rach

on 02 may, 2006 from rachel ang's blog here.
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So, what is love, love is a deep tender ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, OR, a feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance, OR, an intense emotional attachment, taken from the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.

But is love really that simple? How do we draw the line between love, like and lust? is it a thin line seperating the three, or is it something which blurs our judgment.

While growing up, i learnt that love isn't about yourself. it's about others. if we get too caught up in pursuing something we love, say, our careers and forget and neglect ourselves and others around us, is it still called love? we give up everything and everyone just to have something we "love".

But let's move on to the more interesting stuff, love and relatioships. Love and relationships go hand in hand and that without love in a relationship, it's doomed for disaster. But what is love in a relationship, is it the fuzzy feeling we get whenever we see the other? is it the times when we rush out of our way to spend time with him or her? or is it the time when you think of the person and it brings a smile to your face? I would say that it's all this and not.

Love lasts longer than just the moments we spend with our signficant other, it's about how we make it a point to make things work and not because we're doing it for the sake of doing it, but because we want to. Not out of of material and physical gain, but because it makes the other person happy.
I would think love involves pain, it involves the times when you hurt and struggle, but you still carry on, and aren't the least bit disheartened. Like the things in life we have passion for, even if we stumble and fall, pick oursleves up and carry on. We can't expect a smooth journey all the time, i mean like, where's the fun without the bumpy road.

Well, i'm no expert on relationships, si mean, look at me, i haven't really actually had a proper normal or succeful (depends how u define it) realtionship. All i know is that we all get lonely sometimes, and it is nice to have someone around to depend on. Love doesn't stop at just our families, but our friends and even the things we pursue in life.