What is Love, really?
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Love is giving someone the power to destroy you, and trusting them to not.
Or at least, part of it is.
Love is being with someone and wanting to be with them for a long time to come.
Love is being able to stay with someone at their worst, otherwise you don't deserve them at their best.
Love can be beautiful. Love can be strong.
It can also flip like a coin when scorned and turn into hate, just as strongly.
Love is commitment, reliability, happiness, smiles, laughter, companionship, and unconditional trust.
You have my best wishes and condolences about the situation, there are not words to describe just how disgusting betrayal is.
I'm in love, at the moment. Been with my partner for ten months. In love for nine and a half.
I've felt pain in the past too though. I hope to not feel it again.
Love is like.. a house. First you have to build the foundations of the relationship. Then you have to build the walls to define what principles you share about commitment. Then you open doors together, exploring deeper into what the two of you can achieve. And love never reaches a limit. You can always expand, explore, and keep building and reinforcing.
At least, this is what I think. I'm a bit of a romantic sometimes.
Or at least, part of it is.
Love is being with someone and wanting to be with them for a long time to come.
Love is being able to stay with someone at their worst, otherwise you don't deserve them at their best.
Love can be beautiful. Love can be strong.
It can also flip like a coin when scorned and turn into hate, just as strongly.
Love is commitment, reliability, happiness, smiles, laughter, companionship, and unconditional trust.
You have my best wishes and condolences about the situation, there are not words to describe just how disgusting betrayal is.
I'm in love, at the moment. Been with my partner for ten months. In love for nine and a half.
I've felt pain in the past too though. I hope to not feel it again.
Love is like.. a house. First you have to build the foundations of the relationship. Then you have to build the walls to define what principles you share about commitment. Then you open doors together, exploring deeper into what the two of you can achieve. And love never reaches a limit. You can always expand, explore, and keep building and reinforcing.
At least, this is what I think. I'm a bit of a romantic sometimes.
Then my every daily interaction with my family and fiancee is "damn rare." I also rarely find any of my love-motivated actions to have anything to do with sexual desire where my fiancee is involved. And I am more than a "simple" animal, because there is nothing simple about the human condition. There is nothing simple about emotions either, it's never as straight-forward as "stimulus begets response."IBlackKiteI said:
Now to explain myself a little better. I love my fiancee, yes. I also love my sister. I also love my brothers. I also love my parents. I also love my dog. I only have sexual desire for one of them, but how I qualify love is that they are all family to me.
depends on which love your talking about, like i love my mom, dad, cat, brother, and sister. in that case it's worth it because it's unconditional and that's a freebie.Project_Omega said:
the love between a man and a women (not strictly speaking, of course), i would say, is a combination of the above, except there's much less, but it's balanced out by lust. but is it worth it? i dunno, i honestly entertain the thought of being a recluse; because this "love" seems so trivial, and has created so many annoying hopeless romantics that i'm content on staying a bachelor if it stops me from becoming some angsty dramatic.
btw sorry 'bout your girlfriend, i'm sure that really sucks.
Chemical reactions? Really people, are we that jaded? Do we have to deconstruct things to a level where we feel secure in our pessimism?
What is love? Love is contentment, where all fears and worries disappear and there is only a warm sensation in your body and you feel it impossible not to smile. It's a feeling of overwhelming understanding and truth. It can last a moment or a lot longer. It's like getting up after an incredible nights sleep. It's like suddenly there is a god and he really is staring down at you like you are a newborn child and there's an expression just like you see on parents faces in movies. I could just die in those moments.
What is love? Love is contentment, where all fears and worries disappear and there is only a warm sensation in your body and you feel it impossible not to smile. It's a feeling of overwhelming understanding and truth. It can last a moment or a lot longer. It's like getting up after an incredible nights sleep. It's like suddenly there is a god and he really is staring down at you like you are a newborn child and there's an expression just like you see on parents faces in movies. I could just die in those moments.
Well that's a bit difficult to analyze, but for me personally I thought that Ayn Rand summed it up pretty well in the Virtue of Selfishness:
Life is about enjoying yourself, and love IS enjoying yourself. In the short life we have we just have to enjoy our time as much as possible whilst we're around to enjoy it. Love - as previous posts have mentioned - is fucking amazing to experience, and just because it's not this ethereal and depthless unexplainable phenomenon doesn't mean it's not worthwhile. Similary, just because you feel bad as a result of the experience, surely the whole experience of love and loving someone was worth it - even if the person you loved wasn't. Life isn't about logic and reason unless logic and reason makes you happy.
