Love is touching fire without burning yourself. Love is being addicted to the attention. Love is a habit. It is being willing to give your life for your sister. Love is a battlefield. Love is being safe in a burning room. Love is sunshine at night. Love is a beautiful flower in the dark. Love is being there eventhough you're not. Love is accepting. Love is moving on. Love is having hope. Love is hearing your grandpa say he can't fight anymore and still staying strong. Love is smiling even though you want to cry. It is letting out what you have hidden for so long. Love is saying 'Yes'.
But most of all love is undefinable.
What is love? Does love even exist? Where does one feeling end and another feeling start? Why can we say we hate "him" after all he did? Isn't it because we love him. Doesn't it hurt just because we don't hate him at all? Where does the first excitement end and the habit of not being able to live without someone else start? Is that love or is it being addicted to some sort of feeling someone else gives us? Is it really love to fight for someone even though they just can't do it anymore? Is it love to force someone to be with us or isn't it rather love to accept their decision? Is it love when your heart drops when you see him or is that just nervosity? Do we really want the love or do we just love the attention? Why can we get over someone? Is it love when we are able to get over that one person?
And why is it that most love songs are rather sad and depressing than happy ? Isn't love somehow that feeling that makes your eyes sparkle, your heart beating faster so that you feel that warm feeling all over your body and just wanna scream because you are full of joy? How is it possible that there are so many sad love songs ? Shouldn't people who feel this overwhelming feeling be happy, no matter what?
Yes, I think love is the hidden sunshine deep inside you and if you look for it you can find it EVERYWHERE!
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Some of my favorite love songs are sad. Some great questions here. My favorite line: love is being safe in a burning room. It makes me think of John Mayer's song: Slow dancing in a burning room...which is a little different.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Nelson, that was actually one of my favorite lines as well. I also like touching a fire without burning yourself. It creates a good mental image for me. I really like this whole thing... At one point I thought the questions dragged on a little long, but then I realized that each question you asked was significant and important and had meaning to you. It made it more meaningful.
ReplyDeleteReally liked how you started with the metaphors of love, which were really good. I liked how you had some cliche ones, like love is a battlefield, and some really obscure ones, like beautiful flower in the dark. And then you went on this absolute tear about love and you brought up some great questions. And it ended happy, the way love should be.
ReplyDeleteI like how varied your post was, it was different but it felt whole too.
ReplyDeleteI love how you ask the question of where love begins rather than other emotion, the borderline of love if you will. It's got me thinking.
Pleasant read :D Keep it up.