Love

[Brandon237]

what is love? Is it a sexualised friendship; a deep emotional dependence on another person to the point where it aches to think of them leaving for any period of time; a mutual respect that exists independent of lust, but normally accompanies it?

Since I am the most qualified to answer this;

Love is what you feel.
If you feel love when you are 16, it is love.
If you are 70, it is love.

It's only a bunch of fools who want to point at younglings and say "Ho ho ho, that's not love. What we have is love! What you have is hormones."
They fail to take into consideration that people are different. Just because you're 16 doesn't mean you have to be immature or only think about sex.

Thank-you for that, I'm tempted to say I love you for that comment, but that would be a little much.

But yes, I am only 15 and I can say for a fact that I love my girlfriend, when someone really is special to you and has done a lot for you, it means something, no matter whether you are still young or not. They have actually done proper, well backed studies and found that early love can be serious business.

That's my 2 cents.

 

[Random Argument Man]

Ooooooo! I can finally use a funny quote.


"The Encyclopedia Galactica chapter on love states that it is far too complicated to define. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of love: avoid if at all possible."

 

[nunqual]

Love is caring for someone, and knowing without a doubt they care about you just as much. Love is happiness in the form of someone special, and love is wonderful.

 

[nunqual]

what is love? Is it a sexualised friendship; a deep emotional dependence on another person to the point where it aches to think of them leaving for any period of time; a mutual respect that exists independent of lust, but normally accompanies it?

Since I am the most qualified to answer this;

Love is what you feel.
If you feel love when you are 16, it is love.
If you are 70, it is love.

It's only a bunch of fools who want to point at younglings and say "Ho ho ho, that's not love. What we have is love! What you have is hormones."
They fail to take into consideration that people are different. Just because you're 16 doesn't mean you have to be immature or only think about sex.

Thank-you for that, I'm tempted to say I love you for that comment, but that would be a little much.

But yes, I am only 15 and I can say for a fact that I love my girlfriend, when someone really is special to you and has done a lot for you, it means something, no matter whether you are still young or not. They have actually done proper, well backed studies and found that early love can be serious business.

That's my 2 cents.

I concur. I used to be very skeptical of young love, but that was when I was single and I could scoff at such things. Now I'm in a wonderful relationship with a girl who I can honestly I love. and It's a wonderful feeling, one of the best in the world.

 

[darthotaku]

Love is the ultimate reason for life. it's when the first thought when you wake up is of the other person, when you think about them all day, when they are your last thought before you go to sleep, and whenyour worst nightmare with them is better than your best dream without them.
it's also when you don't care that they don't care about you. you still love them anyway.

 

[Valiance]

Okay, I'm a 16 year old. Among my age group there seems to be this massive belief among the couples that they are in love, and a belief among the singles that at 16 you are probably too hormonal to know what love is. And, for the most part, I agree, we/I are far too young and inexperienced to know what love is without having experienced it. So what I want to know, from those escapists (escapians?) who have found love is this; what is love? Is it a sexualised friendship; a deep emotional dependence on another person to the point where it aches to think of them leaving for any period of time; a mutual respect that exists independent of lust, but normally accompanies it?

Nice Toph avatar.

Anyway, the definition of finding love is pretty damn loose. From your options, we have three: a shallow physical relationship, an obsessive emotional longing, and the trust and respect that comes from camaraderie.

A relationship based upon one of these things is generally weak and unhealthy. Bizarrely, from my limited experience with it, I've found that love combines all three in a yin-yang sort of zen balance, for lack of a better term.

Some instances of love began as a friendship which gradually led to attraction and respect, with common interests leading to spending time together more which brought the attraction on. Others start with a fiery spark, the storybook "at first glance" from across the room based upon initial impressions and contact, based upon fantasy, excitement, and physicality. However, the strongest love is unyielding, infinite, and unconditional. The romance, the eroticism, the simple compatibility, (You know, that "light-up-a-smile-on-your-face-when-she-walks-in-the-room" kind) it's all there.

Finding it is another story, but knowing what it is would probably be the first step.

 

[Atmos Duality]

There are too many definitions of love, but my dear (and recently) departed grandmother left me with this quote (directed at my delinquent cousin):

"I don't do these things for you because I like ya. I do it because I love ya."

Pardon me if I think love is more than just an irrational mechanism designed to keep us from murdering each other.

 

[Verp]

Love is the ultimate reason for life. it's when the first thought when you wake up is of the other person, when you think about them all day, when they are your last thought before you go to sleep, and whenyour worst nightmare with them is better than your best dream without them.
it's also when you don't care that they don't care about you. you still love them anyway.

Ultimate reason for life? Strange, I'm living quite fine without it as an aromantic asexual. I also know that there are more people like me.

 

[Lynx]

Love is different for everyone. To me, love is having a best friend that you're in love with and attracted to. Sure, the lovey-dovey things are cute, but the real love, trust and honesty comes from the underlying friendship, and I think that's what ultimately keeps two people together.

 

[Nieroshai]

First of all, fuck off with the relationship threads.

Secondly, love is a cankersore; a disgusting, despicable, offensive, sickening emotion which rots the brain, which destroys the body.

I'm detecting that a certain someone has had a slightly bad experience with the warm and fuzzy side of life?

