What Love Really Is

Monday, September 28, 2009
What Love Really Is Category: Romance and Relationships
Love is a complicated and misunderstood feeling and emotion. Many, even at old age, struggle to comprehend what it really is.

When you're young you fight the newly found emotion. Many of us, who have had our share of misfortune in relationships choose to give up on this the most beautiful yet complicated of feelings. But its not that hard to realize what it is.

Its So simple. Its the recognition of somebody. Somebody that when youre feeling the lowest of the low, takes time out of their day to ask you how are. The feeling you get when you realize that person will lay down their life for you, no questions asked. Loyalty and Respect and Trust come with Love. Its an emotion not unlike a rose, that if left un nurtured, it will die.

Love constantly needs to be acknowledged. Love constantly needs to be rekindled. People get too used to things and their significant other. They stop trying. They act stupid. They lie. Betray. Love lays forgotten. New emotions take place. Resentment. Anger. Jealousy. All because the Love was pushed aside, forgotten for a moment. And in those crucial moments, it withered. And finally died.

Like all things, living...leave them without nourishment and they too, will wither and die, never to come back. We take it for granted, and we fail to remember that its a beautiful thing. Its the thing that made us happy in the first place. There is no reason why it should not continue to make us happy forever.

Love takes dedication and hard work. It goes both ways. Once you feel it in your heart, its there to stay. Its not as confusing as people think. The only thing that confuses and clouds judgement is fear. Fear becomes an obstacle for Love. People expect it. People demand it. But it just comes to you. By actions. Kind Words. A kiss. A touch. A look your significant other gives you. And Love lasts as long as you want it to last. Could be a lifetime. Could be a week

.People have grown too accustomed to Love. Its something that "comes or goes". No. It will leave you if you dont take care of it. Just like anything else, dont take care of something valuable and see how quickly you lose it. Take time out of your day to just hug your loved one and remind them of how you feel. Because those little touches and signs of affection are exactly what Love is made of.

Love isnt stupid. People are stupid. Love doesnt hurt. People use Love to hurt others. Keep on working on it. Keep on doing the big things and the little things, sweet little nothings that no matter how miniscule, they matter a lot. And those things, will remind you, of why you fell in love in the first place.

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