Your opinion or thought on Love?

[Kaytastrophe]

Do I believe in love?

Spoiler: Sit a while, and let me tell you a story.

There was a boy, no older than most when they first find interest in the opposite sex.

He spent most of his days by himself. Part of it was by choice. Part of it wasn't.

There was a girl, a bit younger than the boy.

She was a troubled spirit, free and yet simultaneously chained down, unable to overcome the hardships she faced by herself.

The two met one day.

No words were exchanged, at first. Just a locking of their eyes, and two small, shy smiles.

The pair found common ground, and began spending their time together, more and more each day as time passed.

As the days turned to months, it seemed like they were inseparable. Nothing would come between them, as long as they had each other.

And then the day came.

The girl's family moved away. She had to go with them.

It hit the boy like a sidewinder, revealed out of the blue. He couldn't understand it. Why did she need to leave?

The days turned bleak, after that. Darkness seemed a permanent fixture in the boy's mind, and his schoolmates noted that he seemed increasingly irritable and distracted.

He needed an outlet. Something to pour his heart and soul into now. He settled on a combination of music and literature, hoping it would fill the void left behind by her absence.

It did, for a time.

As the months passed, he could feel her sliding further into the back of his mind.

But fate was not so kind.

Two summers after she had left, the girl reappeared in the boy's life.

He was confused, understandably. When asked about her return, the girl replied that she wanted to see him again. The boy... could scarcely believe his ears. In a single instant, all of his thoughts, feelings, memories of her, came crashing back into his head. As much as he wanted to tell her that he didn't feel the same way... he couldn't formulate the words.

And so they spent the summer together, knowing that it would end in heartbreak and disappointment when the girl needed to leave again at the end of the summer. Despite that, the boy would recall that summer as being the best few months of his high school years.

As his final year of high school began, the boy found solace in the fond memories he would always have of his time with the girl. He was amicable, jovial even, a rock for his friends in their times of need. But he always knew, somewhere deep in his mind, that he would never forget the girl.

Months passed. The boy's family began falling apart. He graduated, but was left aimless by the situation an ailing father and an absent mother presented him with. He wanted a direction. He needed something, or someone, to guide him.

And so he went to the girl.

She had never forgotten him. She had always been there for him.

I'm not sure whether that answers your question or not, to be honest. But I hope it does.

That is one of the best posts I've read on here. Your story is really interesting and I truly enjoy your style of writing. I assume that girl is still in your life?

 

[Ranorak]

In all seriousness, being in love is nice.
And unless some exceptional sad things have happened to you, it's almost certain you recieved love from parents or siblings long before you found romantic love.

And especially that kind of love (which I guess is the type the OP meant) is wonderful.


I just HATE it when they place it too high on a pedestal in movies.
*risk your life for that woman you JUST met and are now in "love " with.
*jepardize your future and career for that ditzy girl that bounces on the sofa for fun and freedom?!
*breaking free of the magic spell, because love gave you a second wind.

Done to death!

 

[Hagi]

I do believe in love.

I do not believe in love at first sight, that's just misguided infatuation (which can grow into love, but that doesn't make it love). Infatuation takes you through countless emotional highs and lows, I don't think that's love.

Real love certainly isn't just always nice, it takes effort and work. But it's not something purely of the heart or emotional. It's also of the mind and rational. It's by definition not all-consuming but allows you to be yourself and be happy as such. It's something that slowly grows over the years (yes, years) and feels like it's always been there.

I believe in the love of old couples who can just sit together and be happy doing that.
I don't believe in the love of crazy young adults doing crazy stuff as seen on television.

 

[StormShaun]

I do in fact believe in love.
True love... maybe.

Well the funny thing is that I haven't had many relationships, well just one... I was young and naive and wanted to know what it felt like, but when I was with that girl it felt fake, everything did about that relationship... but one day a voice in my head said "End it" and so I did.

Sure I felt like crap afterwards but I got over it.

And the best part is that I still have hope that someday I will actually meet a girl which I will truly like and get together with. Sure it would be nice to have someone suitable to my preferences... but when a girl lights a fire in your heart... it's impossible to stop.

Sure the fire might go out to due whatever... but it can always be lit once more.

Bascially... I believe in love... truly love... hell why not?
But I have to find the right girl to set that flame alight first.

(I have been patent too... that is one hell of a virtue for love. Which I learned thanks to that relationship.)