RAK

I have a feeling you don't like life.
1. Fuck off. No one asked you. You could've simply avoided clicking tthat little button and saved everyone including you a major headache.
2. Either get therapy or become a hermit. Meaning: fix what's wrong with you or leave society. Hating the only thing that keeps society sane is PROBABLY a sign that there's something wrong with you.

What your statement says about you:
1. You got spurned once, and you're a crybaby.
2. You think it's cool to act like a surly bastard. Take my word for it, it's not.
3. You're emo/misanthropic. See above.

hmmm... what the hell is your problem?
what's the thread title? -Love
what do you hate? -Love
Why click on it then? -Because you want to ***** to everyone.

why did you quote a response and not they guy? He probably won't read it now! Unless, you kinda don't want him to know about it but still assert yourself as a strong, noble member of society?

Or did you accidentally quote the wrong person? I'm betting on this one.

Was thinking the same thing: I was calling out a guy who was being an antisocial creep, and it sounds like I was being CALLED one.

 

[Machiavellian007]

Secondly, love is a cankersore; a disgusting, despicable, offensive, sickening emotion which rots the brain, which destroys the body. It's the endocrine system's way of mocking you, of rendering you completely incapable of any intelligent response.

Possibly one of the best descriptions of love I've ever seen.

 

[leviathanmisha]

Love for me was many things...I feel like a list is in order.

1.) It helped me pick up the pieces of me that were scattered.
2.) It showed me that the world can be a wonderful place.
3.) It allowed me to get enamored with the thought of forever.
4.) It also allowed me open up the flood gates of my past and share it with someone who cared.

But in the end, I'm alone and I'm just starting out on the road of life, afraid of the world. I let in the one person who swore to never hurt me and well, 3 1/2 years later I'm as broken as I was when this all started. Yes, I'm jaded, but I know that love exists. I've tasted it. When you can walk into a room and see that person and smile like they're the only person in the world that matters, when you can have a rough as hell day and a hug from them makes everything better, and when you can tell them all the secrets and dreams that your heart holds and know that they won't laugh, well, you my lucky gentleman or lady, have just found love...and you better hold onto it, cause you never know if it will ever slip away.

And yes, I'm only 18 and this is my thoughts on life and love, but I've had a very long 18 years.

 

[SimuLord]

Love for me was many things...I feel like a list is in order.

1.) It helped me pick up the pieces of me that were scattered.
2.) It showed me that the world can be a wonderful place.
3.) It allowed me to get enamored with the thought of forever.
4.) It also allowed me open up the flood gates of my past and share it with someone who cared.

But in the end, I'm alone and I'm just starting out on the road of life, afraid of the world. I let in the one person who swore to never hurt me and well, 3 1/2 years later I'm as broken as I was when this all started. Yes, I'm jaded, but I know that love exists. I've tasted it. When you can walk into a room and see that person and smile like they're the only person in the world that matters, when you can have a rough as hell day and a hug from them makes everything better, and when you can tell them all the secrets and dreams that your heart holds and know that they won't laugh, well, you my lucky gentleman or lady, have just found love...and you better hold onto it, cause you never know if it will ever slip away.

And yes, I'm only 18 and this is my thoughts on life and love, but I've had a very long 18 years.

If I had a nickel for every 18-year-old girl who thought she had more life experience than a war veteran, I could buy a car.

You ain't seen nothin' yet, girl.

 

[Madara XIII]

What is love? Baby don't hu-*hit with a brick*

All you need is lo-*hit with a boulder*

I would do anything for lo- *run over by Meatloaf on his motorcycle*

When I fall in lo- *haunted by Nat King Cole's ghost*

~Don't you Want Somebody to lo- *Jefferson Airplane Nosedives jet into me* X__X

 

[LHZA]

You can too fall in love at 16. I did, and I'm still with him some 8 or 9 years later, happily living in sin.
This post is sappy.

 

[leviathanmisha]

Love for me was many things...I feel like a list is in order.

1.) It helped me pick up the pieces of me that were scattered.
2.) It showed me that the world can be a wonderful place.
3.) It allowed me to get enamored with the thought of forever.
4.) It also allowed me open up the flood gates of my past and share it with someone who cared.

But in the end, I'm alone and I'm just starting out on the road of life, afraid of the world. I let in the one person who swore to never hurt me and well, 3 1/2 years later I'm as broken as I was when this all started. Yes, I'm jaded, but I know that love exists. I've tasted it. When you can walk into a room and see that person and smile like they're the only person in the world that matters, when you can have a rough as hell day and a hug from them makes everything better, and when you can tell them all the secrets and dreams that your heart holds and know that they won't laugh, well, you my lucky gentleman or lady, have just found love...and you better hold onto it, cause you never know if it will ever slip away.

And yes, I'm only 18 and this is my thoughts on life and love, but I've had a very long 18 years.

If I had a nickel for every 18-year-old girl who thought she had more life experience than a war veteran, I could buy a car.

You ain't seen nothin' yet, girl.

I'm only going to say this, if I had a nickel for every time someone wrote me off for being an average 18 year old, I'd be hella rich. There are reasons why I don't let people in.

And SimuLord, I have seen things, things that in the 5 years that I've known most of my friends, they still can't understand how I keep trucking through life the way I do.

And I was raised by a Vietnam War Vet...I do have a degree of understanding of what you guys go through. But let's just say that our life experiences are different and leave it at that.