Have you ever said you love someone? Do you know what exactly defines Love? In this world of seven billion people, I am certain that everyone has their own interpretation of what loving a person means to them. Love, determined by a dictionary, “is a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person; a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection”, as for an individual (“Love”, n.d.). I believe almost everyone has verbally or non-verbally indicated his or her love for a person, whether it is for a romantic partner, kin, and/or a friend. For most people, their way of expressing love is by saying “I love you”. However, how does one perceive this love for someone? Personally, I feel that love is conceptualized by thoughts and behavior towards the individual, rather than mere words. Therefore, in my opinion, to exhibit that your love for someone, is to respect the other party, to embrace him/her entirely, and to provide him/her services when appropriate.
Firstly, love is respecting the other party. Respecting someone means feeling and showing a person his or her worth or excellence as an individual (“Respect”, n.d.)
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Most people tend to overvalue positive attributions of a person and undervalue his/her flaws as it signals them to reduce the love they feel for a person, explicating the phenomenon known as the Halo effect. This has an interconnection with infatuation, a sense of overwhelming but foolish passion and liking for a single, which habitually, is confused with love. In a nutshell, one should not say that he/she loves a person for the positive traits alone because he/she did not embrace the flaws of this person by compromising or accepting as they are. Patrick Rothfuss, a successful American author of The Wise Man's Fear, a book listed as number one on the New York Times Bestseller list in 2011, professed