What is LOVE?

Love is the one thing in life that man strives for the most, and is also generally the most difficult to find. I believe that the purpose of true love revolves around personal growth. Through the practice of loving someone, we can therefore become a more loving person.

I don’t know if I have ever been in love, which is probably a good indication that I haven’t. According to all the advice columns in the newspaper, when you are in love, you know it. I am always coming across these testimonies of love, of people proclaiming the beauty, and purity, and unconditional nature of their love. However, I often wonder if these ideal proclamations aren’t elaborated, as they often appear to me as highly convoluted. It mystifies me that one can be so certain of their love in a relationship despite how incredibly easy it is to fall out of love.

I wish that I had more faith, but I have trouble believing in this idealistic unconditional love. I know that a single stolen kiss can change a relationship. In that single moment, the honesty and the integrity are broken. How can someone then possess such perpetual conviction in such an unstable thing as love? I know that human nature is fallible, and that is why I have such little faith. However, I honestly believe that once I do fall in love, I will be able to understand the true dynamics of unconditional love, which are able to hold together relationships in our imperfect world. Until, I intend on keeping my cynical views towards love, and revel in my ignorance