This morning I got onto the Merriam-Webster website and used the online dictionary to look up the definition of the word love. The search came up with twenty-one different listings for the word love. The first and most basic definition wasstrong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties?. The hey word here beingpersonal?. In our society people tend to state that they love their dog, their mail carrier, and their pastor all with the same devotion as their significant other. Personally, I don't believe the word can really be defined, but rather, I categorize love into three different groups. The first kind of love being the love we share with our spouse or significant other. The second kind of love is the love that we share with our families. The third and final type of love is the love we feel for our close friends and life long relationships.
I think that when I hear people say they are in love, the kind of love that comes to mind is the passionate love shared by people who are in a sexual, long-term relationship. This is the most powerful and the most commonly heard use of the word. In my opinion, young people who are dating should not use love to describe their relationship. When it is used this way, it discounts the sacredness of relationships between people who are committed to a lifelong relationship together. I believe this is the most proper use of the word and the way it was originally intended to be used. Now, that is not to say that over time the word has not evolved into other perfectly acceptable alternative uses.
The next type of love for our family, especially for our parents. This is the love we have had since the day we were born. The love we have for our parents will continue to flourish until the day we die. We love our parents this way because they created us, raised us, and have helped us develop into the person we are today. This love usually extends to our sibling, they have been around for most of our lives and have shared in the growing process of our personalities as well.
What is Love? Love is affection. Love is sacrifice. Love is compromise. Love is faith. Love is believable and unbelievable. Love is destiny. Love is strength. Love is trust. Love is a desire with lust. Love is the world. Yeah, exactly what is love? Love is all about showing...
One might ask, "How is love expressed? Are there certain categories in which love falls? How do different people react to love?" Love is expressed through a variety of mediums. ... If everyone understood their love language, people would learn how to better love others. ...
Throughout history Love has been a topic of conversation. Plato's Symposium provides us with many different views and theories about Love. ... After describing history of Love, he proposes that each person is half of a complete love relationship, a whole. ... It is perfectly accepted having males seek Love with females; if no Love is found having males interacting with the females, so that by the mutual embraces of man and woman they might breed, and the race might continue. Or, equally so, if a man came to a man to seek Love; if Love is not found they might be satisfied and go about th...
Love is the desire for the soul. ... Confused from what love really is, they immediately attract on each other. ... Lastly, they liked the idea of love itself, rather than loving the person. ... Lastly, Romeo and Juliet loved the idea of "being in love"" instead of truly loving the actual person. ... It is clear that the type of "love"" that Romeo and Juliet are experiencing is nothing but lust and an illusion of what appears to be love. ...
"Sex without Love" by Sharon Olds, expresses her emotions against loveless sex as a hurtful and cold act. ... Sex with love leads to babys that are wanted. On the other hand sex without love can lead to unwanted babies that get given away. ... The figurative meaning of cardio could be love because the heart is a symbol of love. ... When referring to Sex Without Love, the topic of religion can be brought into the discussion. ...
Since many people fall into and out of love it is difficult to define what love actually is. ... He compares young people to being apprentices of love. ... I believe in most of what Rilke has to say about love. ... Rilke says that we need to learn how to love. ... How does one learn love without mistaking false love as truth? ...
Throughout this essay, I will be focusing on how love is presented through in Shakespeare's: Romeo and Juliet and how love is presented through a series of sonnets (18, 130 and 134). ... Throughout the play there is a constant theme of love and fate. ... 'Alas that love, whose view is muffled still. ... This also shows how ' first love' isn't always 'true love'. We can compare this type of love to that in Sonnet 130. ...
It is not love that affirms the bond of man's unity, but it is man's unity and his bonding which integrate love into man. ... Because of love, some of mankind's greatest histories have been recognized as infamous, but also some of mankind's greatest histories have also been recognized, all of them influenced by Love. Was it not the power of love which allowed the Israelites to unify against the Egyptians? Was it not the power of love which brought forth Helen from Sparta and the destruction of Troy? Was it not the power of love which made Buddha an enlightened sage? ...
This is a location of Love Canal. ... So what is the lesson of Love Canal? ... The Love Canal neighborhood is in the southeast section of the La Salle area of Niagara Falls, New York. ... Unusually heavy rain and snowfalls in 1975 and 1976 provided high ground-water levels in the Love Canal area. ... In 1978, the Department of Health learned that Love Canal chemicals had surfaced at the site. ...
