Someone asked me one day what love is, this caught me, I didn’t have the answer then. Back home I was thinking about the true meaning and how being in love felt. Because for me, I just knew the meaning of love, I could just sense it in my heart. Then I started to write about what is the true meaning? What words could define love, what does God say about love in the bible. Here it is: Love is simply caring for one another, showing that other person that they count for you, just be there whenever the other needs you, respect the other people in any way, accept the person for who he is, overlook the bad qualities, but love the good qualities. As Anais Nin states in her book Wisdom of love, that what is love but acceptance of the other for whoever he is. Love is also a gentle touch on their faces; shows adoration, attraction, a sign of acceptance. Just being with that person, laugh together at stupid things, talking about anything, connected emotionally, feeling that whenever they are not here you …show more content…
Also, Agatha Christie said, it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. Looking at them or gazing at them while they are doing busy doing something else. My favorite one is from James Baldwin, he said "Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up stage "(The Price of the Ticket: Collected Non-fiction, 1948-1985) which means, that love happens just like that we really don't know how, but here it is. Consequently, love cannot be easily ignored, whatever you do, it will find its way back. As E. M. Forster said you can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you, love is eternal. Love is something that comes naturally even to the unemotional