The brain is composed of billions and billions of neurons that form its neural net. We tend to map emotions, thoughts and experiences through the laws of associative memory, wherein all memories and emotions are connected to each other. We build our concepts from our experiences and they are housed in this network. For instance, for a specific individual, love may be mapped to a feeling of sadness, a memory of pain, which may cause anger and keep the domino effect eventually leading back to the initial love concept. Our models are constantly changing along with our experiences, like a constant update. The more and more specific sections of the network fire together, they build a stronger relationship. Emotions are made to be chemically reinforced, the hypothalamus will release chemical cocktails tailor made to each emotion. These neuro-peptides attach to receptors in our bodies and our chemical romance begins. Like the neuronal net, we develop long-term relationships to chemical reactions; we become junkies from our own emotions. Love, whatever your concept of it may be, becomes a simple dependency to our self-made drug.
Love is a spiritual relationship and a strong affection that one has for the other. In most cases it is mutual between two people. The two most common types of love are the love for a lover and a love for a family member. Most humans are exposed to love when they are first born; they grow a strong affection towards their caregivers, typically their mothers. And as they grow older love develops stronger between the one they care about sexually. But love can also be abusive, for when two people love one person sexually and want the person to choose one or the other. Or when a relationship is over and one person moves on but the other person can’t move on and begins stalking the other person. Love can also turn into jealousy and can result in an abusive relationship. Or one can love one’s lifestyle but not the person. Love is many things but true love is one thing and is very hard to find. But once it is found it could never be broken or separated.
Love is a spiritual relationship and a strong affection that one has for the other. In most cases it is mutual between two people. The two most common types of love are the love for a lover and a love for a family member. Most humans are exposed to love when they are first born; they grow a strong affection towards their caregivers, typically their mothers. And as they grow older love develops stronger between the one they care about sexually. But love can also be abusive, for when two people love one person sexually and want the person to choose one or the other. Or when a relationship is over and one person moves on but the other person can’t move on and begins stalking the other person. Love can also turn into jealousy and can result in an abusive relationship. Or one can love one’s lifestyle but not the person. Love is many things but true love is one thing and is very hard to find. But once it is found it could never be broken or separated.
Love.. what is it? In my opinion love is but a mere illusion brought upon by our culture in regards to such emotion. The first humans to walk the face of the earth, in my opinion, were the one's most true to our human "functions". They did not believe in "love" or any of the other "concepts" we've grown up to believe in thanks to society's influence. Love is an illusion created by ourselves long ago to feel this certain level of "intimacy" with that "significant" other. I refer to it as an illusion because when one person appears to be "in love" the other might not be. We create this "pink" world in where happyness can always be found because we our selves need to be assured of such a fate. We create the need for such closeness and intimacy with another person to feel assured ourselves. Monogamy is based on this "love" concept, which most of us automatically search for due to our cultures emphasis on it. When we "pair" ourselves with another person not only do we become dependant on the "feel" we get from said relationship but also proclaim a certain ownership of said person as well. The chemical releases we get when being "In love" turns us into addicts wanting the same effect time after time. This need and dependancy for such an effect has us often abuse one another. One may say they were blinded by love when committing a certain act, such as adultery and so forth. This need we have can turn us into manipulators concerning those we considered to be our "significant" other. What is love? Love is an illusion forced upon us by our culture. The Illusion that we need another to feel loved and assured about ourselves. An illusion that causes us to manipulate and claim ownership of another individual. An illusion created to make us believe all is right with the world... What is love but a mere Illusion?
Throughout the history of mankind, we as world culture have made love out to be mysterious, complex, difficult, and indefinable. It’s the subject of endless poems and literary works. There is an enormous amount of material available out there about love, a lot of it contradictory. Millions of people say, "I love you." What is love? Love can be defined as a strong liking for someone or something. Love is affectionate feelings for different people including husband, wife, children, friends, co-workers, and God. However, the love for each of these is completely different. Various types of love exist. Love is an intense feeling of affection, an emotion and even affects the way a person acts. Love is usually strong between a husband and a wife but the type of love is different than love for a child. Love for a husband can be different than love for one's God. Love can be romantic or it can be described as lust sometimes. Yet, without love what would life be like? Love is nothing more than something of the heart, something that can never be but always is. Love is both true and fake, both beautiful and revolting. Love can be full of happiness depending on whom the sprigs of love twined together. Love can also bring the sadness upon when those who are most close perish away for thought.
All in all love is one of the most powerful emotions. Whether it’s real, or fake, it causes us to think something that wouldn’t normally cross our minds. It can take all reason away, or bring hope to us. But in the end…love can either drown you in the sea, or lift you high in the sky full of sweet wined air.
There are different types of love in the world. Love for family, love for friends, love for the one your with, and love toward the world. Love has been around for years since the beginning. Love has been express in war, or by showing the person with gifts. People made their own definition on love to it give you butterflies, or make you sweat or even daydream. Everyone has experiences love in life since the moment they are born until they die. However, some say the love is an illusion but blinds from the truth and see what not there. Some have try breaking love up into area where people can find themselves in or fit into. Truth to the fit there is no real definition for love but from people who have made or try to make with their knowledge. Love for most people is what make the soul happy and feel they belong.
