LOVE…

Activity # 14 (Miguel Paz)

Love… a word with a wide variety of definitions. The most common and at the same time, the most complicated word there is. Generally, it means a deep, passionate affection with another. Some say love is freedom, others say that love means “togetherness,” but what does love truly mean? What is the closest definition associated to it?

Actually, everything said above is true. Defining love really depends on how the person looks at it — love among friends (philos), love between two different genders (eros), and the greatest love of all, love of God (agape).

Love is that “grumbling” feeling you get inside you, often known as, “butterflies in the stomach.” Love is that feeling that numbs your senses whenever close to your loved ones. Love is a disease that directly strikes you in the heart. Loving people is also a decision; it can be unconditional or selfish.

Every time I am asked what the word ‘love’ means, my mind blackens and all I get to say is, “huh?” Maybe because I’ve never understood what it truly means. Children of my age always think that their crushes and their boyfriends/girlfriends would be their “true love,” and some mature people think that loving someone at an early age is vain. To tell you the truth, they are both correct and wrong at the same time. Only time judges whether these are correct.

“Love can be of many definitions, it just depends on how you look at it.”