Love is a word, used far too often for the wrong reasons, people wanting to love, hoping they do, believing that that school fling is real love. A word, nothing more. What matters is the emotion the word implies, the way we feel is real, love, a word, will never be real, except in the minds of the hopeful and hopeless. Once the connection is made every cloud has a silver lining, nothing can go wrong, nothing matters but the 'love' two people share. Therefore it would seem that love is bliss, wonderful, at least perfect. Only to the ignorant and those who hope for a world that will never exist. 'Love' provides a greater feeling than any other can possibly hope to achieve, but to lose that love, to lose grip on that connection, is unbearable. To lose the emotion is to lose yourself, the loss of this emotion makes death by any means seem like a relaxing get away, get away from the rotting courpse your heart has become. Many have died because of 'love', or at least claim to. 'LOVE', something that will never be real, people claim to kill themselves for love? If he kills himself for her, and she kills herself for him, do they really die for love, for each other, or simply die for themselves ? who knows such things ? No one can die for love, because there are always others that love you, to kill yourself for what you think may be love is to kill love itself, one can not die for love, only for selfishness and oneself. He who created the word love may just as well have created an endless cloud of piercing needles overlapping the putrid Earth's skies. I'm only 16, I think the emotion called 'love' is the greatest thing there will ever be, unmatched by anything. At the same time i resent it, for I know that everything with a beignning has an end, and the end of that emotion is the one, the only end i fear. In my opinion 'love', 'Hope' and 'Dreams' are exactly the same thing, they put images in our head, blissful images that we almost create as our reality, all three guide us and make us feel like we have something to live for, but Dreams end; we wake up, Hope fades; we lose sight of what was hoped for, Love dies; though it may never have even been there it still seems to die and take anyone holding onto it with it.

Sheesh sorry that was so long! Guess I had a bit to say. Hope someone managed to read it all! Thanks

Love does exist, but it is the most selfish emotion one can feel (in the majority of cases). You basically feel so strongly for someone that you want to remove them from their life and incorporate them into yours. They have to make sacrifices and compromises because of your feelings. You dictate to them and in essence, combine your lives.

Love exists, but one has to hold that feeling close - you can end up ruining someone's life and making them make choices they don't want to make, just because you love them.

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

1 Corinthians 13

1. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, [1] but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

-Neeg

i think love doesn't exist. i think there isn't a love for everyone i mean it may be real but i seriously think that love really doesn't exist. for example romeo and juliette? they were more or less after rebellion. not love i don't believe love is even real i have never felt it.the only thing i have felt my whole life is dislike or hate or pain.

To say that you love someone isn't really an emotion. To say (and mean) that you love something is to say that you would devote yourself in some way - even a minor way - to something. Reegardless of the insentive love exists. I do belive it is foolish to say you love someone you have only just met, however you can devote yourself. However on an emotional standpoint, some people justify their choice to devote themsleves with the emotions that this person or thing instills in them - xrachx, very real emotions that you sadly seem to have been depraved of or deny that you have ever felt. My apologies but you should be more open minded and try to understand why some people need to justify their emotion. Perhaps you can feel these emotions and not be afraid to admit it.

From your question and comments, I'm guessing you are very young, XrachX, and perhaps have not had a particularly nurturing environment. It is very sad that all you have ever felt so far in life, is pain and hate.

Love does exist. It isn't some magical, mystical thing. It is a very human emotion, and when you feel it, you know it. It varies considerably from person to person, and depending on the relationship. The love of a parent for a child is different than the love between an adult man and woman. The love you have for a pet is not the same as how you feel about a close friend. It is a matter of degree and intensity and personality.

Love can make you very happy and it can also be the source of great sadness. It can be a wonderful thing, or it can be stifling and possessive. There is a whole continuum of love in varying degrees.

My wish for you is that you eventually find love of the kind that will make you smile and feel good about yourself and others.

I don't agree entirely with the comment that only love for christ is unconditional, I think the love for your child/children is unconditional and I think most would agree with me. As for romantic love, I do believe it exists, but rare to find. I also think that love like that does not always last forever, and when one does find it, and wants to keep it, then they should work hard at maintaining it. Romanee

no. i don't believe the word "love" means anything because if you truly feel that feeling that they call love there shoulden't be any words to dicribe it. the word is just a way to sum the feeling up but it can't really explain how you feel

Love makes your soul happy and completes you as a person. If you meet your soulmate then you'll know what I mean. You never really feel complete in this world until you meet your soulmate. I believe there's a soulmate reeserved out there for everyone. It's a big world and maybe you won't meet them in this life, but you'll find them eventually and then you'll know the feeling I'm talking about straight away. The only way I can describe a soulmate is someone who is not another person, they are you and you are them. You act like you are one whole being rather than 2 seperate souls. You fit together like 2 halves of a circle. One half needs the other half to function fully. You have a deep connection and both halves can often read each other's minds and feel each other's emotions. Upon meeting for the first time, both halves pull together like a magnet. It will make sense when this happens. Or if it's happened to you, you will know what I am waffling on about.