Love is nothing but an attachment to someone else. If you have ever been in a relationship it’s safe to say that the most difficult thing about breaking up is getting use to not having that person there anymore. Who can you talk to and spend all your time with? Who will be there to comfort you in a different way from family and friends? If you think about it when you first meet someone you’re attracted to its sparks and butterflies all over but as time goes by its not longer lust it’s more of having the comfort of that person being with you at all times. Love is a complex topic to explain it’s something you can’t tell another person about but something you must experience in order to understand it. First you experience attraction, lust, and later it becomes routine. Romance and lust types of love are different from the love you feel for your family and friends because as time goes by lust may go away while the love you feel for your mother will not. Being in love is nothing but a phase it will come and it will go and if doesn’t then it changes but it never stays the same because loving someone is completely different from being attached.
Definitely, love is the strongest of all emotion which is felt by the humans. We all have experienced “love” in some form or the other, be it for our family or friends. Among humans there is a constant desire to love and be loved. Most of us are programmed in such a way that we find ourselves incomplete unless we come across “the perfect one,” and we always dream about a “perfect life” ignoring the harsh realities of life. When we love someone we don’t want them to go through any kind of pain. But there have been many instances in a romantic relationship, where individuals end up hurting the ones they love. This may be due to many factors which the couple might be going through. An individual faces various forms of stress throughout the day in the form of work, or financial situation which may lead to many fights and even abuses between the couple. Yes, love can exist without the abuses; it just depends on how mentally stable the couple is for the difficulties that life sometimes tags along.
Is love a true feeling? Can someone really feel love? One can experience pain and happiness and feel them too, but what does love feel like? Is there really a feeling for love? Or is it just the butterflies dancing in your stomach while approaching the person that gives love a meaning, and fireworks lighting up your life when the loved one appears in the scene? I believe that society, in this case represented by movies, books, etc. is “showing” us what to expect if we were to fall in love. This meaning that if we don’t feel in this particular way, we are not “in love”, according to society’s standards today. One can still be in love and don’t feel in these particular ways; there are different kinds of love, as there are different kinds of persons: some which prefer a more romantic kind of love, some that prefer a more “direct” type. I believe the most important part of love is not the way to show it, but to show the person your love, no matter the style.Jeronimo Gilardoni
The “Love” which is being discussed within the confines of this post is that which a large majority of humanity has come to accept as absolute through the definitions and portrayals of such in the media (movies, Ads, commercials, T.V shows, Radio, etc.) Many of us usually think of love as something which exists in the realm of relationships ( family, friends and spouse) for this reason precisely is why I believe that the so called “love” that we know of is flawed. The abuse of the word love and its meaning is in constant flux due to the fact that large corporations, businesses and governments tweak its meaning as a means to an end (larger profit margins). Given the latter, who is to say that our understanding of love is not affected by the constant bombardment of commercials and marketing ploys designed to play upon our “need” for love? One can even go so far as to propose that what if the love which we “know” or are seeking is, on the contrary, not love at all but an illusion put into place to keep the public ignorant and to guide us further into darkness. Love is universal yes, but it is usually applied “universally” from one person to another, not to all which exists within our reality ( what we can and cannot see).
Love. People are trying to understand and define it for ages. What is it? Where does it come from? What does it mean? Poets, painters, philosophers, priests, even chemists and biologists cannot describe it accurately. And nobody knows, if ever anyone going to do it. Philosophers are saying that the main goal should be feeling happy. And, I guess, to achieve that one has to share love with others. Also, to feel love is way easier than to describe it in words. This special connection, love, born between two or more people, although we there are exceptions such self-love. Love unifies those who accepts it, and agrees to share it. Also, it is impossible to measure its deepness and width, same as impossible to describe mother’s love to her child. Even we cannot accurately describe love, we can feel it, and should not be afraid to share it with others. After all, love is probably one of the best things in life. Rokas Zickevicius
What is love? A question that had my entire being overwhelmed with confusion. I think love has many definitions which makes it hard to define it in only one term. I don’t think love has a universal definition because it can mean one thing for myself and a whole other meaning for the next person. Finding our own definition of love is equivalent to finding your purpose in life. It takes time and experience to discover love’s meaning to you. “Love is giving up a part of yourself and allowing that part to be filled by someone else. It's when your heart feels bigger than your whole body, because it’s filled with trust, confidence, and appreciation of one other special person. Speaking with no words and forgiving unconditionally,” is my definition of love. Through my experiences and a lot of time analyzing my mistakes I came to the conclusion that love is something we all are bron wanting, it is something we all desire. We all have this innate desire to have a part of us filled by someone else and to that person for someone else. But simply desiring it does not make it happen. Love does not come knocking on your door, it takes being vulnerable and trusting someone with your most valuable treasure; your heart. -Adrianna Garcia
Love can be categorized in many ways and on several different levels. As previously mentioned majority of humans are exposed to the ideals and fundamentals of love at a young age. This love nurtures children, and as we often see in society, children who don't receive love and affection from their parents while they were younger tend to be more prone to violence and other activities.However, for those who had the opportunity to have loving parents that loves grows into a bond that is hard to break. Looking through another viewpoint one can also analyze love on a relationship level, which introduces love spiritually,mentally, and physically . Love to me is a thing that is the same between no two people. In certain instances it can be unexplainable, and in other instances it can be something only expressed through actions. I think that a complete understanding of the world love is far beyond any one of our individual thoughts, opinions or experiences. Rather i find it something that we can come to understand collectively by communicating with one another.
