No True Definition to Love Before my first encounter, love was just a mean less four letter word. Until I ran across my first love that changed my perception on the importance of what love means. Although love is not the easiest thing to understand, no one wonts to go through life without enduring such a beautiful thing as loving someone or having someone to love them. Not all love is the same love. Different aspects of love come by easier than others. Love for family and love for your significant other is like apples and oranges. A mother’s love is physical, emotional, spiritual, and social. Loving someone as a partner, in most cases only gives you three out of four of the essential needs you need to help the human body function properly. The difference between loving your family and loving your partner is you can never be in love with your mother, father, sister, or brother. Being in love is believing that your partner is so amazing that you want them to be a part of you. When falling in love you feel as if that person completes you, it is like…
That right there is simply the definition of love. But who is to say that REALLY is the true meaning of the word? Love is so much more than simple sentence. It 's a feeling that is way beyond us, so much, that we as people can barely grasp the concept. Love breaks the rules of logic, science, and theory, it 's way more powerful than one can imagine. Brianna, to put it to you in words. I can 't even comprehend myself how much I love you, because there isn 't an extent. It 's forever increasing…
are many meanings of the word love, and love means many things to different people. Love is a simple four letter word, but that four letter word goes a long way. Every person has their own opinion on love, and if asked to give a definition on love you will receive a different definition from every person. This is because every person sees and feels love differently. I asked a simple question to twenty random people. My question to those people was “In your own words what is love?” My answers…
¨And love is not a victory march, It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah.¨ I want to meet Leonard Cohen. I want to ask him why love broke him. I want to know why it froze him. His words intrigue me. And they have resonated as anthems for numerous people throughout the last few decades. I have heard of the differences in the types of love but mainly I think people would agree love is either romantic or platonic. But do people really know the definition of love? Do I even truly know the…
Across the aisle was the love of her life. He was her rock and she was his. They had been best friends since they were young and now here they were, standing in front of all their loved ones. She had a gorgeous white dress on and he was suited up to look like a king. As they recited their vows and pronounced their love for each other, they both knew this was it. This was their forever. Many people in society today throw the word love around as if it means nothing. “Love is a variety of…
In May, I joined the track team and was introduced the most caring people on this campus. I came upon a boy who was learning to love again where as my definition of love was lost in translation from years of carrying my imperfections on my back. Although I do not consider this boy and me to be “together,” I consider him to be someone who is very close to my heart. His charisma is flirty and into all sorts of children toys, his “Peter Pan syndrome” proved to be my saving grace uncovering the…
In the Merriam-Webster dictionary, love is defined as “a feeling of strong or constant affection for a person”. Nevertheless, as a universal concept, love does not have a specific set meaning. It is an ambiguous notion, since its definition is open to more than one interpretation. Love is something that means different things to different people. In the twenty-first century, love is becoming an obsolete concept that devours the mind of young women to obey the wishes of reckless men because of…
What is the definition of love? What would motivate a man to stand between his wife and the barrel of a gun or keep a young woman beside the hospital bed of her comatose fiancé? Love, is a word of endless meaning, a subject of complex debate, and an idea of perfect imperfection; a story without an ending. The Holy Bible’s 1 Corinthians 13:13 hastened to say, “now abides faith, hope, [and] love, these three; but the greatest of these is love” (KJV) I believe love to not only be an idea, but a…
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…
Fromm formed a definition of love that is simple, yet comprehensive. He broke love into four connected but distinct elements: respect, care, knowledge, and responsibility (hooks 19). These forms can exist on their own, but when authentic and genuine love is practiced, the four must exist together. We must, at the very least, respect others. Often times, when a relationship is established, we go above that basic respect and care for others. Care is practiced when we collect knowledge on how to…