Love is a term everyone has heard at least once and more likely they have heard it used in numerous different ways. So what is it; what is love? What is the correct way to use the term?
And why do we use it in so many different ways?
Oxford English dictionary defines love as, “A feeling or disposition of deep affection or fondness for someone, typically arising from a recognition of attractive qualities, from natural affinity, or from sympathy and manifesting itself in concern for the other 's welfare and pleasure in his or her presence”. This is a fair definition when speaking of love for another person, the general wish for another person’s wellbeing and happiness, its great but it’s not the same as when I say I love ice cream. This is …show more content…
But what these people are looking for isn’t just another person to be attracted to them and care about them. Love Shared between someone and there “person” is a deep mutual love. The kind of love where you would do anything for that person and you long for them when there away. Once you actually fall in love with someone you never fall out of love, it’s like a switch that only goes one way. I am a firm believer that love never dies it only changes. But sometimes love is only one sided and one party will crush the other non-intentionally just because he or she is simply not in love like the other is. And they won’t realize there doing it and although the loving party will be hurt they will continue to let it happen over and over because that’s what love is to some people, never giving up. Sometimes we have to give up on a person in one situation or anther there is no choice and just because you gave up doesn’t mean you stopped loving them. It just means you’ve made the mature decision to subdue your feelings to eventually make both parties …show more content…
It’s the same in the way that the love doesn’t end, but different in the fact that the love from the father starts before the child is born. The father didn’t have to meet lots of kids before he decided to love one, he just loves him unconditionally. There’s a great example of this in a song by George Straight, “A Love Without End Amen”. *Father Speaking to son* “Let me tell you a secret about a father’s love, a secret that my daddy said was just between us, daddy’s don’t just love their children every now and then, it’s a love without end Amen”. The song starts out with the child coming home from school with a black eye from fighting and he feels guilty and is scared of how his father will take the news. That’s when George Straight sings the line I inserted
And why do we use it in so many different ways?
Oxford English dictionary defines love as, “A feeling or disposition of deep affection or fondness for someone, typically arising from a recognition of attractive qualities, from natural affinity, or from sympathy and manifesting itself in concern for the other 's welfare and pleasure in his or her presence”. This is a fair definition when speaking of love for another person, the general wish for another person’s wellbeing and happiness, its great but it’s not the same as when I say I love ice cream. This is …show more content…
But what these people are looking for isn’t just another person to be attracted to them and care about them. Love Shared between someone and there “person” is a deep mutual love. The kind of love where you would do anything for that person and you long for them when there away. Once you actually fall in love with someone you never fall out of love, it’s like a switch that only goes one way. I am a firm believer that love never dies it only changes. But sometimes love is only one sided and one party will crush the other non-intentionally just because he or she is simply not in love like the other is. And they won’t realize there doing it and although the loving party will be hurt they will continue to let it happen over and over because that’s what love is to some people, never giving up. Sometimes we have to give up on a person in one situation or anther there is no choice and just because you gave up doesn’t mean you stopped loving them. It just means you’ve made the mature decision to subdue your feelings to eventually make both parties …show more content…
It’s the same in the way that the love doesn’t end, but different in the fact that the love from the father starts before the child is born. The father didn’t have to meet lots of kids before he decided to love one, he just loves him unconditionally. There’s a great example of this in a song by George Straight, “A Love Without End Amen”. *Father Speaking to son* “Let me tell you a secret about a father’s love, a secret that my daddy said was just between us, daddy’s don’t just love their children every now and then, it’s a love without end Amen”. The song starts out with the child coming home from school with a black eye from fighting and he feels guilty and is scared of how his father will take the news. That’s when George Straight sings the line I inserted