Love.

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What is it? What does it mean? How does it feel to you?

I refer to love in all contexts; love of friends, love of family, love of significant others.

I'm curious to see how other people perceive it.

It feels like your chest has been filled to bursting with the softest of down feathers, making your insides warm and tickley. And sometimes the feathers catch fire.

A really chessy 90's dance song by Haddway

Love is the purest form of spiritual energy and it feels like "deep caring" to me.

Love will keep us together and negative energy will tear us apart.

sounds more to me like butterflies (not the kind when you're nervous) the kind when you are infatuated.

I'm referring to love in general, not only romantic varieties. Pretty sure I'm not infatuated with my friends or "niece," so I stand by my feathers.

I wanna know what love iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissss. I need you to show meeeeeeeeeeeeee!


Lol, sorry. I couldn't resist. Anywho, love is that feeling where you can find out the worst possible characteristic of a friend/relative/lover and it doesn't change the existing relationship. Basically, you love/care for them no matter what. I don't know if I explained this well or not but I hope I got the idea across.

I have traditionally had a difficult time defining what love is. It's easier for me to say what love isn't. And one conclusion I've come to is that, at least as I experience it, love is not an emotion.

I can't decide whether that sounds lovely or like a perverted torture technique.

I don't think I've ever experienced love, if lust isn't love. I've really fallen for someone before, but I think it was lust. I have no idea what love feels like, and nobody can explain it.

That Hadaway tune is great.

I love this quote, it is from a child.

"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth."

To me love is to care for a person like it was a rare and fragile beautiful glass sculpture. Something unique you never want to break or damage. Something that enriches your life and that you like exactly the way it is.

similar feelings though the terms are quite inadequate; they fall short.
in a way it's just utterly indescribable. Amazing and wonderfully indescribable.

Love is like a cloud to me, it comes in an infinite amount of shapes and sizes, everyone's description of it is different and it will forever escape my grasp.

And something about hydrogen.

I'd say it's got heavy doses of each.



Words always do, don't they? I just want to say that I'm very happy for your own recent happiness. ^_^



I can't believe that's from a child. What a wonderful way of putting it. I'd say the reverse holds up as well--the way you say their name is different. Or, if you're crazy like me, the fact that you say their name at all is different.

When I people-watch, I marvel at how often humans say each others' names. Not just humans in love, either. Any humans who are interacting. I've read that people really love to hear their name, but it's always a little jolting for me when someone says my name (though it's MUCH easier since I legally changed my name away from a name I really hated. It physically hurt when someone would call me by my old name.)

I mainly only use names if I'm trying to get someone's attention or if I first arrange to meet someone and want to make sure I've managed to connect up with the correct person. Or when referring to someone third-person, which is most common. I've easily used my partner's name ten times as much when mentioning him to someone else than when directly addressing him. I can only remember calling him by his name five times in the 12 years we've been together and those were all to get his attention when I was picking him up or he was picking me up somewhere.

Yeh, I don't use names much either... I can go months without knowing someones name, and doesn't really make things awkward since I never use names anyways xD

I use names when typing online or referring to someone, and like Sparrowrose when I need to get someones attention and can't otherwise xD, this actually happens fairly often with my friend Dennis because he's half-deaf (wears hearing aides, and sometimes... doesn't xD), so sometimes only time I can get his attention is by calling his name

On aim, the guy I like I use his name a lot... in a lot of goofy petnames... I tend to like making nicknames for people in general online, but usually based off game character or aim SN... not their real name

But come in person, and never use their name while conversing with them, or calling them, its actually really awkward to do it (needa call ppls name in rock climbing sometimes to properly communicate to your partner, but I keep forgetting and feel weird when I do manage to).


As for what I feel love as.... I don't know... =/

I have a hard time telling my parents/family that I love them... I mean I *CARE* for them, and hope that they don't have to go through a single moment of pain or hardship, same for all my friends... but love? Based off of growing up, and society saying that you love your family and everything, and all the reading/media on it, I'd say yes, I love them.... but otherwise, theres really no way of knowing :X I don't *feel* anything... so it just feels weird and strange saying "I love you" to them... about 3-4x a year I'll pop out and say it just so my parents don't feel bad... my mom always gets really happy when I do (but she's used to me not saying it in response to hers on phonecalls and stuff).

But for the dude I like... the whole liking thing... has been really weird! Freaked me out for the first few months, but finally got used to it... it was just unlike any other feeling I ever felt, and constantly affected me and was overwhelming... I guess because I generally don't feel many emotions strongly, and because I never experienced it before. I was almost panicking from it... I kinda hated him for making me like him, because it felt too weird and wrong and uncomfortable... but this is just "like" (no, not lust, don't like anyone remotely in that way). But there is still love between friends, so I guess it is a larger degree of "love" than normal, as everyone else seems to suggest... I just can't quite explain it... or understand it, or really recognize it when it appears (I actually was freaking out for a bit because didnt know why I was feeling so weird xD...)

But overall, I'd say its a deep caring, and wishing well for those people (family, friends) from the bottom of your heart, and being open to doing anything you can to help them achieve happiness.