Love.

What is love? One of life's great mysteries, Love is complex, difficult, and undefinable. What do you feel when you love someone? Yes, love is an emotion, a feeling, a wanting and a "being" that makes one feel good when receiving it.

 

For some, love is patient, love is kind. Love has no envy, nor does it boasts itself, and it is never proud. Love protects, perseveres, and hopes for the positive aspects of life. Love is wanting the best for the other half. Love is not possessing, but liberating. Love is giving emotional, spiritual and physical enjoyment enthusiastically and unconditionally. 

 

While others may say, love is the sum of all fears. When you think you have found love, you will try every means to keep the love alive. You live for the other person, instead for yourself. You fear his/her disapprovals, hesitations and emotional outbursts. A struggle for love, attention and power soon develops and slowly break down the relationship.

 

There are many types of love, such as romantic love, where it is deep, intense, and shared on an intimate and interpersonal relationship. Then there are affections such as platonic love, family love and religious love, where the souce of love comes from one's desires, preferences and feelings. Love cannot be measured, take for example, the relationship between a mother and a child. The mother loves the child unconditionally, and this depth of love cannot be measured. I believe love should be experienced, and not just felt. The magic of love can be created by focussing on the goodness of the other person. Love does the rest of the job, by bonding and connecting us in a unified link of trust and intimacy, which enhances the relationship and comforts the soul.

 

I had love with someone, not too long ago. We first started almost 9 years ago. I believe it was puppy love then, it slowly developed between us over a period of 2 years. Suddenly, it all ended in an instant, but our hearts were unwilling to let go. A couple of years down the road, we decided to give it another try, but things did not work out again. Even though our hearts long to be together, both of us are unwilling to commit to each other totally.

 

Like an unfinished love story, we left it to the mysterious hands of fate and time. We maintained our friendship all along. Everytime i look at her, my heart melts with a warm and fuzzy feeling. Every look into her eyes is like looking into the window of my soulmate's heart, there is unspoken love, compassion and desire in our gazes. Over the past 2 years, feelings started to flutter yet again, and we became intimate for a short period. We were very happy. 

 

But, like the forbidden fruit that was never meant to be eaten, love slipped out of our hands once again. I do not regret the decision that I have made, as I know i am following what my heart tells me to. Everything happens for a good reason, I believe should love come knocking again, it will be deeper and more intense. Love is not a journey into the unknown. Be together, share your joys and sorrows, understand each other, while giving space at the same time. Always be there for each other, and love will definitely blossom.

 

It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.