I'm just going throw out two quotes that can explain what I'm trying to say better than I can:
"Positive emotion trumps negative emotion every time."
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"It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all"
In my opinion love is worth it, of course.
I'm just going throw out two quotes that can explain what I'm trying to say better than I can:
"Positive emotion trumps negative emotion every time."
&
"It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all"
In my opinion love is worth it, of course.
Love is pure insanity. Worth it? Fuck yeah.
There has actually been some studies on it that indicates that the rationalism of a persons decisions when in love is frighteningly similar to the rationalism of someone insane.
I won't dig around for it, but it's out there somewhere.
There has actually been some studies on it that indicates that the rationalism of a persons decisions when in love is frighteningly similar to the rationalism of someone insane.
I won't dig around for it, but it's out there somewhere.
What is love? It all depends on the person really. It's either the greatest single emotion known to mankind, something in order to survive, or , to the jaded, the greatest thing to bring a person to their knees.
Is it worth it? Hell if I know. It's all about giving a piece of you to them that they never asked for, so it's really a matter of how much are you willing to give to them.
Is it worth it? Hell if I know. It's all about giving a piece of you to them that they never asked for, so it's really a matter of how much are you willing to give to them.
I'm understanding that when you say "love". You exclusively mean the gushy, romantic kind.
Whether you believe in chemical reactions, or Hollywood magic is up to you. In practice, you'll feel the same either way...
Personally, I think it's something worth taking a gamble on at least a few times in your life. I refuse to elevate it to the levels of imperative that many would, but it's worth trying...at least long enough for you to figure out whether it is for you or not.
That's not to say you live a loveless life if you fail. You have family, you can make friends...
"Love" is surely broader than romance alone.
Whether you believe in chemical reactions, or Hollywood magic is up to you. In practice, you'll feel the same either way...
Personally, I think it's something worth taking a gamble on at least a few times in your life. I refuse to elevate it to the levels of imperative that many would, but it's worth trying...at least long enough for you to figure out whether it is for you or not.
That's not to say you live a loveless life if you fail. You have family, you can make friends...
"Love" is surely broader than romance alone.
Love: a cocktail of neurochemicals, primarily epinephrine and dopamine, which makes people act like idiots, and do things running contrary to their mental, physical, and financial well-being.
Basically it all comes down to opinion. Some people are willing to weather so much crap when it comes to love based purely on some foolish belief they will eventually find that one person who makes it all worth it.cthulhumythos said:
I would consider love to be worth it if there was some assurance I would actually get it. Say if you put in X amount of effort into it, you would get someone who loves you. But one person could put in no effort and get someone who loves them, while another person could put in a ton of effort and wind up with nothing. It is for that reason, I cannot see love as worth it.
Didn't think I'd find another fan of There She Is!! on The Escapist... I'm quite pleasantly surprised, to say the least.geldonyetich said:
I can't answer what love is, to be honest. But is it worth it? Yes.
Yea, it hurts sometimes. I was with my first "love" for quite a while before she ended up dumping me for who I thought was one of my best friends. But, you live and learn. You grow as a person from experiences such as these.
They do hurt, no one in their right mind would say otherwise. But you'll get through it, and you'll come out the other side a stronger person. Trust me (as much as you can trust some random on the internet, at least
).At this point, I feel that Imogen Heap is relevant.<youtube=S3R0RHNHaU4>
I really rather like this song... Starts kind of slowly, but if you're gonna listen, listen to the whole thing. ^_^
Love is a bond you feel towards someone that can make you lose all sense and reason. It's practically a madness.
Love is a biological cocktail of chemicals designed to throw you together with someone long enough for you to have kids with them. Depressing but true.
*Intense thinking*
Alright, im gonna be frank here, I have no bloody clue what love is. I haven't loved anyone or anything. not even my mother and father hold a significant place in my heart/mind/emotions. Honestly, i cant answer any of your questions about love, and im more or less posting to inform you that there is some off handed way to dealing with the heartache. then again, i might be a sociopath to a minor degree...
Alright, im gonna be frank here, I have no bloody clue what love is. I haven't loved anyone or anything. not even my mother and father hold a significant place in my heart/mind/emotions. Honestly, i cant answer any of your questions about love, and im more or less posting to inform you that there is some off handed way to dealing with the heartache. then again, i might be a sociopath to a minor degree...