Without sounding idiotic, what does love feel like?

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NightmareWarden

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Love makes you scared and careful with every action you take. It is hard to hold onto it and losing it causes the worst thing imaginable. It invokes terror and caution. At the same time it melts away any stress, sadness, and disappointment. Love is a paradox in which if you hold it too close, you crush it. If you are too open with it and try to enjoy it to the fullest extent possible, it will be snatched away and lost due to carelessness.

It is like a dull ache from a scar or tattoo. You are glad you got it, but obtaining it was pretty terrible.
 

DoomyMcDoom

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Alright, that title propably made you go: "What kind of emo kid would ask this question?"

Harr harr, very funny. No, I'm not here because I'm a "lone wolf without remorse that who tears of blood" or anything. I'm just genuinly curious. People have since the age of swords and sandals described love as "butterflies in your belly" or other such nonsense used to describe what sounds like gas. Now, I'm not going to try to tell you I've never liked girls. That's clearly a lie. I've liked a lot of girls, they might not have liked me but hey, what can ya do? Dem genetics rite :/? What I've never felt, however, is some kind of "special feeling" for anyone. It's so alien to me infact, that I'm having a really hard time even imagining the emotion. Could anyone please, for the love of toast, tell me what is up with this apparently gas inducing, hallucinogenic emotion? I realize that, like any emotion, it's different to everyone. So just answer what it feels like to you.

Now I need to go do something less cuddly, because I suspect this thread has the potential to make me cringe.

captcha: "yee haw"
Let me explain it, how it felt, the one and only time I have EVER felt love.

It was like having a combination of a fever, and having as much energy or more than my body could contain, it made me feel strength beyond measure, endurance that wouldn't fade, and it made me feel like there was an unbreakable chain between me, and the one I loved, thing is, when you feel smitten for someone and they don't reiterate it cannot get like this, this was a feeling that awoke after she declared love for me.

Then as all things do, her love for me died... And it felt like my internal organs all burst at once... I HAD to drink myself into a coma to keep me from falling on a sword then and there... Then my boss called me trying to get me to come in to work... heh, needless to say I had downed 750ml of vodka within the 20mins prior to that phone call, I wasn't walking to the bus without falling into traffic, my room mate being the awesome friend he is, kept me from leaving, and called my manager to relay my state, so as to say that there was no way in hell barring a miracle of sudden sobriety, that I'd be at work.
After that I felt a hole that wouldn't be filled open in me, and no matter how many women I slept with, or courted, I never found that feeling, even a glimpse, or hint of it since, just mild interest, and maybe a bit of lust, but nothing real, it's like a state of emotional shellshock.

Trust me when I say, do not ever let love overtake you like I did, keep it chained, experience it, but keep it confined, do not let it become a driving foce in your life, instead, give it a passenger seat and keep it there.

As in all life, letting anything become that important to you, will hurt you dearly, as nothing lasts forever.
 

DrOswald

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Many people say that love is dangerous. That it hurts and it makes you vulnerable. These things are true. Nothing is as rewarding as love and for that reason nothing can cut so deep. Love is happiness so intense that it is terrifying, joy so complete that it breaks through ever defense you have and exposes your deepest and most vulnerable self. This is why love is so frighting and dangerous. This is why no one can ever truly convey to you what love is. Nothing else can bring you so high or cut you so deep.

You can choose to protect yourself from love, to never give yourself completely to another. You can choose to love a little, just scraping the surface, never letting it rule you, never letting it break through to your deepest self. You will be safe from the terrible pain that can result from love, but you will never experience the greatest happiness this life has to offer. Your choice.
 

Furioso

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Luftwaffles said:
Well, its really quite simple. Its kinda like....

Gonna find my baby gonna hold her tight
Gonna grab some afternoon delight
My motto's always been when its right its right
Why wait until the middle of a cold dark night
Good sir, would this be what you are referring to?

I always post this in this type of thread
 

Aedes

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I like people's reply so far. So many different views.

I can tell you I fell in love twice.

First time was awesome. I can tell that when I declared to her, I totally felt that "butterflys in the stomach" thing. It really feels like there are insects flying inside you. Luckly for me, she felt the same way. Just being next to her made me unrationally smile, my head sometimes felt fuzzy and light but a cool fuzzy and light feeling if that makes any sense. I could only care to make her happy and when that smile showed upon her face, it was like a star borned inside my chest every time.
When it came to an end, however, my chest wanted to rip itself apart. There was a void that nothing could fill and there were only ashes to what once was my heart.

Second time was... I don't know, I knew it wouldn't work out, that the person would never feel for me what I felt for him but you can't choose who you fall for. It was like a phoenix, reborning from the ashes, warming up my heart once again. The unrational sensation to smile whenever he was around, the heat up feelings when he laughed... it was awesome. Painfully awesome.

So, basically, love is straight down weird. You will simply know when it happens.
 

Risingblade

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Love to me feels like a all consuming, terrifying, wonderful set of emotions. For her, I would wait. Even if my heart decays. I'll hear her out. I won't take her for granted, or push her away. I will always be honest with her. I appreciate her and to be quite honest, I would do just about anything for her. ♥
and then you get friendzoned! :D
 

RedFeather1975

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It usually beings with the feeling that you are the luckiest person in the world.
And it usually ends with feeling like you were conned.

Captcha was heart break. lol
 

Dr Hammer

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From my own observations love is like a dependency on someone. Imagine being addicted to crack or smack and going through withdrawl when that person is not around.

Of course, if you are an addict with access to the thing you are addicted to, you are normally at least pretty content
 

TheRightToArmBears

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Luftwaffles said:
Well, its really quite simple. Its kinda like....

Gonna find my baby gonna hold her tight
Gonna grab some afternoon delight
My motto's always been when its right its right
Why wait until the middle of a cold dark night
Pretty much this.


On a slightly more serious note, I don't think I could describe it to you, people have been making art forever to try and convey it and if that doesn't work for you then I'm probably not going to have too much luck.
 

Darken12

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A temporary change in the levels of several different neurochemicals, some of which are still currently unknown.
 

Ringo_Plumen

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Interesting responses, can't add much as I'm basically in the same boat as OP (almost couldn't have put it more accurately myself), but definitely interesting.
 

Altorin

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It's different for each person and with each person. It's an undefinable.
 

silversnake4133

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You can't really describe love because it's something that you have to experience to actually know what it is. Trust me when I say that you will know when you've found the one that's right for you. In my opinion, people who can put an adjective or some descriptive word to what love is has only felt affection or lust, not love. In a way, when you experience honest to goodness love, almost nothing in the world can bother you when you're around your significant other. He or she makes you happy and content without even doing anything, and everything just feels right with the world.