Photo By Aaron Burden
A question we have all probably asked ourselves at some point in our lives: What is love?
Why though? Why do we continuously bother to look for the answer to this question?
My theory: we have been programmed.
Since we were young, we have been taught that a full life involves success and a happy marriage, and what is a successful marriage without love? It is nothing, really. So, after so many years of the idea of love playing continuously in our minds like a broken record, we believe it now.
Most of us believe that life is not complete without love. That without love there is always going to be a missing piece in our lives.
In most ways this is true, but where we get it wrong is pursing love in the wrong places.
Love is true friendship. Love is not jealousy or pain. Love is not petty. It understands. Love should make you smile and laugh, not cry. Love is a feeling you cannot explain because words do not begin to properly describe it.
We should not mistake the desire to be in love or to be loved with real love. The short satisfaction we get when we dwell too long on the idea of love ruins it in our minds in the long run.
So, what is my definition of love?
Love, for me, is beyond the butterflies you feel when someone walks into a room…
… after over 30 solid minutes of actually thinking (like hardcore thinking), I could not come up with anything. The feeling of love is not something words can properly and completely describe.
The best thing about love?
You can easily identify it, because it is not like any other emotion we feel.