What is Love?

[sun]

About love.

There's actually a few different words for Love from ancient Greece and adapted throughout time, and I may be a tad off. Eros is physical love - not just lust, but a wanting for physical unity. Philia is familial love, brotherly love. Storge is a natural affection, like that for cute things (plushes!) or motherly love. Agape is the big one - spiritual, sacrificial love, like that of a mother giving everything for her children, or the ideal love of a god to the world. Various sources have put it different ways, but it just shows that Love for one thing doesn't mean Love for another. For another look at that variety (and at the risk of looking academic), you should look up the triangle theory of love, which places Intimacy, Passion, and Commitment at different combinations to produce 7 distinct kinds of Love.

Love is a very broad term, but generally, it means... okay, I can't think of a general description that fits every scenario. I heard it once in an interesting way tho: 'Love is seeing someone or something as it is, and not as one imagines it, and treating it as it deserves' A little less poetic than most, but I love it

As for unrequited love - it depends. If you really love someone, it matters not whether they love you 'as much' back. If you're clingy and self-serving, then it will hurt when your love is not returned. A bit harsh, mayhaps, but some truth in there.

Love means a lot of things to many people..this discription by Borg 4 of 3 is in my opinion, excellent..There are different kinds of love, just as there are different kinds of hate. levels, intensities, desires, implications, reasons, etc...This is the most intimate, yet one of the most universal of all subjects..For some one who is older to say to a younger person, "oh you don't know anything about love, is wrong.." A younger person may not see love as someone who has been married for 40 years sees love, but for a 17 year old in love, it is "love." Thre is not enough room or time to adequately discuss this here, or perhaps anywhere..I remember reading a play about it once...Something about "Romeo and a girl -Juliet".....by a well known playwriter of the times., for all times.

 

[wonderfly]

What is Love? Love is many things, but in the end, it boils down to just caring for other people. Love is simply the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

 

[BluFire1213]

i really only have an idea of what love is...considering I am only 13... i won't know what love is for a long time and i realize that....what i think love is...is a bond between 2 people... true love is a bond that can never be broken... but, it's where the couple loves to be together,.. they have deep feelings for one another...they share personalitys and characterisics together... they don't like being apart from one another for long periods of time...they create memories together..sometimes they never want to forget those memories..and sometimes it will scar them for life..but true love is being able to forgive and forget...to not always look back at the past..but to look forward to the future....true love is when they morn over their loved ones death ,...and sometimes don't remarry at all in the end...lovers in love is such a wonderful thing for most.. an that's basicly all i can sumerize in my head... if this seems like a mature responce.. it probably is..people say i'm more mature than an 18 year old sometimes... i think that's pretty cool.. well my work is done here..so until next time,bye!

 

[BluFire1213]

anyone wanna give their opinon on wat love is anymore?