Love, A Subject Revisited. "All, everything that I understand, I understand because love is." (Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace) What is love? Webster's Dictionary defines love as: "a feeling of strong or constant affection for a person." Although the definition widely capsulated the feelings of the billions of people on this planet, the word 'love' is defined in a countless multitude of ways. The definition seems to change throughout the course of history developing as mankind does. Our definitions changing as our own personal factors on the matter interject. However, love remains the same general concept and definition throughout the essence of time. Time is a considerable factor in the mindset of any one person due to the environment and mannerisms
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Love for adults definitely varies compared to love for adolescents. "Love is a smile that shines through the dark. Love is a pure emotion that requires no reason to exist. Anger and sadness, however, require some action for a reaction. Love does not. Other emotions come from the head but I truly believe love comes from the heart. I was deeply in love with my husband. Through the years, love remained a constant while other emotions came and went. The love continued and lasted." (Julie Stupp, 53) As we love someone in our youth, we discover much more about love than ever thought possible. We discover it is not what we thought love should be as a child, there are no dragons or wizards but the magic is still there. Magic through being able to grow and discover who you are with the person you adore. "My personal definition of love is knowing someone's flaws and their bad sides and all their negatives and still wanting to be around them despite all of their issues. Love has affected me by raising my self esteem and making me actually love myself and be a softer, more kind human being. Love is like a plant, if you expect it to grow, flourish and thrive, you have to water it and give it the attention it needs. The end results will be …show more content…
Art is the foundation of which our very souls are built upon, so in turn, love intertwines with art. Cinema is overflowing with references to love seeing as it is a universal entity of sharing thoughts and feelings through visual aspects. Love is why we can watch a foreign film in an entirely different language and still be satisfied because love speaks no language but of the world. “I love that you get cold when it’s 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you’re looking at me like I’m nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it’s not because I’m lonely, and it’s not because it’s New Year’s Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”(Harry Burns, When Harry Met Sally) When Harry Met Sally is often seen as one of the greatest and truest romances to grace the modern screen and by personal definition I believe it is adherently so. Love is indeed wanting to be with all of the person you adore, despite their flaws, and loving them even more so because they are unique in those very flaws. Love is often portrayed by definition by
Love for adults definitely varies compared to love for adolescents. "Love is a smile that shines through the dark. Love is a pure emotion that requires no reason to exist. Anger and sadness, however, require some action for a reaction. Love does not. Other emotions come from the head but I truly believe love comes from the heart. I was deeply in love with my husband. Through the years, love remained a constant while other emotions came and went. The love continued and lasted." (Julie Stupp, 53) As we love someone in our youth, we discover much more about love than ever thought possible. We discover it is not what we thought love should be as a child, there are no dragons or wizards but the magic is still there. Magic through being able to grow and discover who you are with the person you adore. "My personal definition of love is knowing someone's flaws and their bad sides and all their negatives and still wanting to be around them despite all of their issues. Love has affected me by raising my self esteem and making me actually love myself and be a softer, more kind human being. Love is like a plant, if you expect it to grow, flourish and thrive, you have to water it and give it the attention it needs. The end results will be …show more content…
Art is the foundation of which our very souls are built upon, so in turn, love intertwines with art. Cinema is overflowing with references to love seeing as it is a universal entity of sharing thoughts and feelings through visual aspects. Love is why we can watch a foreign film in an entirely different language and still be satisfied because love speaks no language but of the world. “I love that you get cold when it’s 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you’re looking at me like I’m nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it’s not because I’m lonely, and it’s not because it’s New Year’s Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”(Harry Burns, When Harry Met Sally) When Harry Met Sally is often seen as one of the greatest and truest romances to grace the modern screen and by personal definition I believe it is adherently so. Love is indeed wanting to be with all of the person you adore, despite their flaws, and loving them even more so because they are unique in those very flaws. Love is often portrayed by definition by