Love is one of those things that everybody talks about, but very few ever come to truly know. It generates so many different emotions: Lust, depression, excitement, infatuation, anxiety, intimacy. Each one of those emotions alone can be confused as love, and usually relationships cycle through all of them. I mean what could really be considered perfect love? Some find it in appearance, and others in personality. Often we find ourselves attracted to people, but what causes us to take that extra step and consider it love, and what causes us to stay with someone we "love" when we're unhappy. The reality of it is, it's entirely subjective. What one may consider love, another may not. Patrick Crowley
What is love? A question that once had my entire being captive to confusion. I believe that love does not have a universal meaning, it is different for everyone. Finding your own definition of love is equivalent to finding your purpose in life. The desire for love is an innate desire. For me, I have always felt that a small part of me is missing, and that missing piece will only be filled by the person who I am destined to be with. My definition of love is, " love is giving up a part of yourself and allowing that part to be filled by someone else. It's when your heart feels bigger than your whole body, because its filled with trust, confidence, and appreciation of one other special person. Speaking with no words and forgiving unconditionally." Its about opening up and letting one special person know who you truly are. It is a process that takes a lot of time and effort because making yourself vulnerable is not an easy task. It is a learning process, along the way you learn things about your significant other and yourself.
What is love? A question that once had my entire being captive to confusion. I believe that love does not have a universal meaning, it is different for everyone. Finding your own definition of love is equivalent to finding your purpose in life. The desire for love is an innate desire. For me, I have always felt that a small part of me is missing, and that missing piece will only be filled by the person who I am destined to be with. My definition of love is, " love is giving up a part of yourself and allowing that part to be filled by someone else. It's when your heart feels bigger than your whole body, because its filled with trust, confidence, and appreciation of one other special person. Speaking with no words and forgiving unconditionally." Its about opening up and letting one special person know who you truly are. It is a process that takes a lot of time and effort because making yourself vulnerable is not an easy task. It is a learning process, along the way you learn things about your significant other and yourself. -Adrianna Garcia
Love as many would think is the source for all of our desires and dreams. As definition, love is a part of our lives that brings genuine happiness. This all sounds very nice but the ideals behind love have been materialized and transformed into something superficial. It’s not that we are incapable of loving each other, it is that in today’s society the expectations we have of one another are impossible to attain. The disposable way in which we see people, and the irrelevant manner in which many handle their relationships, leads me to think that love as well as romance are a thing of the past. The internet has permitted many, included myself, to have relationships through instant messages and Facebook statuses. But doesn’t that trivialize the sincerity a true relationship needs? Is a “like” on a photo equivalent to a piropo (Spanish for street flattery)? Apart from that, today’s values boil down to attaining wealth or protecting it from an economic meltdown. With this crisis at hand who has time to build on a relationship, let alone have one? This optimistic attitude is sure applicable to many aspects of today’s society, so in my opinion it is best to accept the circumstances and strive to be the exception to the rule.
What is love? This is definitely one of the most difficult questions for the mankind. Mainly because there is not an actual definition for it however, I think you just feel it. Love for me is an emotion, a mixture of beautiful feelings towards a person. Love allows you into another person's world and opens you up to perceiving his or her goodness. At the same time, it means investing part of you in the other unconditionally. Love is when two individuals bond magically and in a way it connects them in a unified link of trust, intimacy and respect. Like I mentioned love is a beautiful feeling that gives you happiness in so many ways and sometimes it could hurt a lot and be possessive. Love is found when two people are really looking for it and I mean looking at the person and not the other material things in life.
Love and respect, we all want it but generally don’t give it. As humans all we want is to feel a part of something. Though many may say otherwise, there lies a constant search for acceptance. Can this be where “love and respect” deem from? Through both there is the acquisition of recognition that helps one feel “not alone”. Personally I’m not a social person even when it comes to family members. But there are times when I want to be alone and yet I don’t want to be alone. This has nothing to do with “love”. Love may be characterized as “a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection (dictionary.com)” but all it is, is an attachment. Why else would someone stay with another who belittles them constantly? Our general sense of love and respect is established from wherever we come from. May it be exactly of that or it’s opposite. In the end it comes down to our willingness to accept it as it is, reject it or modify it. So is it possible to love and respect one another? Yes, it all depends on the individual’s definition of love and respect.
Love can be used to show how one feel by another. Or love can be a term just to tell someone how they feel about each other. Although many have different ways of showing and telling their affection of love, Love is really clueless topic.
Is love a kind of disease or an affectionate bond based on the universal tendency for humans to seek closeness in order to experience security? I would have to say that I would have to see love as a bond, tendency/act of a way that “us” humans use to seek closeness or feel closeness for security.
Is it about limbic resonance? No.
Or is it some kind of propinquity? No.
Love is indescribable really, love is not an actual person that he/she can speak for itself. In other words, love is an emotion/feeling that we can never describe of us acting crazy, jealous, nice, sweet, etc.
In conclusion, I reason that love is an affectionate way to speak in acts instead of words, to show how two people feel about each other which words can’t describe.
Ah yes the troubling subject that almost anyone can relate and talk about: Love. If we are to go deep into this topic, Love does not have just one specific definition, it spreads out into different branches and levels. This can be based on a person’s personal beliefs, opinions and experience Love that gives them their point of view on it. Generally, there are different types of Love. For instance, there is the term of universal love that was often expressed through the 1960’s with the hippies. This type of Love means to express Love to anything and everything throughout the world and that only Love can be the answer to everything. Love is expressed in different ways and styles, with the family, with dear friends, or just that special someone that makes life just a bit better. Be it as an attachment, a need or just one method of survival, it’s the type of emotion that makes us happy, even if it’s just for a split second.
