Love...

[Miss Doronjo]

How, in your own words, describe the word "love"? Do you like it, or do you simply hate it? Do you think its something that everyone one is meant for, or maybe, do you think its a waste of time?

How would you describe love?

To put it simply, to me, I believe that love is pretty good to have. We get happiness, joy, and of course, love.

 

[Captain Fabio]

I have never been in love. I have really liked someone, but I have never felt like I have been in love. I think a lot of peoples 'love' is just lust.

It annoys me when I see 15 year old couples saying that they are so in love. How do they know what love is? And I can 99% guarantee that they are just feeling lust.​

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[Zebeedoo]

I hate love. C:

Seriously. I've never been in love, or with anyone in my entire life. It upsets me when I think about it.. because people say I'm pretty and all, aye? Well.. I think the reason I have a hard time believing such comments on my appearance, and because I have such low self-esteem, is because I haven't been with someone to MAKE me feel I am pretty.. My crushes? Never returned. Which makes me feel x10 worse about myself. Makes me feel I won't find anyone.. even though people say I will someday, I also have a hard time believing that too because my crushes are never returned.

I am sick of seeing 12 year olds going through girl/boyfriends like it's their last day on earth. They don't even know the darned meaning of the word love. While me? I'm sitting here wishing and hoping someone, just someone I like would like me back for once. All the time, all the freakin' time I am led on by guys I waste my time liking. So now, I just keep crushes to myself. It's ruined friendships with numerous friends I had here. So yeah, thanks a lot love.

When I see couples in the street.. I always say in my mind "I hope that can be me someday.. being held in someone's arms.. to be loved."

I get so sad over love and the stupid negative emotions it gives off.

So yes. I hate love. Until I find someone to love as my own.. and to feel the positives emotions of it, I will always hate it.

/rant over

 

[Sydian]

Love is something I don't want to delve into again for a long time. Also, I do believe there is a line between loving someone and being in love with someone. I have loved many, but only one person ever seemed to make it over that other line. How did that end for me? Let's just not talk about it.

And I too am annoyed with little tweenies saying they're in love. It took me 18 years to know what it's like to be in love, and...they're too happy to be in love. But to be honest, we're not here to judge whether a couples' love is genuine or not. But I will say that some of them are very obvious, like the people that rip through bfs/gfs the way a fat man uses napkins while eating hot wings. And they have all that PDA and they only talk about each other and it's just disgusting and makes me want to throw up everywhere. It's funny when they break up after a month or so, or earlier. And couples that date for a day and already say they love each other. That irks me too, unless you started to love that person before you were officially dating. That's happened to me before.

For the moment, I think love is just an annoyance and a hindrance that I'd rather not bother with for a long time. It seems to work for other people (and props to you people in strong-going online relationships) but it's just not in my favor at this time, so it just makes me a wet towel about the whole topic.

Like I said once, "Love is a word with a lot of meaning and no true definition."

 

[Azonic]

Love is just a strong emotional attachment / affection to someone. Very relative, no definite boundary between like and love. It is a positive thing and can make you feel like you're on top of the world, really emotionally happy. Love is blind though. Also, it annoys me when older people dismiss true love as a thing that only people of age can experience. :/

I have never been in love. I have really liked someone, but I have never felt like I have been in love. I think a lot of peoples 'love' is just lust.

It annoys me when I see 15 year old couples saying that they are so in love. How do they know what love is? And I can 99% guarantee that they are just feeling lust.​

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Exhibit A. How do YOU know what love is if you have never been in love? And with that, who are you to assume the feelings of another group's ability to love? (hope I don't sound rude here but... >_<)

 

[angel]

Love is love. It comes and goes but once in awhile you pull in someone that makes you weak. The person you can't stop thinking about and when you heard their voice or how they say your name you just melt. Love is full of heart-aches, I'm sure plenty of people can testify to that, myself included. However I believe love is worth the bad times because in between those bad times you get good times.

I also agree with the notion that its annoying to hear people teens and younger telling each other they love each other. I mean, yes maybe they do but you can't start loving your boyfriend/girlfriend a week after you start dating. It takes me a long time to say it because I want to make sure its actually what I'm feeling. I don't like habing to take it back, because 'Oh, you said it so I thought I had to.' No.

When people say that young people can't be in love, that they don't know what love is, this makes me angry. You can't see what's in other people's heads and hearts. However I do believe that two eight year-olds shouldn't be telling each other 'I love you'. How do they know what love means? At that age I love you should be for their parents and silblings.

