What is love?

[sarahshasu]

Hey guys and girls, as a teenager I'm confused and new at this love thing.

I think I'm in love because that's the only word I have to describe it but people keep telling me I don't know what love is because I'm to young.

Sometimes I wish people would just tell me what it is and let me decide for myself if it's love or not.

So can some seasoned advisers tell me what love is?

Thanks in advance for the help.

[Marcie]

First off, I want to say welcome to VT, I see that you are new.

This is what I think Love is:
" Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (English Standard Version)

That is what Love is.

[pageplant77]

Love is that feeling that you get in your stomach and heart when you are with or even think about another girl/guy. It's when you know that you want nothing more to be with that someone for the rest of your life. Love is the most beautiful thing in the world.

Just don't confuse love with lust(sexual desire)

[2D]

“To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess” - Henry Louis Mencken

[Aspiringanonymous]

What is 'love'? Similarly, what is 'crush'? How does one objectively distinguish between one versus the other, if reducing an often unexplainable inner phenomena to mere words is even fully possible?

With maturity, one learns to balance impulsive emotions with various rational considerations.

With time, as the central motivator in a relationship becomes much less about curiosity, excitement, and the euphoria typically associated with 'infatuation', a different kind of feeling takes it place - of companionship, inspiration, and shared visions. This, if I have been understanding correctly, is what most defines as 'true love'.

It is valued significantly more so than infatuation, because the connection here runs much deeper and solid than its forerunner. This I believe, as previously mentioned, is the result of a bond based equally on both emotion and intellect. For, while one's values and beliefs do not easily change, emotions are inherently unstable and prone to unexpected fluctuation.From a prior thread; my apparently-successful attempt in deciphering mainstream world views.

And, definitely, what the above poster said. Perpetual anesthesia.

[Katrina]

Love is patient, love is kind. It has no envy, nor it boasts itself and it is never proud. It rejoices over the evil and is the truth seeker. Love protects; preserves and hopes for the positive aspect of life. Always stand steadfast in love, not fall into it. It is like the dream of your matter of affection coming true.
Love can occur between two or more individuals. It bonds them and connects them in a unified link of trust, intimacy and interdependence. It enhances the relationship and comforts the soul. Love should be experienced and not just felt. The depth of love can not be measured. Look at the relationship between a mother and a child. The mother loves the child unconditionally and it can not be measured at all. A different dimension can be attained between any relationships with the magic of love. Love can be created. You just need to focus on the goodness of the other person. If this can be done easily, then you can also love easily. And remember we all have some positive aspect in us, no matter how bad our deeds maybe. And as God said Love all

[Magus]

This my perspective about love.

Love is a delusion, love is the cloak of truth. There is no such thing as love, love is just made up. We depend on each other, then that's not love. No parental love, no friend love and no relation love, they are all fake and untrue.

Love is nothing but a hallow made up word.

Love is not commitment, love is not truth and love is not reality. Love is fake, I don't believe in love.

Love hurts, is something that cause harm is kind?

We need to feed on our brethren flesh to live, we need our parents to finish off our needs, we need partners to fend our raging self. That's not love, there was never love in this existence.

[Watchfulness]

Love is not necessary.

[soccer8]

trust me youll know when your love cause you will always be thinking of that person and be embarassed when your in eye contact when you look at them or sometimes it can hert to see them

[Magus]

trust me youll know when your love cause you will always be thinking of that person and be embarassed when your in eye contact when you look at them or sometimes it can hert to see them

That's not love; love is fake. That's the process of excreting hormones.

[Aspiringanonymous]

Ah, but if one wishes to believe that the process of excreting hormones is important and valuable, then so be it. I've come more or less to understand the word 'love' to mean this much, as it is the most prevalent interpretation - that is why I refrain from using the word at all times, when describing my own experiences. Because I do not share the same belief that an experience founded upon significant loss of rationality is valuable.

Each to their own, however. Follow the path which suits oneself the best.

[GoldenSnitch]

When you would give something up tod someone