Love is the most wonderful thing that has ever happened on earth. Love is the most powerful thing that has ever existed. Everything we do is because of love: love for ourselves, for our friends, parents, spouse, child, career and so on. All the greatest and in the same time the worst things were done because of it. We wake up in the morning, because we love life. We work hard, because we love money. We get married, because we love to have a family. Love can be beautiful and passionate, and in the same time excruciating. I believe in love and in its power. Nothing can move you and make you do crazy things like love. One minute it can make you sing and marvel and the other hate and cry. It can be beautiful, and in the same time painful. Nevertheless, everybody is looking for love, because it is the meaning of our life, worth to live for. Eugeniu Timofti
Love is an emotion we all want to conquer and experience at least once in our lives. Love is required by many but not experienced by all. Most of us are attracted to notion of love because it provides acceptance, security, and interpersonal relations. These factors help us become better individuals and more content individuals. We all presume our displays of love are spontaneous, impromptu, and original, yet there are not. People’s schema of what love is tainted by top marketing corporations using love as profit machine. Corporations such as, Hershey, Hallmark, Tiffanys, have all successful marketed their standards of what love is. Moreover the media plays a pertinent role in how we convey love in relationship, such as movies and TV series. Is love a concept being used to strategically manipulating consumers to promote products, yes it is. As a result, in order for people to truly experience love people must accept that loves limitless and indefinable.
What is love? To me love is nothing more than a feeling, a word, an expression, and etc. To me love is not tangible. I can't feel it, I can't see it, I can't hear it, I can't taste it, and I definitely can't smell it. How can one love someone if they can't feel, see, hear, taste, or smell love? So, what the hell is love? We crave it even though it brings us pain and suffering. Everywhere you find love, you find struggle and hardship. So why do we go after it? I believe love is like a drug for our brain. Once you have it, you feel good but over time the effect of love goes away and that’s when you become unhappy. You bring up fights with the person you love and you eventually leave that person just to go find some more of love and repeat the cycle. There are different types of love, the one you get from your family members, friends, and then your significant other. Family love and friendship love definition remains the same while it changes for significant other. As we evolve so does our language. I feel like it’s not right to say “I love you” anymore because clearly it’s not what it used to be 40 years ago. For guys it’s more like how many girls can sleep with and for girls is like how many guys I can play with (Of course I am generalizing)? People throw this word around left and right. -Rezba Karim
I am a strait, 22 year old male. I crave the attention of females from time to time. Ive been in love once. And in this situation i can agree that i cant forget this feeling and when it was gone i still craved it. and it beeing duplicated, sold, and promised as a product is very possible. this social brain washing would be out of the question without hormones driving our hopes and goals and the need to not be alone.
I do strongly believe that we can love and respect one another at the same time, but a lot of things are needed to get to that point. To achieve a respect-love relationship we first need to get rid of all those ideas that society has implanted in our minds during so many years. The fact that we have somebody with whom we feel stability and safeness, share beliefs and desires, feel sexual attraction and fulfill our lives with happiness and joy, doesn’t mean either that the person belongs to you nor that she or he has to share feelings, sexual activity and life in general, only with you. Men as women has demonstrated that monogamy is something invented by society, that not every human being must and desire to practice. Even though you find your “one”, and you feel that you can spend your whole life with that person, it doesn’t have to be like that, and you cannot make its life yours. For a love to succeed, it´s necessary to have a respect for personal space and development, as well as for beliefs and desires. Who said that love is a prison and everything has to be shared? Including the entire life? For a love to be good it doesn´t have to last a long period of time. Nothing lasts forever. The idea of eternal love is a complete illusion. The expectations of finding the ideal person can bring us big deceptions, and we can only avoid those deceptions if we accept that nobody is perfect including ourselves. I agree with Hatfield, that the combination of compassionate and passionate love is rare, but it can be eventually achieved. If most people don’t get up to there, it´s because the manipulative society we live in, leads them to misconceptions about love. Ana Chaves
I do strongly believe that we can love and respect one another at the same time, but a lot of things are needed to get to that point. To achieve a respect-love relationship we first need to get rid of all those ideas that society has implanted in our minds during so many years. The fact that we have somebody with whom we feel stability and safeness, share beliefs and desires, feel sexual attraction and fulfill our lives with happiness and joy, doesn’t mean either that the person belongs to you nor that she or he has to share every feeling, sexual activity and moment in life, only with you in orther to love you. Men as women has demonstrated that monogamy is something created by society, that not every human being must and desire to practice. Even though you find your “one”, and you feel that you can spend your whole life with that person, it doesn’t have to be like that, and you cannot make its life yours. For a love to succeed, it´s necessary to have a respect for personal space and development, as well as for beliefs and desires. Who said that love is a prison and everything has to be shared? Including the entire life? For a love to be good it doesn´t have to last a long period of time. Nothing lasts forever. The idea of eternal love is a complete illusion. The expectations of finding the ideal person can bring us big deceptions, and we can only avoid those deceptions if we accept that nobody is perfect including ourselves. I agree with Hatfield, that the combination of compassionate and passionate love is rare, but it can be eventually achieved. If most people don’t get up to there, it´s because the manipulative society we live in, leads them to misconceptions about love.
Love is everywhere and something nearly everyone seems to experience. Love can also be inexplicable as we tend to share our emotions differently. I tend to think love as emotions running through our blood, brains, and other parts of our bodies as it takes over us with emotional feelings. For example DEVI, which it stands for Dominance, Emotions, Variety, and immersion. I tend to think love as combining all of these and using it to keep up with an extraordinary relationship. However, these relationships tend to last a short period of time if both partners do not devote and commit themselves to this love affection they have between each other. Many problems can be taken care off if the effort is there. Love is still a very common word and it is use without meanings when it should be meant when said.
