Love...

There's a whole lot of babble down there, but this is the main idea of what I think:

There's a huge responsibility that comes with saying "I love you," and most guys (or people, I dont know) don't realize that. Because once you say those words both people are vulnerable and you're making the other person a part of you, or something like that. So basically you shouldn't say it unless you know that you are ready to make that person a part of you for life and are ready to take on that responsibility. I don't know how to explain it any better.

According to The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company, to love is:

1. To have a deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward (a person): "We love our parents. I love my friends."
2. To have a feeling of intense desire and attraction toward (a person).
3. To have an intense emotional attachment to: "loves his house."
4. a. To embrace or caress. b. To have sexual intercourse with.

I dont know, maybe i'm wrong. I thought that love is something a lot greater than what is described above. I thought it was something more serious, more real, and more "forever-sounding." The way I thought of it, one has to know the other person completely to be able to love them. I think its impossible to love someone without knowing them. That's the only way you would know thats it's 100% real. But getting to know someone can take a really long time.

I guess most people think love is something simpler, such as a strong attraction to someone. Well let them think that, but I still think I'm right in a way, call me old-fashioned or whatever. People take love too lightly now. They think they're in love, and they say so, without knowing what love really is. Or maybe they think they know, but I don't think they really understand it. I think that (in most cases) if you love someone you always will. There's no such thing as falling out of love. If you're able to stop loving a person, then chances are, you never did love them.
Just something to consider before you go telling people you love them.
Then again maybe I'm wrong...

This is how some people I know described love:

Fugitive Turkey: Well, my feathers become flustered.

thinking about them arouses variety of emotion simultaneously

well see love doesn't approach everyone in the same way everyone experiences love differently but it can be relevant to another persons feelings

well ok see love is when you can give your life to that person and know that they will take care of it for you

and if you wanna know something there's only one word for love it's "understanding." to love someone is to understand them. understanding is not just love it's a whole lot of things

no matter what you feel, break it down about the other person, see how much of your happiness actually stems from the person and not just happy thoughts about the person

Now that I think about it, I don't think love is about a feeling at all. Well, of course the feeling has to be there, and it has to be strong and blah blah. But I think love comes from friendship and knowing the person for so long that you just know you love them. I think that to love someone you have to respect them.

Ehh, I don't know anything anyway....

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