To me, love is an elusive concept. Love is more than lust and more than simply caring for someone. Love is seeing past the minor imperfections and accepting the ones that can't be changed. The love of the story books is something to be sought and once found, treasured.
I'm not sure of the exact definition for love, or even if there is any working definition that can be used to describe everything. From the way anything seems possible when you are together, the confidence placed in one another, the shared desires and the union of body, heart, and soul.
With such a fascination culturally on love, why is it that so many relationships are not based on it? America has moved past the arranged marriage stage, with perhaps a few minority exceptions to be fair. People marry for money, for convenience, for the prestige, for sheer lust that eventually fades leading to divorce court and all the headaches that follow. Sadly ironic that the romance of marriage and relationships is being choked by American's first love...money.
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I never found a love that would love me back before. But I always thought it would be something great. When I see a couple holding hands, I envy them so much because I want to have someone who will love me like that too. Then I see a couple breaking up, then I say...if I ever have a special someone...I'd treat that person better. I'll make sure that special someone wouldn't get bored with me. Perhaps that's why I'm so picky when it comes to relationship. I can tell which kind of people I can or cannot get along with. Sigh. It's okay though I'm only 17. I'm not going to rush. It does, however, feel lonely as hell.
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I think love of money is not the main problem; it's love of oneself. People marry more all those other reasons to further themselves, And of course there are plenty of people who marry for love and just as quickly fall out of love.
~ElegantFree~
Thats true. It isn't just a love of money either. You aren't going to have a stable of a relationship if you can barely afford to pay the bills, anyway.
I still prefer storybook love. Boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy and girl get rid of all the obstacles at once, boy and girl get married and live happily ever after. Kind of unrealistic I guess, but there are worse things to hope for.
Love is this special bond, something in fairy tales. But the only problem is that no one in todays world believes in fairytales anymore. If they did maybe they would look for true love and not some thing for a certain purpose. Love is something that is undescribable, something that is so hard to find in this world now a days. But if its found, really found, must it never be let go.