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The brain is composed of billions and billions of neurons that form its neural net. We tend to map emotions, thoughts and experiences through the laws of associative memory, wherein all memories and emotions are connected to each other. We build our concepts from our experiences and they are housed in this network. For instance, for a specific individual, love may be mapped to a feeling of sadness, a memory of pain, which may cause anger and keep the domino effect eventually leading back to the initial love concept. Our models are constantly changing along with our experiences, like a constant update. The more and more specific sections of the network fire together, they build a stronger relationship. Emotions are made to be chemically reinforced, the hypothalamus will release chemical cocktails tailor made to each emotion. These neuro-peptides attach to receptors in our bodies and our chemical romance begins. Like the neuronal net, we develop long-term relationships to chemical reactions; we become junkies from our own emotions. Love, whatever your concept of it may be, becomes a simple dependency to our self-made drug.
What more is there to say? Iron Lung said it best.I'm affraid I haven't anything to add.Bravo iLung. Alan Lopez
Love is a spiritual relationship and a strong affection that one has for the other. In most cases it is mutual between two people. The two most common types of love are the love for a lover and a love for a family member. Most humans are exposed to love when they are first born; they grow a strong affection towards their caregivers, typically their mothers. And as they grow older love develops stronger between the one they care about sexually. But love can also be abusive, for when two people love one person sexually and want the person to choose one or the other. Or when a relationship is over and one person moves on but the other person can’t move on and begins stalking the other person. Love can also turn into jealousy and can result in an abusive relationship. Or one can love one’s lifestyle but not the person. Love is many things but true love is one thing and is very hard to find. But once it is found it could never be broken or separated.
Love is a spiritual relationship and a strong affection that one has for the other. In most cases it is mutual between two people. The two most common types of love are the love for a lover and a love for a family member. Most humans are exposed to love when they are first born; they grow a strong affection towards their caregivers, typically their mothers. And as they grow older love develops stronger between the one they care about sexually. But love can also be abusive, for when two people love one person sexually and want the person to choose one or the other. Or when a relationship is over and one person moves on but the other person can’t move on and begins stalking the other person. Love can also turn into jealousy and can result in an abusive relationship. Or one can love one’s lifestyle but not the person. Love is many things but true love is one thing and is very hard to find. But once it is found it could never be broken or separated.
Donald Dominique Jr.
Love.. what is it? In my opinion love is but a mere illusion brought upon by our culture in regards to such emotion. The first humans to walk the face of the earth, in my opinion, were the one's most true to our human "functions". They did not believe in "love" or any of the other "concepts" we've grown up to believe in thanks to society's influence. Love is an illusion created by ourselves long ago to feel this certain level of "intimacy" with that "significant" other. I refer to it as an illusion because when one person appears to be "in love" the other might not be. We create this "pink" world in where happyness can always be found because we our selves need to be assured of such a fate. We create the need for such closeness and intimacy with another person to feel assured ourselves. Monogamy is based on this "love" concept, which most of us automatically search for due to our cultures emphasis on it. When we "pair" ourselves with another person not only do we become dependant on the "feel" we get from said relationship but also proclaim a certain ownership of said person as well. The chemical releases we get when being "In love" turns us into addicts wanting the same effect time after time. This need and dependancy for such an effect has us often abuse one another. One may say they were blinded by love when committing a certain act, such as adultery and so forth. This need we have can turn us into manipulators concerning those we considered to be our "significant" other. What is love? Love is an illusion forced upon us by our culture. The Illusion that we need another to feel loved and assured about ourselves. An illusion that causes us to manipulate and claim ownership of another individual. An illusion created to make us believe all is right with the world... What is love but a mere Illusion?
Throughout the history of mankind, we as world culture have made love out to be mysterious, complex, difficult, and indefinable. It’s the subject of endless poems and literary works. There is an enormous amount of material available out there about love, a lot of it contradictory.
Millions of people say, "I love you." What is love? Love can be defined as a strong liking for someone or something. Love is affectionate feelings for different people including husband, wife, children, friends, co-workers, and God. However, the love for each of these is completely different. Various types of love exist. Love is an intense feeling of affection, an emotion and even affects the way a person acts. Love is usually strong between a husband and a wife but the type of love is different than love for a child. Love for a husband can be different than love for one's God. Love can be romantic or it can be described as lust sometimes. Yet, without love what would life be like? Love is nothing more than something of the heart, something that can never be but always is. Love is both true and fake, both beautiful and revolting. Love can be full of happiness depending on whom the sprigs of love twined together. Love can also bring the sadness upon when those who are most close perish away for thought.
All in all love is one of the most powerful emotions. Whether it’s real, or fake, it causes us to think something that wouldn’t normally cross our minds. It can take all reason away, or bring hope to us. But in the end…love can either drown you in the sea, or lift you high in the sky full of sweet wined air.
Marie Michelle Leveille
There are different types of love in the world. Love for family, love for friends, love for the one your with, and love toward the world. Love has been around for years since the beginning. Love has been express in war, or by showing the person with gifts. People made their own definition on love to it give you butterflies, or make you sweat or even daydream. Everyone has experiences love in life since the moment they are born until they die. However, some say the love is an illusion but blinds from the truth and see what not there. Some have try breaking love up into area where people can find themselves in or fit into. Truth to the fit there is no real definition for love but from people who have made or try to make with their knowledge. Love for most people is what make the soul happy and feel they belong.
Love is nothing but an attachment to someone else. If you have ever been in a relationship it’s safe to say that the most difficult thing about breaking up is getting use to not having that person there anymore. Who can you talk to and spend all your time with? Who will be there to comfort you in a different way from family and friends? If you think about it when you first meet someone you’re attracted to its sparks and butterflies all over but as time goes by its not longer lust it’s more of having the comfort of that person being with you at all times. Love is a complex topic to explain it’s something you can’t tell another person about but something you must experience in order to understand it. First you experience attraction, lust, and later it becomes routine. Romance and lust types of love are different from the love you feel for your family and friends because as time goes by lust may go away while the love you feel for your mother will not. Being in love is nothing but a phase it will come and it will go and if doesn’t then it changes but it never stays the same because loving someone is completely different from being attached.
