Chapter Four: Tellings From the Heart
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
~Aristotle~
When I asked a peer of mine what their definition of love was, this is what her response, "True love is something between two people where you can do anything together and have no cares in the world. It's trusting another person with your heart." I asked her if she had ever been in love, and her quick reply was, "No. I'm too young to have experienced true love."
I looked up 'love' on www.dictionary.com, a popular website for definitions. It said it had nine definitions. The closest one I found to my views is this, "A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance."
I asked another person to define what love is, they replied, "When you cant feel for anybody else, they way you do about that one person you care about them and would take a bullet for them." I thanked them, and he asked me why I had asked. I smiled and said, "Because I writing something on love." And we left our conversation at that.
My friend and I discussed briefly my quest to define and explain love. She commented on how cheesy the elements of love seem when investigated individually. The only colleague of mine that is in a relationship defined love as being, "An ultimate obsession with someone." Personally, I think love is not being able to live life normally without a person. It's not being able to see tomorrow without them. Love is giving the gift of your heart and soul, and receiving theirs in return.
When asking a close friend of mine to define love, he believed, "Love is a very powerful and compelling emotion felt by two people." I asked a few more colleagues of mine what they thought love is, and the uncertainty in their responses compelled me not to include them. I continued my conversations by asking them if they had ever been in love, the responses did not surprise me. I received a unanimous, "No." Quickly the conversation topic changed.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
~Aristotle~
When I asked a peer of mine what their definition of love was, this is what her response, "True love is something between two people where you can do anything together and have no cares in the world. It's trusting another person with your heart." I asked her if she had ever been in love, and her quick reply was, "No. I'm too young to have experienced true love."
I looked up 'love' on www.dictionary.com, a popular website for definitions. It said it had nine definitions. The closest one I found to my views is this, "A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance."
I asked another person to define what love is, they replied, "When you cant feel for anybody else, they way you do about that one person you care about them and would take a bullet for them." I thanked them, and he asked me why I had asked. I smiled and said, "Because I writing something on love." And we left our conversation at that.
My friend and I discussed briefly my quest to define and explain love. She commented on how cheesy the elements of love seem when investigated individually. The only colleague of mine that is in a relationship defined love as being, "An ultimate obsession with someone." Personally, I think love is not being able to live life normally without a person. It's not being able to see tomorrow without them. Love is giving the gift of your heart and soul, and receiving theirs in return.
When asking a close friend of mine to define love, he believed, "Love is a very powerful and compelling emotion felt by two people." I asked a few more colleagues of mine what they thought love is, and the uncertainty in their responses compelled me not to include them. I continued my conversations by asking them if they had ever been in love, the responses did not surprise me. I received a unanimous, "No." Quickly the conversation topic changed.