Though saying a couple of sixteen year-olds can't be in true love is wrong. My oldest sister and her husband met when she was sixteen. They both knew they were in love. Now they are married and have four sons. If you watch them while they are together you can see they truly love each other. So all this about having to be old to have true love is crap. However young children don't understand what it actually means.

 

[Sydian]

Love is just a strong emotional attachment / affection to someone. Very relative, no definite boundary between like and love. It is a positive thing and can make you feel like you're on top of the world, really emotionally happy. Love is blind though. Also, it annoys me when older people dismiss true love as a thing that only people of age can experience. :/

I think it's more of...well, honestly, how many couples do you know that can honestly say "we fell in love when we were 13." Very few, but it's still possible. I hope my post didn't confuse you with that, haha.

Exhibit A. How do YOU know what love is if you have never been in love? And with that, who are you to assume the feelings of another group's ability to love? (hope I don't sound rude here but... >_<)

I do agree a bit here tbh. In the case of his example about 15 year olds and all though, I think he meant the sugar-coating teenagers put on their relationships these days, and that it seems more like a puppy love type of thing, because they're just so infatuated with their partners. There's an obvious difference between love and infatuation, I think. ...What am I doing back at this thread /runs off

Love is love. It comes and goes but once in awhile you pull in someone that makes you weak. The person you can't stop thinking about and when you heard their voice or how they say your name you just melt. Love is full of heart-aches, I'm sure plenty of people can testify to that, myself included. However I believe love is worth the bad times because in between those bad times you get good times.

Quoted for indefinite and undeniable truth.

 

[PlatinumDude]

To me, love is having a strong relationship with someone. I'm not in love with anyone in particular, so I don't really care about it. People who really like each other deserve to be in love.

 

[Legobricks]

Love is a mechanism by which nature has Homo sapiens reproduce. That's the apparent basic principle; everyone builds upon it with whatever aside concepts they will.

 

[インフェルノの津波]

I think love is just a neuron in your brain that translates into love, a specific form of pleasure, since love really is pleasure correct?

 

[KitKat13]

Simple, love is everywhere, love isn't just all about a relationship with someone you like, Love can be with family, friends, dogs, and so much more! One thing that I know about love is that love is caring, happiness, and patient, that is why it's called the most powerful thing in the world. :)

 

[Kurtroll]

Love is more than what people make it out to be.

Sure, any idiot can say "it's caring about them more than you", but it's the actual experience that defines it.

No phrase, no word can describe it, it's just that feeling you get from "that person"

 

[Rogue planet]

Love is whatever you want it to be.

My version? Someone I consistently enjoy spending time with, someone I can confide in and relate to, somebody I think understands me and that I can understand them, somebody who gives me tingles (very important), someone who I value far more than other people, someone that I am actually capable of building a good relationship with, and someone I want to make happy all the time and who'll make me happier too.

It really doesn't have to be more complicated than that.

 

[weeman10]

Love is bad. Love is good. Love is a lot of different things. Love can be romantic love, friendly love, brotherly love, whatever. There are many different types. But I suppose what you're looking for here is what is romantic love.

Love is something I haven't properly felt yet for anyone. I have liked people before, none more so than my best friend, who's a girl. She's amazing in a lot of ways, but I keep my feelings to myself for fear of rejection/depression etc.

So yeah, love for me is just another emotion that I'm yet to express fully. I find it hard expressing emotions. Probably because I'm lazy.

I hate love. C:

Seriously. I've never been in love, or with anyone in my entire life. It upsets me when I think about it.. because people say I'm pretty and all, aye? Well.. I think the reason I have a hard time believing such comments on my appearance, and because I have such low self-esteem, is because I haven't been with someone to MAKE me feel I am pretty.. My crushes? Never returned. Which makes me feel x10 worse about myself. Makes me feel I won't find anyone.. even though people say I will someday, I also have a hard time believing that too because my crushes are never returned.

I am sick of seeing 12 year olds going through girl/boyfriends like it's their last day on earth. They don't even know the darned meaning of the word love. While me? I'm sitting here wishing and hoping someone, just someone I like would like me back for once. All the time, all the freakin' time I am led on by guys I waste my time liking. So now, I just keep crushes to myself. It's ruined friendships with numerous friends I had here. So yeah, thanks a lot love.

I get your point about the 12 year olds, that really does annoy me when they talk about how much they love one another and then two days later, they're 'not together anymore'. Annoys me.

I have low self-esteem too. I have friends and most people sort of like me, but I've been branded as 'ugly' and therefore am doomed to never get a girlfriend until I leave school, which sucks really.

 

[Massacre.]

A person I love is someone that I enjoy to talk to, are good friends of mine, and are related in some interests. I hate the idea of a lot of boy/girlfriends, so I do agree with you, Zebeedoo. I've only had 1 person I "loved", my self. I had several GF's before, but after several break-ups I decided to stay alone.

