life with one person. This love is hard to find but once you find it you never let it go. No matter what happens you still want that person to be by your side. This is the love where you ache to be together all the time, you crave the other persons attention almost. You would do absolutely anything to make the other person happy, even if it means completely losing your own happiness, or even yourself. This kind of love can be wreckless and has destroyed many people, but it can also be the best thing that you will ever experience. It can be the reason you dont drive into a tree when you feel like life has nothing left for you or the reason you can manage to get up in the early morning. This kind of love often seems common but isn't, as we can tell by divorce rates. But when this love is truly found it cannot ever be stopped.
I agree with your different versions of love and your definitions of the loves. But your cinn-o-bun reference is perhaps the best way to describe love! Yes love can be very powerful as you say and can be very destructive as well. Love can also come in many different small ways too like asking someone to put their seat belt on like you typed.
ReplyDeleteI like how you just divided up love into only two solid definitions/types. Just to add on your post, I think platonic love is more focused on loyalty and everyday acts of kindness. While "true love", though much more rare, is more focused on devotion and can cause recklessness. I agree that the love from family and friends is much more common than romantic love.
ReplyDeleteI too like how you showed the difference between Family/friend love and love for a spouse. I enjoyed and agree with the part about romantic love and how it can either make you feel amazing yet if not handled the right way can wreck you and has with many people. True love isn't really as common in our generation as it used to be like you said it isn't common and I would have to agree with that.
ReplyDeleteI agree with all the different versions of love as well. I had many of the same ideas in my blog post and other writings about love. I like how you went really into detail on all the different kinds of love and gave each one their own paragraph. This was a really good post:)
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