-Etil Diaz
Definitely, love is the strongest of all emotion which is felt by the humans. We all have experienced “love” in some form or the other, be it for our family or friends. Among humans there is a constant desire to love and be loved. Most of us are programmed in such a way that we find ourselves incomplete unless we come across “the perfect one,” and we always dream about a “perfect life” ignoring the harsh realities of life. When we love someone we don’t want them to go through any kind of pain. But there have been many instances in a romantic relationship, where individuals end up hurting the ones they love. This may be due to many factors which the couple might be going through. An individual faces various forms of stress throughout the day in the form of work, or financial situation which may lead to many fights and even abuses between the couple. Yes, love can exist without the abuses; it just depends on how mentally stable the couple is for the difficulties that life sometimes tags along.
Is love a true feeling? Can someone really feel love? One can experience pain and happiness and feel them too, but what does love feel like? Is there really a feeling for love? Or is it just the butterflies dancing in your stomach while approaching the person that gives love a meaning, and fireworks lighting up your life when the loved one appears in the scene? I believe that society, in this case represented by movies, books, etc. is “showing” us what to expect if we were to fall in love. This meaning that if we don’t feel in this particular way, we are not “in love”, according to society’s standards today. One can still be in love and don’t feel in these particular ways; there are different kinds of love, as there are different kinds of persons: some which prefer a more romantic kind of love, some that prefer a more “direct” type. I believe the most important part of love is not the way to show it, but to show the person your love, no matter the style.Jeronimo Gilardoni
The “Love” which is being discussed within the confines of this post is that which a large majority of humanity has come to accept as absolute through the definitions and portrayals of such in the media (movies, Ads, commercials, T.V shows, Radio, etc.) Many of us usually think of love as something which exists in the realm of relationships ( family, friends and spouse) for this reason precisely is why I believe that the so called “love” that we know of is flawed. The abuse of the word love and its meaning is in constant flux due to the fact that large corporations, businesses and governments tweak its meaning as a means to an end (larger profit margins). Given the latter, who is to say that our understanding of love is not affected by the constant bombardment of commercials and marketing ploys designed to play upon our “need” for love? One can even go so far as to propose that what if the love which we “know” or are seeking is, on the contrary, not love at all but an illusion put into place to keep the public ignorant and to guide us further into darkness. Love is universal yes, but it is usually applied “universally” from one person to another, not to all which exists within our reality ( what we can and cannot see).
Christopher Jitta
Love. People are trying to understand and define it for ages. What is it? Where does it come from? What does it mean? Poets, painters, philosophers, priests, even chemists and biologists cannot describe it accurately. And nobody knows, if ever anyone going to do it.
Philosophers are saying that the main goal should be feeling happy. And, I guess, to achieve that one has to share love with others. Also, to feel love is way easier than to describe it in words.
This special connection, love, born between two or more people, although we there are exceptions such self-love. Love unifies those who accepts it, and agrees to share it. Also, it is impossible to measure its deepness and width, same as impossible to describe mother’s love to her child.
Even we cannot accurately describe love, we can feel it, and should not be afraid to share it with others. After all, love is probably one of the best things in life.
Rokas Zickevicius
What is love? A question that had my entire being overwhelmed with confusion. I think love has many definitions which makes it hard to define it in only one term. I don’t think love has a universal definition because it can mean one thing for myself and a whole other meaning for the next person. Finding our own definition of love is equivalent to finding your purpose in life. It takes time and experience to discover love’s meaning to you. “Love is giving up a part of yourself and allowing that part to be filled by someone else. It's when your heart feels bigger than your whole body, because it’s filled with trust, confidence, and appreciation of one other special person. Speaking with no words and forgiving unconditionally,” is my definition of love. Through my experiences and a lot of time analyzing my mistakes I came to the conclusion that love is something we all are bron wanting, it is something we all desire. We all have this innate desire to have a part of us filled by someone else and to that person for someone else. But simply desiring it does not make it happen. Love does not come knocking on your door, it takes being vulnerable and trusting someone with your most valuable treasure; your heart.
-Adrianna Garcia
Love can be categorized in many ways and on several different levels. As previously mentioned majority of humans are exposed to the ideals and fundamentals of love at a young age. This love nurtures children, and as we often see in society, children who don't receive love and affection from their parents while they were younger tend to be more prone to violence and other activities.However, for those who had the opportunity to have loving parents that loves grows into a bond that is hard to break. Looking through another viewpoint one can also analyze love on a relationship level, which introduces love spiritually,mentally, and physically . Love to me is a thing that is the same between no two people. In certain instances it can be unexplainable, and in other instances it can be something only expressed through actions. I think that a complete understanding of the world love is far beyond any one of our individual thoughts, opinions or experiences. Rather i find it something that we can come to understand collectively by communicating with one another.
Love is one of those things that everybody talks about, but very few ever come to truly know. It generates so many different emotions: Lust, depression, excitement, infatuation, anxiety, intimacy. Each one of those emotions alone can be confused as love, and usually relationships cycle through all of them. I mean what could really be considered perfect love? Some find it in appearance, and others in personality. Often we find ourselves attracted to people, but what causes us to take that extra step and consider it love, and what causes us to stay with someone we "love" when we're unhappy. The reality of it is, it's entirely subjective. What one may consider love, another may not.