 

[Rogue planet]

I hate love. C:

Seriously. I've never been in love, or with anyone in my entire life. It upsets me when I think about it.. because people say I'm pretty and all, aye? Well.. I think the reason I have a hard time believing such comments on my appearance, and because I have such low self-esteem, is because I haven't been with someone to MAKE me feel I am pretty..

Gurl, prettiness isn't everything when it comes to relationships. You just haven't found the right guy for you yet, when you do, they won't even care what you look like because you'll be beautiful to them no matter what. Beauty is subjective, and when people are in love there is nothing but beauty.

You're only 16, love can come to anyone, you just have to realise what guys are worth holding on to and what ones aren't worth it. Love is not ever negative, you just need to bring it into perspective and stop looking for it. You can't go looking for love, it has to find you.

 

[Amore]

Personally I prefer amore ;P

It annoys me when I see 15 year old couples saying that they are so in love. How do they know what love is? And I can 99% guarantee that they are just feeling lust.​

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This. It really annoys me when people are like that, and I'm 16 (god I have such a cynical outlook on life, don't I?). Then again, it's kinda cute.

I've been branded as one of the "Weird kids", so I guess that screws up my chances ;P
However, I think everyone should be in love with somebody at one point in their lives. Preferably not when they're really young, because that'd be just awkward as most relationships started under 20 end under 20 as far as I know.

 

[Sammi]

I'm the kind of person who thinks that there's several kinds of love out there.

I've never felt love in a romantic sense, so I don't feel fit to describe that. Yet I write about it all the time. I think it's because it's something I want to experience someday, and it's something that's a big part of our culture, our way of life. In a sense, it's hard to avoid exploring it at some point (although I wouldn't say unavoidable). I do hope that someday, I'll fall in love, but I do believe that I have to at least put some sort of effort into it. I'm not going to find love if I just sit and do nothing like I do right now. Granted, I couldn't tell you what I'd have to do to start... XD;

I do love my family, very much. In that sense, I feel that it's a very deep caring for the people close to you. These are people that you want to spend your time with, that you want to make happy, that you don't want to see them hurt. They're people that you'd go above and beyond for, to keep them happy and safe. They're the people I trust the most, perhaps because I love them.

...love is very hard to describe. Or maybe I just suck at descriptions. :(

 

[Shiro]

I don't know what love is. I know what it's SUPPOSED to be, or how people say it's SUPPOSED to feel like, but I've never experienced romantic love myself. I guess I'm kind of afraid of it in some ways, because love is kinda terrifying. It's giving someone the power to completely and totally crush you. You could give your all to someone, and somewhere down the line it couldn't work out. And I'm really terrified of that happening. But maybe getting over those fears is part of accepting your love for someone and being with them? Iunno, I really wish I had answers. I'm not even in love and it's already so confuuuuusing. :c

AND OH GOD YES A DOUBLE MILLION TIMES YES AT LIKE FIFTH GRADERS DATING.
Kiddos.
You're like... ten. What are you going to do with your girlfriend on your dates? Take her to your room and watch Spongebob? Oooh, maybe you'll take your relationship to the next level tonight and confess to her you still wet the bed. YOU STUD, YOU.

 

[Esper]

(enjoy my wall of text)

Love is good will toward someone. To put it in more words: love is when you feel a certain way which informs your actions toward a person that stems from a desire to see that person's well-being increase, however it is that you interpret an improvement to their well-being (though common ways might be wishing to see the person be happier or more self-confident, etc.). By my definition I accept that 12 year old's can love. To say that they don't know what love is isn't really accurate. It would be, perhaps, more accurate to say that they may not know what romantic love is. It would probably be most accurate to say that they don't yet understand how to reconcile their feelings of love and their independence/common sense/moderation because they allow their feelings for another person to override everything else in their lives. And who can blame them? You don't know that eating an entire cake will give you a horrible stomach ache the first time you taste cake even if that's what everyone tells you. I don't want to judge someone for being new to something even if seeing them eat the whole cake isn't pleasant for me.

It might also be true to say that they don't actually feel love for another person, but just for themselves if they only attempt to be in a relationship for their own pleasure, but that's something I wouldn't assume of anyone unless I knew more about their situation and personality.

I'm going to echo what Syd said: "Love is a word with a lot of meaning and no true definition." While I've got my own interpretation of the word which I think is pretty inclusive, I believe that there are far too many forms of love that one word really isn't enough and can actually be pretty unhelpful because we all make assumptions about what it is and then talk to each other using just one word which means something different to each of us.