What Is Love?

4 minute(s) · December 13, 2024

This piece explores the complexities, beauty, and challenges of love, emphasizing its transformative power, the dangers of forced attachment, and the fulfillment of genuine emotional connection.

So, what is love? Don’t get me wrong, that was a lovely poem, but did you get an answer for its title? Me, personally, after writing this, I only made myself question love even more. I sparked questions to myself; can you believe that? Don’t worry, though. I will give you an answer. 

Love truly is the best feeling and the best thing ever. You feel like flying in the clouds, with the sky being the limit. Be careful though, don’t fly too close to the sun without the proper preparation or you’ll end up like Icarus. Everything seems amazing, and it’s one of the very few times when you can relate to Louis Armstrong’s ‘What a Wonderful World’, which is quite rare these days. 

Now, what do I mean by “forced love”? I think most of you have heard this phrase, or at least I hope so. People sometimes force themselves to love someone, because that is what their lives miss. They want to fall in love and be loved. 

Maybe, they can’t find anyone that they truly like and they try to love someone, who might seem slightly better than all the others, just to be loved back. Thus, they get attached to them without even realizing it. But, as I say in the poem, they realize it sometime and get tired of it. 

I hope I helped you understand what I mean. It might sound weird and rare and you may be thinking “There’s no way this actually happens” but, in reality, it is very common and we just don’t realize it. 

Love tends to shatter hearts, and leave them in pieces. It is very easy to get hurt because you love. 

To love means to dedicate your everything to making your life and someone else’s life better. To love means to be someone’s best friend and be there for them in the good and the bad times. To love means to care about someone more than anything in the world. 

To be loved means to have someone dedicated to making your life and theirs better. To be loved means to have a best friend, who is there for you in the good and the bad times. To be loved means to matter to someone more than anything in the world. 

To love and to be loved means that two hearts will be healed. To love and to be loved means that two hearts have found peace. To love and to be loved means that two hearts have achieved perfection. 

Love someone. Enough to fight for them. Compromise for them. Enough to stand by their side, and hold their hand through the ups and downs. Enough to never give up on them. Love them enough to spend forever with them. 

Spend each day falling in love with them more and more, and realize that no amount of time is ever enough, and even one day, forever will run out, but this will be fine because getting to love is worth it.  

Love is truly the best thing. The BEST thing you can do in life is love. 

Don't be afraid. Just love. It's the best way to spend life.