Patrick Crowley
What is love? A question that once had my entire being captive to confusion. I believe that love does not have a universal meaning, it is different for everyone. Finding your own definition of love is equivalent to finding your purpose in life. The desire for love is an innate desire. For me, I have always felt that a small part of me is missing, and that missing piece will only be filled by the person who I am destined to be with. My definition of love is, " love is giving up a part of yourself and allowing that part to be filled by someone else. It's when your heart feels bigger than your whole body, because its filled with trust, confidence, and appreciation of one other special person. Speaking with no words and forgiving unconditionally." Its about opening up and letting one special person know who you truly are. It is a process that takes a lot of time and effort because making yourself vulnerable is not an easy task. It is a learning process, along the way you learn things about your significant other and yourself.
What is love? A question that once had my entire being captive to confusion. I believe that love does not have a universal meaning, it is different for everyone. Finding your own definition of love is equivalent to finding your purpose in life. The desire for love is an innate desire. For me, I have always felt that a small part of me is missing, and that missing piece will only be filled by the person who I am destined to be with. My definition of love is, " love is giving up a part of yourself and allowing that part to be filled by someone else. It's when your heart feels bigger than your whole body, because its filled with trust, confidence, and appreciation of one other special person. Speaking with no words and forgiving unconditionally." Its about opening up and letting one special person know who you truly are. It is a process that takes a lot of time and effort because making yourself vulnerable is not an easy task. It is a learning process, along the way you learn things about your significant other and yourself.
-Adrianna Garcia
Love as many would think is the source for all of our desires and dreams. As definition, love is a part of our lives that brings genuine happiness. This all sounds very nice but the ideals behind love have been materialized and transformed into something superficial. It’s not that we are incapable of loving each other, it is that in today’s society the expectations we have of one another are impossible to attain. The disposable way in which we see people, and the irrelevant manner in which many handle their relationships, leads me to think that love as well as romance are a thing of the past.
The internet has permitted many, included myself, to have relationships through instant messages and Facebook statuses. But doesn’t that trivialize the sincerity a true relationship needs? Is a “like” on a photo equivalent to a piropo (Spanish for street flattery)?
Apart from that, today’s values boil down to attaining wealth or protecting it from an economic meltdown. With this crisis at hand who has time to build on a relationship, let alone have one? This optimistic attitude is sure applicable to many aspects of today’s society, so in my opinion it is best to accept the circumstances and strive to be the exception to the rule.
What is love? This is definitely one of the most difficult questions for the mankind. Mainly because there is not an actual definition for it however, I think you just feel it. Love for me is an emotion, a mixture of beautiful feelings towards a person. Love allows you into another person's world and opens you up to perceiving his or her goodness. At the same time, it means investing part of you in the other unconditionally. Love is when two individuals bond magically and in a way it connects them in a unified link of trust, intimacy and respect. Like I mentioned love is a beautiful feeling that gives you happiness in so many ways and sometimes it could hurt a lot and be possessive. Love is found when two people are really looking for it and I mean looking at the person and not the other material things in life.
`Joixen Lobo
Love and respect, we all want it but generally don’t give it. As humans all we want is to feel a part of something. Though many may say otherwise, there lies a constant search for acceptance. Can this be where “love and respect” deem from? Through both there is the acquisition of recognition that helps one feel “not alone”. Personally I’m not a social person even when it comes to family members. But there are times when I want to be alone and yet I don’t want to be alone. This has nothing to do with “love”. Love may be characterized as “a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection (dictionary.com)” but all it is, is an attachment. Why else would someone stay with another who belittles them constantly? Our general sense of love and respect is established from wherever we come from. May it be exactly of that or it’s opposite. In the end it comes down to our willingness to accept it as it is, reject it or modify it. So is it possible to love and respect one another? Yes, it all depends on the individual’s definition of love and respect.
- Joanne Apollon
Love can be used to show how one feel by another. Or love can be a term just to tell someone how they feel about each other. Although many have different ways of showing and telling their affection of love, Love is really clueless topic.
Is love a kind of disease or an affectionate bond based on the universal tendency for humans to seek closeness in order to experience security? I would have to say that I would have to see love as a bond, tendency/act of a way that “us” humans use to seek closeness or feel closeness for security.
Is it about limbic resonance? No.
Or is it some kind of propinquity? No.
Love is indescribable really, love is not an actual person that he/she can speak for itself. In other words, love is an emotion/feeling that we can never describe of us acting crazy, jealous, nice, sweet, etc.
In conclusion, I reason that love is an affectionate way to speak in acts instead of words, to show how two people feel about each other which words can’t describe.
Fenza Fleurgin
Ah yes the troubling subject that almost anyone can relate and talk about: Love. If we are to go deep into this topic, Love does not have just one specific definition, it spreads out into different branches and levels. This can be based on a person’s personal beliefs, opinions and experience Love that gives them their point of view on it. Generally, there are different types of Love. For instance, there is the term of universal love that was often expressed through the 1960’s with the hippies. This type of Love means to express Love to anything and everything throughout the world and that only Love can be the answer to everything. Love is expressed in different ways and styles, with the family, with dear friends, or just that special someone that makes life just a bit better. Be it as an attachment, a need or just one method of survival, it’s the type of emotion that makes us happy, even if it’s just for a split second.
Daysis Moraga
Love is the most wonderful thing that has ever happened on earth. Love is the most powerful thing that has ever existed. Everything we do is because of love: love for ourselves, for our friends, parents, spouse, child, career and so on. All the greatest and in the same time the worst things were done because of it. We wake up in the morning, because we love life. We work hard, because we love money. We get married, because we love to have a family.
