What is Love?

Teenagers wash the meaning of love away

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By Amanda Sutts
February 7, 2010
Filed under Opinion & Editorial

According to Webster’s dictionary, love is defined as “strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties.” However, teenagers seem to have completely defaced the meaning of the term love.

Many high school students throw the word around in their everyday lives: “I don’t love him anymore. I love that guy over there!”

Just the way the word love is casually used proves incorrect. When you love someone it doesn’t simply mean that you like them a lot. To really love someone means to care about them more than you care about yourself. When you really do love someone, you would do anything for them.

Most people question if they love someone. If you ask yourself “Do I love him?” then you probably don’t love that person. You will always know for a fact when you love someone. You usually feel when you love someone; if they make your whole day better, they make you feel things that you have never felt before, or you suddenly realize that you have no idea what your life would be like without them and you don’t want to find out.

Being “in love” with someone is completely different than just to “love” someone. When you are in love with someone you would do anything for them. When you are in love with someone that means that you accept and embrace them for who they are and everything they could be. This means that even if they are obsessed with cars and every conversation involves cars in some way, shape or form, you still listen and don’t ignore them.  Even if they are always making fun of your laugh because you sound like a guinea pig, you still love them; no matter what. Being in love is when you will always support each other through anything and everything.

You know you are in love when each kiss takes your breath away. You will always want to be with them or near them all the time. You will never want to be apart.

When you “love” someone, you will always care about them. You will end up caring about your special person more than you care about your own self. So before you tell someone that you love them or even realize that you are in love with your special somebody, make sure it’s real before anything happens. Don’t tell someone you love them just because they told you first, it’s not an obligation. It’s a privilege.