Love? Love is Beautiful

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King, Jr

When I was a teenager, I thought love hurt. I thought that love was when you love someone so much it hurt. When I was young, I thought love was disgusting.You know I went through that boys have cooties phase. I think most of us went through that phase. When we separated ourselves from the opposite sex. I realized that love come in many different forms, the love you have for your significant other, the love you have for your friend, the love you have for you family, and even the love you have for a stranger. Love is more than affection and, butterflies in your stomach. I just realized that. Love doesn’t hurt, and it’s a choice.

You can see people love each other everywhere you go. You can see love when a mother hold her child. You can see it when a person is by their friend side, when they a crying. You can see it when someone is helping a person take their groceries to their car.

When someone loves you, they don’t hurt you intentionally. People who love you uplift you, they don’t try to bring you down. They help you out all they can. People who love you make sacrifices for you. When your friend can be doing something else like watching “Dr Who” they are actually at your house comforting you because one of your loved ones dies. Your boyfriend might miss the football game just so he can spend time with you. Instead of having a girls night out, your girlfriend decides that she wants to spend time with you by playing your favorite video game. Remember how you parents went to every sports event, or any event that you had at school or your community? They wanted to see you. Why? Because they loved you.They probably wouldn’t be there if it wasn’t for you. They probably tried to get off work and, make room in their schedule, just to see you. That’s one way to tell that your parent love you.Taking care of someone when they are sick, is love. Saying “I love you” is love, while you are also showing them how much you love them

To me love is when you care for someone. Love is acts of kindness for a person you care about, and/or have deep feelings for. Love is also caring for someones needs. Love is being there for them. Love is the base in every friendship, and relationship. A friendship without love is is just being aquantances. A serious relationship without love is just infatuation.

That brings us to that question. Is love a feeling? Well “falling in love” is a feeling but it can fade in my opinion. “Being in love” is a choice. “Falling in love” is just another way of saying that you are infatuated. Sexual attraction is part of it also. You have a choice to stay in love in a romantic relationship. Relationships take work. The way you treat each other in an relationship will either bring you two closer together or push you two apart. It is up to the both of you, if you want to become closer or grow apart.

Love is a bond that brings people together. That is what makes love beautiful and, that is what makes love a force. That is what makes it more powerful than hate. That is what Martin Luther King Jr. meant when he said this  “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King, Jr

Love is so powerful it can get rid of hate. Love doesn’t hurt, if it does then it is not love. If you hurt the people you love unintentionally and, intentiontionally, say you are sorry and, don’t do what you did again. Responsibilities come with relationships but if you are willing to be that persons lover, or that persons friend it would be worth it. Love is what brings us together. Show the people in your life that you love them through actions and, words. Do something nice for them and for strangers. It is okay to love strangers too. Love is beautiful. Love others and accept the love others give to you.

What is Love? Core of love.

Warning: This is just an opinion.

What is love?

Remember my last blog, I talked about how a childhood friend of mine is getting married. That got me thinking about love. What is love? How do you know you’re in love? Is love real? If you asked me 6 months ago my answer would be love is not real. What I went through when I was younger probably shaped my view a little. Not a little, a lot. If you asked me if I thought love was real now, i would have to say yes. Love is something that starts out as infatuation and then turns into actions. The reason why I think a lot of people break-up and get a divorce is because they have forgotten how to love or not willing to love that person anymore.

People think love is when the person you are with buy you flowers and candy. That’s not what love is. Sure that is what they do for the ones they love but that doesn’t prove how much they love you. Imagine this. You have a puppy, and you love that puppy so much, you would protect it and take care of it. Not just because you have to but because you want to. You would be there for that puppy no matter what.  You probably can’t imagine that puppy not being by your side.That’s what love is.

They’re different types of love but what I just explained is the core. What I’m trying to say is love is when you are willing to protect that person, take care of that person, support that person, and be there for that person. Not just because you have to but because you want to. You can find the core of love in many types of love.

Lets get to the question. How do you know when you are in love? Someone said when you don’t have to answer that question. I guess that means.

In my opinion if you are willing to do those things I have mentioned and your significant other is willing to do the things I mentioned, you are in love.

If you trust your significant other to do the things that I have mentioned, you are in love.

If you think your significant other is the most attractive person you have ever seen in your entire life and they feel the same way. On top of that you are willing to do the things that I have mentioned. Congratulations you are in love.

Don’t forget you should be best friends with your significant other too because you should be able to talk to them and have fun.

I never been in love yet. I been through the falling part but never been in love. All I know is I have friends and family that are willing to protect me, support me, and take care of me when I need them, and I would do the same. That is how I know they love me, and I love them.