What Is Love?

And so after the many years that I actually thought I felt "love" before, I've finally been able to put this feeling in words - though it barely explains the full feeling of what is not reality, but a feeling that feels so unexplainable yet so natural and real.



Love is...



Loving a person, regardless how painful or treacherous it may be, if you truely love them, you would continue to do so without reason. And in the end, you'd never expect anything in return simply because you only want them to happy regardless how hard it is on yourself. When loving a person in one strange yet powerful way, a way in which you, yourself can not deny because the more pain or sadness that is inflicted on them, the more you get hurt. And when you've given everything you have to them, when they can't possibly mean more than your life to you because they are your life, you can't possibly expect anything in return because it doesn't matter whether you are happy or not, you just want them to be happy



Loving someone takes a simple set of requirements:

1. The feeling of love is different for everyone. These may not all apply to you.


2. Your number one priority all of a sudden is to make them happy. No it is not to provide them with what they need, but to allow them to be happy. So when giving a person what they need like helping them through the bad times, it is not the same as giving the person what they need if they are not happy with the outcome in the end.


3. If they're happy, you are simply happy regardless if the situation itself refers to you or not. This is the same for feelings such as: sad, mad, furious etc.
4. When the person you love is in pain, your instincts would too cause pain to you, not physically but in a way where when they're hurt, your heart throbs with a need to go comfort them and do anything in your power to help them out.
5. Ensuring the person is happy is number one priority, not their needs. There are no exceptions except under the circumstances that the person you love is in a life or death situation. (Refer to #2)
6. It doesn't matter whether the person causes you pain or not, and it doesn't matter if the same feelings are returned or nuetral, in the end, it all comes down to enduring what ever pain necessary as long as rules # 2 and 5 are accomplished. Yes, this includes both physical and emotional pain.
7. If the person you love, loves someone else and you decide to move on, you have never loved the person in the first place because when loving someone, it is not in your power to decide whether or not you are able to give up.
8. If the person you love, loves someone else, you encourage them to be with the person they love simply because it is a big part of completing #s 2 and 6.
9. When loving someone, you are willing to give up your life for them without second thought.
10. None of these "rules" are necessarily true for everyone, however, that is because people that are in love don't notice or shouldn't notice these things themselves because the feeling is automatic. You also wouldn't be considering these "reasons" to love someone because there is only one reason to loving someone. That would be "I love you."

"I love the way you smile, I love how you can cook, I love how your voice soothes me to sleep. But if there ever was a reason as to why I love you, the only reason would be, because I love you." - Jiro Wang