Compare And Contrast Love And Lust

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Love can enhance the way one may live, but lust can destroy the way one lived. By understanding what love is as well as lusty intentions towards how one may approach life it could shift. Try picturing the future some may have visions of happiness, success, and even dreams that become a reality. Happiness and success are different for everyone, however, the reason why one may want what they want is led by two things. Love or lust which are feelings that can be easily mixed up. Someone who chooses to know the difference their life will change. Love is a value I live by and will always choose it over lust any day. Love will not hurt anyone, but lust can. Lust defined in the dictionary states that “it’s passionate but in a way of wishing for something. That …show more content…

This misconception is so dangerous, that some people will date abusive people because they “love them” but love would not hurt oneself, but lust and insecurities combined allow the misconception to create a fictive reality of what is actually happening. Love isn’t about finding your other half it is about experiencing your other whole. Love does not hold you back it keeps you going forward and that’s what makes it beautiful. An everlasting feeling that should make one feel safe either with oneself or someone else. It is consistent, while lust is like a drug. Metaphorically let’s pretend lust is a high and just like any drug addict lust (drug) causes one to crave it, but once the high is over you crash which causes you to feel less. That low causes one to withdraw from themselves. They might not understand the truth of what it is because of the fact now they’re just chasing that high. I will add though one will never experience what love is unless they experience lust because without seeing what one does not want they will never know what they do. Just do not become

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