 

[Queen Michael]

LOVE IS when a person feels like a beautiful melody.
LOVE ISN'T a beetle of the lucanus family that lives in holes in old trees and dead trunks and feeds on wood.

 

[Krantos]

I've been happily married for 5 years to a girl I've been with for 10 years.

So, I'd say thats a yes.

 

[immortalfrieza]

To me, love is when you are willing to give up everything you have, without exception or hesitation, for another person. Your own wants and needs are irrelevant next to those of the one you love. If you truly love someone, you exist for that person, and nothing can change that. If the person you love feels the same way about you, that's true love.

 

[Patrick Buck]

Yeah, I think it exists.
I'm sure it exists. I think I've been in it, or am in it. Seeing as I'm a teenager, and cynical, I could admit I may not be in it... just hormones and stuff, but still.

 

[shrekfan246]

Do I believe in love?

Spoiler: Sit a while, and let me tell you a story.

There was a boy, no older than most when they first find interest in the opposite sex.

He spent most of his days by himself. Part of it was by choice. Part of it wasn't.

There was a girl, a bit younger than the boy.

She was a troubled spirit, free and yet simultaneously chained down, unable to overcome the hardships she faced by herself.

The two met one day.

No words were exchanged, at first. Just a locking of their eyes, and two small, shy smiles.

The pair found common ground, and began spending their time together, more and more each day as time passed.

As the days turned to months, it seemed like they were inseparable. Nothing would come between them, as long as they had each other.

And then the day came.

The girl's family moved away. She had to go with them.

It hit the boy like a sidewinder, revealed out of the blue. He couldn't understand it. Why did she need to leave?

The days turned bleak, after that. Darkness seemed a permanent fixture in the boy's mind, and his schoolmates noted that he seemed increasingly irritable and distracted.

He needed an outlet. Something to pour his heart and soul into now. He settled on a combination of music and literature, hoping it would fill the void left behind by her absence.

It did, for a time.

As the months passed, he could feel her sliding further into the back of his mind.

But fate was not so kind.

Two summers after she had left, the girl reappeared in the boy's life.

He was confused, understandably. When asked about her return, the girl replied that she wanted to see him again. The boy... could scarcely believe his ears. In a single instant, all of his thoughts, feelings, memories of her, came crashing back into his head. As much as he wanted to tell her that he didn't feel the same way... he couldn't formulate the words.

And so they spent the summer together, knowing that it would end in heartbreak and disappointment when the girl needed to leave again at the end of the summer. Despite that, the boy would recall that summer as being the best few months of his high school years.

As his final year of high school began, the boy found solace in the fond memories he would always have of his time with the girl. He was amicable, jovial even, a rock for his friends in their times of need. But he always knew, somewhere deep in his mind, that he would never forget the girl.

Months passed. The boy's family began falling apart. He graduated, but was left aimless by the situation an ailing father and an absent mother presented him with. He wanted a direction. He needed something, or someone, to guide him.

And so he went to the girl.

She had never forgotten him. She had always been there for him.

I'm not sure whether that answers your question or not, to be honest. But I hope it does.

That is one of the best posts I've read on here. Your story is really interesting and I truly enjoy your style of writing. I assume that girl is still in your life?

Thank you. I probably could've expanded on it further, but I felt keeping it mostly simple would make for a better theme.

She is, though not in the way I'd like. We are once again separated by the distance necessitated from being near our respective families; I'm trying to help look after my father and she is currently living with her parents because she can't afford a place of her own. And her parents still live pretty far away from me.

I felt that bittersweet part was probably worth being left out, because where I stopped takes place about a year and a half ago.

 

[Keela]

Love is the strongest emotional bond we can have with another person, thing or idea. It is capable of leaving us broken when it doesn't work out, but it can also make us stronger and more complete than we could ever hope to be otherwise. But it certainly exists. Like most people, I hope I can find it some day. I am normally not a very emotional person, so I pray that I can find someone that I can bond with and trust on that level.

 

[janjotat]

I recently had a discussion with a girl in school. She didn't believe in it and I argued why is everyone obsessed with it if it didn't exist. Moral of the story love exists even if you haven't experienced it.

 

[trollnystan]

Romantic love? I've never experienced it but I hope it does. If nothing else I do believe in the love and affection one has for family and friends; romantic love is only a hop and a skip from that.

