What is Love?

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Love, Love, Love. We all think about it, dream about it, sing about it, and even lose sleep worrying about it, but why? Love is such a small word paired with a vital meaning. It’s universal, easy to spell, difficult to define, but impossible to live without. When we don’t have it, we search for it, when we find it, we don’t know what to do with it, when we have it, we fear losing it. Love is the constant source of happiness and sorrow. I am young and I haven't a clue as to what love is, let alone what falling in love is. However, I have my ideas of what love is like. I have never witnessed the beauty of people falling in love, or the severity of those falling out of love, so what is love?

Love in general could be frightening. Some people run from it, they put up walls so that way people cannot enter their hearts. Others are drawn in, they offer their heart on a silver platter hoping no one dares to break it. Love is a feeling for another person so pure, so deep that no one can define it to its true extent. It is what one feels for another without any kind of physical or mental ba...

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