This Messy Thing Called "LOVE"

@flapiz (23151)
United Kingdom
January 6, 2012 4:12am CST
Well everytime I hear the word "LOVE" I can't help but sigh. You know why? Well, first thing is it doesn't even have a clear and detailed meaning or definition. It also is hard to identify and often confused with "CRUSH", "ADMIRATION", "AFFECTION", "INFATUATION", and even "PITY". There are also times when people can't distinguish between friendly love and romantic love. But what troubles me most is how "LOVE" can't be LOGICAL and why people(or in my case, why I) fall in love with those who can't love me or won't love me back? Or why can't we just fall in love to those who loves us too? GOSH! It really gives me headache when I try to comprehend and dissect it. Maybe if things were that way, a lot of people will be saved from the drama and heartaches. But then I can't help but wonder too. If love was that easy, If love was painless... WOULD it be as beautiful? Share your views, opinions, experience. It's almost valentines. LOL. I need enlightenment. Haha.
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• Nairobi, Kenya
22 Apr 22
I don't have anything to say about that am not an expert in this part.
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@flapiz (23151)
• United Kingdom
23 Apr 22
Not even the platonic kind of love?
• Nairobi, Kenya
23 Apr 22
@flapiz what do you mean by platonic love?
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• Nairobi, Kenya
24 Apr 22
@flapiz Oooh you mean like the love you can have for your family members.
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@jennyze (7028)
• Indonesia
13 Jan 12
From back then they say that what the brain thinks is different to what the heart feels, that's why love cannot be defined nor dictated into a certain direction. Moreover, when it is related to what heart feels, who would really know what is the heart? No one knows. It will prove to be just a crush, infatuation, attraction or pity later on when the heart does not feel those giddy thing similar to love.
@jennyze (7028)
• Indonesia
16 Jan 12
Well, you could start by dressing as the heroin in the drama, and let's see if it will make you giddy... I know it always works for me...
@flapiz (23151)
• United Kingdom
17 Jan 12
Hahaha. You are so hilarious! But well I'd definitely try that. I think it's time for me to do some shopping. Hahah. Anyway valentines is still 3 weeks away. Maybe I can attract some giddy spirit. lol.
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@flapiz (23151)
• United Kingdom
13 Jan 12
Well you're right nobody knows the heart. It's really a strange, weird, and mysterious organ. Hahaha.. I wish I could experience those GIDDY feelings sometimes. I think I need a little spark in my life. It's so monotonous these days. In short I feel so uninspired.
@thanks1961 (7035)
• India
6 Jan 12
This is the reason why this is getting exploited. Everyone take this word in their own way - with a wide meaning behind it. It is like a the water mixed clay - we can make it with God & Demon. Only difference is who is handling with it. In fact it is better to NOT have have clear meaning for it. So that we can play around with it. However, those who really know the maning and find out the essence of the word LOVE, I am sure that they will really enjoy and might have exprience or understood what it really means. But those who can't, we are helpless..... Regards
@flapiz (23151)
• United Kingdom
6 Jan 12
Well I like the comparison you've made about love being like God and Demon. It is an ambivalent feeling. We can't really tell if love will make us or break us. And yes it's very true that since love has no definite meaning we tend to play around with it and like every plays we don't know what the end is. We may end up victorious and happy, we may end up as a loser-sad and broke. LoL. Sometimes we end up cheating or cheated. Well somehow I think I'm one of those helpless ones. But I hope someday I'll discover the secret behind love.
• India
6 Jan 12
Hi, You said it! A little bit of compramise, between each other make love more stronger and firm. It is my experience. Now, we are in the middle of aboundance and having a lot of choices. I still feel that it is the time to redefine the meaning of most of the words and its feeling behind it. You said, the words cheating and cheated. I really got the meaning. When we are chating, at the same time we are gaining also, when we feel that we are cheated, we get inspiratiion to cheat as well. So, all are inter linked and I feel that enjoy the life how it is, regardless of what is being already said about. I feel life is good only when I think in such a way that feel the life how it is. If you want to love someone, love the way you like. All want to enjoy life, while doing it, it will hurt someone elese differently. So, no commitments to anyone, and keep living by loving and we got few fraction of seconds as life, and it is to be enjoyed and not to cry and weep. Good day & cheers, Thank-s
@flapiz (23151)
• United Kingdom
6 Jan 12
Well I was struck by what you said that when we feel cheated we get the inspiration to cheat and that everything is interlinked. It's like Newton's Law of Motion, the Law of Action and Reaction. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Thanks for the very long and inspiring insight.