 

[Jamous]

Love is still a thing. It's down to brain chemistry, like all emotions. It's not necessarily forever, although some people will be in love until the both of them die. It's not necessarily requited. It can be utterly perverse, socially unacceptable and abhorrent to many around you. It's not necessarily sexual. It feels -excellent- and yet it can also make you feel awful. It can make one simultaneously incredibly selfless and selfish, which can put one in a fair few awkward situations. Not that I'd know anything about that. >_>
I've been in a stable relationship for three years now (three years tomorrow, in fact) and it's more or less just like an incredibly potent friendship. With sex. It's pretty neat.

One thing I find amusing is how high a standard people seem to hold love to. It's meant to be an immutable, eternal feeling that's perfect, love at first sight, they become your other half etc. etc. Whilst it does feel incredibly powerful (it's one of the most potent feelings I've personally experienced), it is simply not that simple. People change, so must their feelings, love at first sight is not a thing (lust at first sight is pretty cool though), and whilst they may certainly feel like your other half; you are no less whole without them. This post turned out a lot longer than I expected considering I was just going to say; "It's a thing."

 

[Toy Master Typhus]

So very edgy and angst filled. I'd say enjoy high school but with that post looking the way it does I'm not sure you will. Seriously though, could you be much more cynical? It doesn't make you look as wise and experienced as you think it does.

"Lol you only trying to sound cool, you must be in highschool"

You sound like your about five yourself. The thread is what does love mean to you as in everyone, people will have a different opinion, different experience. Just because my experience isn't as happy as your doesn't make it incorrect it just makes it an experience. You might find this hard to believe but someday you will divorce that wife of yours. That girl you always kinda liked in high school, probably gonna grow up and become a domestic abuse victim. Good happens but good doesn't happen to everyone.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

"Lol you only trying to sound cool, you must be in highschool"

You sound like your about five yourself. The thread is what does love mean to you as in everyone, people will have a different opinion, different experience. Just because my experience isn't as happy as your doesn't make it incorrect it just makes it an experience. You might find this hard to believe but someday you will divorce that wife of yours. That girl you always kinda liked in high school, probably gonna grow up and become a domestic abuse victim. Good happens but good doesn't happen to everyone.

You make it sound as though I have some semblance of game, so much so that I'll have a relationship, oh the hilarity. You have to admit you did just sound like an angsty teenager though, I was throwing in a good ol' piss take to lighten the mood at your expense.

 

[Little Woodsman]

I would say that I believe in love, but it is more accurate to say that I have faith in love

Spoiler: The difference between belief & faith

There is a tightrope walker with a rope spanning a chasm 30 meters wide and a hundred meters deep.
A crowd is watching him perform. First he walks the tightrope with a balance bar for aid--and the
crowd cheers enthusiastically. Then he walks the tightrope without a balance bar--the crowd cheers
with even more gusto. Then he rides a unicycle across the rope--the crowd cheers even more. Then he
rides the unicycle across while holding a chair in front of him--the crowd goes wild. Then he stops,
faces the crowd and asks "Do you think I can do it again, with someone sitting in the chair while I
hold it?" and the cheering & support from the crowd are deafening. Then he asks "OK, then who will
sit in the chair?", and the crowd falls silent.
That is the difference between belief & faith.

Probably the best definition I've heard for love is that it is when another person's
happiness/well being are more important to you than your own.
I had no idea what love was before I was a parent--now it's what keeps me going every day.

 

[Erttheking]

I'm a romantic, so I like to believe in deep and honest love, but sadly I haven't seen too much of it.

 

[hooblabla6262]

Though I am friendly and loving to all, there has only ever been one person who I genuinely liked and loved.
To me, she was perfect. We were bestfriends and lovers for nearly a quarter of my life.
I think about her everyday.

I still go on dates these days. I've even told a few girls that I loved them. But nobody has enticed me the way she did. Their flaws are so glaringly obvious to me. The overwhelming sense of want and need is gone.

There is a drug I chase. One which produces the same bonding effect in the brain as love. Nearly impossible to find where I live. What I would give for that feeling again.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I am a hopeless romantic- I certainly believe in love, it's one of the few things that I let really get to me. The problem is that not everyone will do the same (I got dumped fairly recently). When you fall in love with someone you become vulnerable, I'm not sure how I would go about trusting someone enough to let myself fall in love again any time soon.