Let's talk about LOVE!

[Oddball]

love is a combination about interconnectivness and thinking about the group. It needs to be a symbiotic relationship, were you think about the needs of the other, without neglecting your own

 

[Dalph]

It's something that changes you inside, everything change its meaning thanks to it, what looked important before it's no longer important anymore and it's replaced by something that you would never have imagined existed. Love is joy and passion...it's something inside us, and even if we aren't able to express it fully sometimes, we can feel that it's there. True love for someone cancels your worries, and with the other person you feel like you're invincible. I can write a lot about it but I'll say only that: true love may not be explained, but only lived.

 

[Bukarett]

Love is such a complex and elaborate notion, that the truth is it means something completely different to everyone. It varies throughout our lives depending on whom or where we place it.

With this statement in mind, Love for me means putting your trust into someone else hands, devoting yourself and willing to change. It's making mistakes and learning from them, being able to accept yours as well as your loved ones flaws. It's doing little things like telling someone you love them in the most unexpected moment, it's listening and respecting their opinion, being brutally honest when cared ones eyes are overshadowed by their arrogance. It's going through a painful situation and NOT giving up. It's sacrificing your dreams for your children. It's not forgetting them, it's not about buying this feeling or any material things. It's not about pressuring them, but letting them choose. Love is unconditional and every growing.

This is my description and I'm sure it will expand and alter throughout my short period of existence in this world, but for now, this is it. 

Spoiler

With this all being said  (and the fact that I had 3 beers and I'm not afraid to say this publicly), I really do love that italian guy above me.

 

[Frostyfirefly]

I'm still speechless about love, it's just too complex for me to put into words at the moment; however, I will share something funny about some people's conception about it.

I used to have an acting teacher, and I would always laugh at the way he encouraged certain expressions on his students. For example, during a romance scene, he would say "Come on girl, act like you are in love, even though love doesn't exist!" or "Show me that smile, as if you love him, even though we all know love is complete crap!" 

He probably had many, many negative romantic experiences, but still, it was really quirky how couldn't simply give directions without adding that last "love does not exist" part.

Either way, I hope none of us end up as dissapointed in love as him. 

 

[doncht]

Love is their when you put your partner first before yourself. Like you would do anything for them even if it makes yourself the second priority. 

 

[whitesphere]

@FrostyFirefly

I feel bad for your acting teacher.  He's been hurt and now lives deep within a hurt story inside his head, probably blaming himself for what happened, though he'd deny it until his dying day. 

To me, love is something which encompasses yet goes far beyond words.  It's shown through our actions, sometimes just by being there, holding space, accepting something precisely as it (or s/he) is.  At the same time, it's always within us, like a single, sustained note, often so quiet we can barely hear it, but it is the very essence which defines us as beings.

As we grow as individuals, we learn to let that inner love flow outwards most clearly, by removing all of the obstacles WE have set inside ourselves to it.    Possessiveness, judgement and conditions all come from fear, not from that inner love, no matter how they are worded.

And St. Augustine said it very simply:  "Love, and do what you will."  He was speaking in a religious context, but it applies to everything, really, at its best.

But I feel love is about honoring others as much as yourself --- not above, not below, but in a way that goes beyond comparison of one to another.  It's a feeling of completeness, wholeness, a feeling of coming home, even though you never truly left.

 

[Deathspecter]

My relationship with food is true love 

Now seriously, talking by my experience, true love is something hard to describe.

The best way I can describe it is that unexplainable feeling I get everytime my girlfriend smiles to me, everytime she hugs me and touches me and of course everytime she kisses me. It is so good that I just forget about absolutely everything else.

A tiny split of my lifetime that makes all the remainder worth it 

 

[SamDoodler]

Wow. This i the kind of topic that makes me wish i visited the forums more XD

I'm not sure I can add much to what has already been said, especially with what very little experience I have (seriously, the closest thing I ever came to loving is cats). This is probably due to my condition that stops me from getting close to people (schizoid, anyone?). 

But anyways, here is my take. I think that love stems from friendship, and is a combination of attachment, acceptance and interest. Interest is easy to come by, and mainly depends on your taste. Of course, some traits that you discover later about your lover can deflate that interest. But it can also vanish with time. And that's where attachment comes in. Attachment is when that person is too big a part of your life. Maybe they make you feel safe, maybe they make you happy every now and then, you just get attached to them. They become the norm, an indispensable part of your life, causing their needs to be almost as important as yours, sometimes even more. Because your survival slightly depends on theirs. Acceptance is what ties attachment and interest together. If, or rather when, you discover a unlikable trait in your partner, but choose to accept it, or at the very east tolerate it, then your relationship continues. Acceptance is generally an important part that you need to include in your perspective of people. Obviously, other things are a part of this "love" concept, such as chemistry and physical attraction. But the first three are probably the most important.

Aaaaaaand that's it for this random teenager with no experience to speak of in the first place. I feel like I have rambled a bit too much, but meh, not like I have better (by which I mean I actually feel like doing) things to do.

 

[King Sangos]

Love is awesome!

If you want me to elaborate, let me know.

 

[♥SOURCE♥]

- "Do you know what Love is?"

 

Many organic meatbags find that question difficult to answer, Master, but I believe I can provide you with a satisfactory definition.

 

Definition: "Love" is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope.

 


Statement: This definition, I am told, is subject to interpretation. Obviously, love is a matter of odds.

 

Not many meatbags could make such a shot, and strangely enough, not many meatbags would derive love from it.


 

Yet for me, love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticule, and together, achieving a singular purpose... against statistically long odds.