The one significant something connecting everyone. Who knew a simple four letter word could mean so much. Or perhaps so little for some. 

As creatures of this world we have three things. Birth. Love. Death. To me, these are the three things in life you have zero control over, whether you like it or not. You don't have a choice in your birth, for most, you don't get to choose your death. And for love, well, we see this as both a blessing and a burden. 

We don't ask for love but we all yearn it in some uncontainable amount. We all want to be held, to be adored, to be cared for. This doesn't have to be romantically, love is something we seek everywhere. Male or Female, we search for the same feeling. I think we're all confused and lost hoping for a love we ourselves cannot yet offer.

The definition:

1. a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.

2. a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend.

3. sexual passion or desire.

4. a person toward whom love is felt; beloved person; sweetheart.

And then some advice from the Urban dictionary:

"Nature's way of tricking people into reproducing" or "Lust is the desire for their body; love is the desire for their soul."

I suppose in many cases people get the two confused, and mixed up and placed the wrong way around. Sometimes we think we're in love when really it's just lust. Or even, because you love someone so much, when they lust you in return, you're too blind to see it. And maybe that's when the breakdown of relationships happen, when one loves and the other simply lusts. Pretending to love, saying the word, being there but not present. 

Love is an ever curious thing, I'm not sure we will ever truly master or understand it. Love makes our world rotate. Caring, helping, assisting, being there. To me, all of this is love. Selflessness is love. When I say this word to another, every single inch of me means it. And if for whatever reason that person leaves my life and chooses to love another. This doesn't mean my love for them dies there,  it is infinite, it continues, it is forever. My soul will forever remember you fondly and care for you should you need me too.

Love's meaning has been lost over the years I think. Couples throw it around and say it to one another because they feel they have too, not because deep down into this earth they mean it. Love is the one thing you can't pretend to be. And if you fall out of love, this is okay, it happens everyday. We just need to be honest with one another. Humans are strange creatures though, we're so fabulous at pretending and carrying on as though the love has not changed. 

Humans are so obsessed we write about it, we create music about it, we put on plays, we create films, we write poetry, we create art for it. Everything stems from this magical feeling we struggle to grasp. 

"Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?" - William Shakespeare

I love a great many people, yet I still yearn for it, for my one. For that human that adores me so much the thought of leaving my side is unthinkable. Not for a short time, but for a long time. To be there for everything. 
That's enough from me though, down below will tell you what it's really all about. 

CA x

"The most spectacular, indescribable, deep euphoric feeling for someone. 

Love is an incredibly powerful word. When you're in love, you always want to be together, and when you're not, you're thinking about being together because you need that person and without them your life is incomplete. 

This love is unconditional affection with no limits or conditions: completely loving someone. It's when you trust the other with your life and when you would do anything for each other. When you love someone you want nothing more than for them to be truly happy no matter what it takes because that's how much you care about them and because their needs come before your own. You hide nothing of yourself and can tell the other anything because you know they accept you just the way you are and vice versa. 

It's when they're the last thing you think about before you go to sleep and when they're the first thing you think of when you wake up, the feeling that warms your heart and leaves you overcome by a feeling of serenity. Love involves wanting to show your affection and/or devotion to each other. It's the smile on your face you get when you're thinking about them and miss them. 

Love can make you do anything and sacrifice for what will be better in the end. Love is intense,and passionate. Everything seems brighter, happier and more wonderful when you're in love. If you find it, don't let it go.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: 

That word is love."

~Sophocles