Love... Or how I see it.

I believe that Aristophanes’s explanation of us being "separated" from our other half, then having to search for them is right metaphorically. We are here searching for our “other half”; the one person who completes us. Love is something you can experience over and over, but finding your soul mate, or your “other half” is something that will only happen once in a lifetime. It is something greater than just chemical interactions in our body. If it were just that, we’d be able to explain love and put it into words that is felt by everyone. But in reality, love is felt different by each human being. We begin to feel more complete because you know that no matter what happens to you, no matter if you fail or succeed, no matter what, this person – your other half – is going to be there with you until the end. Just because we are committed to one person doesn’t mean we have to exactly give up our independence completely. Love is an unselfish act – you have to give up to receive.
Love inspires us because it brings out something in us that no other emotion can. To some people, it may make their lives brighter and happier, so they begin to see things in a different way. It can also bring people down because they would be in love with someone and not have the feelings returned. Or you may love, fall in love, and then have your heart broken. But I believe that “it is better to have loved and lost than to not love at all”. Love is more helpful than harmful because love doesn’t always fail. True love doesn’t fail, at least. Love brings out the best in us, in most cases.
I think that the feeling of security allows us to drop our guard to other people. Sometimes, that feeling of security keeps us coming back to the person that we feel secure with. We know their ways, how they act, and how they will react to certain things. In simple terms, we know them just as well as we know ourselves. That feeling of security that we've grown with that person will keep us holding on for that small bit of hope that we still may have for that person. When we become comfortable with a person, we learn more about them and the way they are. Love makes people feel happy and safe, and in most cases it is the most amazing feeling that you can ever feel. Just the happiness of that overwhelms you and allows you to let your guard down and only to hope for the best. We all want to love and be loved and that is just a risk we have to take sometimes.
We dare to love because all we want and need is love, just like The Beatles said. Friendship can’t satisfy love because love offers so much more than friendship. Not only is it having a best friend, but it’s having someone that knows every inch of you, inside and out, and knows everything about you, both flaws and perfection’s, but still loves you. You can go home and tell your friends how your day went, but there is nothing like going home to the person that you love and telling them about your day. It’s completely different than telling a friend. It’s every person’s dream to fall in love and meet your soul mate and live happily ever after. I know it’s mine. Love is something that you can’t buy in stores or learn from a book. It’s something that you find on your own and learn all by yourself. There is no rules or guidelines to help you. People long for money and to get into their college of choice, but you can work for those things and get them from a good job or studying hard. But love, something that every person wants, is something that you can’t get from a book or from a job, making it totally different than other desires and ambitions for human beings.
We love. It's human nature to love. We may love our friends or our family or reading or our favorite band. But that's a total different love than loving someone else. It's a totally different love than giving your heart and soul to another person and trusting them with it. You give someone your everything and hope and pray to God that they accept it and want you back. To give someone that and to receive it in return... it only happens once. You can love another person many, many times. But finding that love.. that amazing-can't-live-without-you-you're-the-only-one-for-me love... that only happens once. When that happens, grasp it. Don't let it get away.