• Malaysia
7 Jan 12
If you ask me "flapiz", Love is the only thing worth living for. The whole universe centres around love. From my small personal experience I can only tell you that its the best feeling I have ever had in my life. It can pull you out of any despair pits. It defines your existence, gives meaning to your life and enables you to survive and make space for your self in this throat cutting, fast passing world. Its the most beautiful and pious feeling I have ever had.
@flapiz (23151)
• United Kingdom
7 Jan 12
Well the way you describe it is very BEAUTIFUL. All I can say is that you're one lucky guy to have found that special love. I hope someday I will get to experience such feeling too.
@Bamboee (645)
• United Arab Emirates
6 Jan 12
I believe my friend, that if love is suppose to be beautiful and not painful. Pain is all around us, Love is the only thing that brings ease to the pain.. Love should hold pain.. But unfortunately that is what always happens.. Fall in love - broken heart - loose everything in life! I always believed love was greater than all emotions.. It could conquer hatred no matter what.. it could change the worst of people.. But giving so much love.. I failed.. got nothing but misery from my husband.. and still loving him, haven't stopped for a second.. but gained no peace, no care, no warmth.. Just cold and blue nights, tears and darkness.. Love - it can never be explained!
@flapiz (23151)
• United Kingdom
7 Jan 12
Well I think love is as you say it supposed to be beautiful. It is indeed beautiful, but what makes it painful sometimes is because people tend to MISUSE it or sometimes it's painful because we don't get back what we thought we deserve.Love being unbalance therefore causes pains. I feel sad about you and your husband. I'm really sorry to hear that. I hope you could patch it up though. Maybe your love and patience will eventually change him.
@Bamboee (645)
• United Arab Emirates
7 Jan 12
Thank you my friend.. Your right that painful part is when people take advantage of it, misuse it, mistreat it and most of all misunderstand it. They think that they will get away by doing whatever they wish.. but its not true, God is watching and what you seed is what you grow.. Its a saying at my house... If you seed in good you will receive a beautiful fruit out of it.. But if you seed in bad then you will pay for it, because you will not get anything out of it! :).. That is why I keep seeding in good... no matter what! Because I know, that one day I will get the good fruit!
@Irenefm (25)
• Philippines
1 Feb 12
Love maybe does jot have the right meaning. Meaning comes differently to every people. Maybe you'll know the meaning when you are really in love. They say love is blind, and yes it is. That is why love maybe is stupid sometimes. But the true meaning of it may come differently to whoever feels it and how they look to it. For me maybe I cannot define love for you or neither anyone else. You just feel it in a strange manner that you cannot understand.
@flapiz (23151)
• United Kingdom
2 Feb 12
Well yes love is subjective and how we define it varies one how we experience it. But I don't think love is blind.... It just doesn't mind. In other words,If you love someone you see all his or her flaws and negatives but you still accept him or her anyway.
@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
6 Jan 12
Yes love sure is complicated, I think people have been trying to figure it all out for centuries but to no avail. I think people want it so bad sometimes they think they are in love when they really aren't it is just the want.
@flapiz (23151)
• United Kingdom
6 Jan 12
Yes you're right. I think I've heard a phrase somewhere which says: Loving the idea of being in love. I think that is exactly what you are saying? I can't help but question: Am I really in love or as what you were saying, I just love the idea of being in love. LOL. Thank you for your view.
• United States
6 Jan 12
Love is never logical but I don't know if pain should be associated with love. Love is never perfect but an understanding of two people who know they cannot be without each other. Two people that thing of their future and growing old together. Two people who can't live without each other. I believe there is someone out there for each person. So don't settle for drama and heartaches that is not love. Sometimes we look for long in all the wrong places and we wanted so much that we choose a person that is really not our match and we try to turn them into what we want. I have heard that love comes to u when u least expected so enjoy life every minute of it and when u meet that person u will be able to experience what true Love really is.
@flapiz (23151)
• United Kingdom
7 Jan 12
WOW! That is very nicely said. Well I've always believed that there's someone out there for me. The thing is I get so impatient sometimes and end up grabbing just anyone. Or like someone had said I am in love of the idea of being in love that I end up confusing crushes, infatuation, and admiration with love. Now I have decided to wait a little more patiently. Thank you Ivonne. Your reply is very inspiring.