Love can be beautiful and passionate, and in the same time excruciating. I believe in love and in its power. Nothing can move you and make you do crazy things like love. One minute it can make you sing and marvel and the other hate and cry. It can be beautiful, and in the same time painful. Nevertheless, everybody is looking for love, because it is the meaning of our life, worth to live for.
Eugeniu Timofti
Love is an emotion we all want to conquer and experience at least once in our lives. Love is required by many but not experienced by all. Most of us are attracted to notion of love because it provides acceptance, security, and interpersonal relations. These factors help us become better individuals and more content individuals. We all presume our displays of love are spontaneous, impromptu, and original, yet there are not. People’s schema of what love is tainted by top marketing corporations using love as profit machine. Corporations such as, Hershey, Hallmark, Tiffanys, have all successful marketed their standards of what love is. Moreover the media plays a pertinent role in how we convey love in relationship, such as movies and TV series. Is love a concept being used to strategically manipulating consumers to promote products, yes it is. As a result, in order for people to truly experience love people must accept that loves limitless and indefinable.
Reyna Barnhart
What is love?
To me love is nothing more than a feeling, a word, an expression, and etc.
To me love is not tangible. I can't feel it, I can't see it, I can't hear it, I can't taste it, and I definitely can't smell it. How can one love someone if they can't feel, see, hear, taste, or smell love? So, what the hell is love? We crave it even though it brings us pain and suffering. Everywhere you find love, you find struggle and hardship. So why do we go after it? I believe love is like a drug for our brain. Once you have it, you feel good but over time the effect of love goes away and that’s when you become unhappy. You bring up fights with the person you love and you eventually leave that person just to go find some more of love and repeat the cycle. There are different types of love, the one you get from your family members, friends, and then your significant other. Family love and friendship love definition remains the same while it changes for significant other. As we evolve so does our language. I feel like it’s not right to say “I love you” anymore because clearly it’s not what it used to be 40 years ago. For guys it’s more like how many girls can sleep with and for girls is like how many guys I can play with (Of course I am generalizing)? People throw this word around left and right.
-Rezba Karim
I am a strait, 22 year old male. I crave the attention of females from time to time. Ive been in love once. And in this situation i can agree that i cant forget this feeling and when it was gone i still craved it. and it beeing duplicated, sold, and promised as a product is very possible. this social brain washing would be out of the question without hormones driving our hopes and goals and the need to not be alone.
I do strongly believe that we can love and respect one another at the same time, but a lot of things are needed to get to that point. To achieve a respect-love relationship we first need to get rid of all those ideas that society has implanted in our minds during so many years. The fact that we have somebody with whom we feel stability and safeness, share beliefs and desires, feel sexual attraction and fulfill our lives with happiness and joy, doesn’t mean either that the person belongs to you nor that she or he has to share feelings, sexual activity and life in general, only with you. Men as women has demonstrated that monogamy is something invented by society, that not every human being must and desire to practice. Even though you find your “one”, and you feel that you can spend your whole life with that person, it doesn’t have to be like that, and you cannot make its life yours. For a love to succeed, it´s necessary to have a respect for personal space and development, as well as for beliefs and desires. Who said that love is a prison and everything has to be shared? Including the entire life? For a love to be good it doesn´t have to last a long period of time. Nothing lasts forever. The idea of eternal love is a complete illusion. The expectations of finding the ideal person can bring us big deceptions, and we can only avoid those deceptions if we accept that nobody is perfect including ourselves. I agree with Hatfield, that the combination of compassionate and passionate love is rare, but it can be eventually achieved. If most people don’t get up to there, it´s because the manipulative society we live in, leads them to misconceptions about love.
Ana Chaves
I do strongly believe that we can love and respect one another at the same time, but a lot of things are needed to get to that point. To achieve a respect-love relationship we first need to get rid of all those ideas that society has implanted in our minds during so many years. The fact that we have somebody with whom we feel stability and safeness, share beliefs and desires, feel sexual attraction and fulfill our lives with happiness and joy, doesn’t mean either that the person belongs to you nor that she or he has to share every feeling, sexual activity and moment in life, only with you in orther to love you. Men as women has demonstrated that monogamy is something created by society, that not every human being must and desire to practice. Even though you find your “one”, and you feel that you can spend your whole life with that person, it doesn’t have to be like that, and you cannot make its life yours. For a love to succeed, it´s necessary to have a respect for personal space and development, as well as for beliefs and desires. Who said that love is a prison and everything has to be shared? Including the entire life? For a love to be good it doesn´t have to last a long period of time. Nothing lasts forever. The idea of eternal love is a complete illusion. The expectations of finding the ideal person can bring us big deceptions, and we can only avoid those deceptions if we accept that nobody is perfect including ourselves. I agree with Hatfield, that the combination of compassionate and passionate love is rare, but it can be eventually achieved. If most people don’t get up to there, it´s because the manipulative society we live in, leads them to misconceptions about love.
Love is everywhere and something nearly everyone seems to experience. Love can also be inexplicable as we tend to share our emotions differently. I tend to think love as emotions running through our blood, brains, and other parts of our bodies as it takes over us with emotional feelings. For example DEVI, which it stands for Dominance, Emotions, Variety, and immersion. I tend to think love as combining all of these and using it to keep up with an extraordinary relationship. However, these relationships tend to last a short period of time if both partners do not devote and commit themselves to this love affection they have between each other. Many problems can be taken care off if the effort is there. Love is still a very common word and it is use without meanings when it should be meant when said.
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