An Essay About Love

Love, love is such a strong word now a day. Before it was just tossed around willy-nilly. You might have said, you were in love when you were with the first person you dated, or maybe the next person after that. However, the thought of it did you really want to be dating that person? Were you really in love? Do you even want to be in love for that matter? Or were you just playing along with the roles that society has given us today. Love isn’t for everyone, and Kipnis’ story “Against Love” and…

some kind of sociopath of a child (mostly), I have always loved my mom. But when you are a kid you love people very shallowly, it's just a thing you say before bed and hug a family member. It doesn't usually go deeper than that for a child. Love though is more than a word its an action that requires selflessness, understanding, and sacrifice. And I at age 14 was about to learn step by step how to love someone. To understand this story we have to go a little further back Into my past. See my mom…

What Is Love? What is love? This is one of the most frequently asked questions, but do people really know how to define it? Love is a choice we make in committing to someone and giving them our all. Love is not just a feeling. Love can bring the best out in someone and the most joy, but it can also fade away. Love is sudden and wild, which is the reason it is so destructive, yet awesome. I had sworn off the entire male race for some time, and chose to concentrate on myself, however thinking…

What Love Can Do To a Person All women wish to find the ideal, perfect man, and all men want to find the beautiful, kind, and amazing woman. A woman (or a man) wants someone that can’t bear to live without her, and someone who will understand her and will never give up on her. In a previous book I read, called “Romeo and Juliet”, I found that true love between Romeo and Juliet. One can’t bear to live without the other, and so they end up killing themselves so they don’t have to live alone in…

According to Dictionary.com, love is defined as an intense feeling or affection for a person or thing that someone loves. Love has been known to cause physiological and psychological effects such as increased heart rate, loss of appetite and sleep, and a feeling of excitement. The brain also releases chemicals such as dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin. The words koi (恋), ai (愛), and ren'ai (恋愛) all mean love in Japanese. Love has been into all aspect of the world. The word love first…

What is love? People throw this word around every day, without even knowing the true meaning. According to Oxford dictionary, love is “an intense feeling of deep affection”. To me, this definition is the best way to describe this feeling. However, each person has their own individual meaning of love. Love comes in many different forms. It could be the love you have for a best friend, parent, significant other or even a sport. My love for my mother is totally different from the love I have for…

to win over their love but will fail in the end. The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, talks about the West Egg and East Egg in the luxurious time of the 1920’s. The novel revolves around the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan. This forbidden love is able to portray Fitzgerald’s message in the novel that money can buy an individual popularity in society but not sacrificial love. In society, money cannot get a person, sacrificial love. Leading in from a…

Our current social paradox of love has left many us 20 somethings that are looking for their “forever thing” quite disappointed. From high school sweethearts, college romances, night life hook-ups and tinder dates, we’ve managed to become the masters none and the Jackass’ of them all. Nothing seems to work, possibly because the same people we meet on Tinder are the same people attending we're universities and hitting the town with. Our perspective and mentality on love is up for discussion, not…

While many people view love as a state of bliss and carefree enjoyment, those entangled in a hopeless situation yearn to escape its cruel grasp. When loves ensnares someone, he or she often acts uncontrollably and thinks delirious thoughts. Shakespeare explores the ridiculous responses to love through a hopeless love triangle in his play Twelfth Night. At the beginning of the play, Count Orsino of Illyria mopes around his home and pines for the grieving lady Olivia by sending messengers to her…

Love in a way can be described as something that has to be felt from the deep roots of our soul. It is something that we all need and desire whether it is sexual,common or consensual. You see, everybody shows their love and affection different from each other, nobody is the same. However the question that keeps getting brought up is, what exactly is this thing we call love? At the start of the symposium each of the philosophers and poets start to explain what the concept of love is to each one…