Love

Many new people want to be loved, but what is love? Is it staying up all night waiting for your boyfriends phone call? It is the way a mom cuts their child’s sandwich diagonally because they know they like it better that way? Or is it the way two best friends can stay up until three in the morning talking about their problems and being there for each other. I think Corinthians chapter thirteen verse four through seven explained what love is perfectly. It states, “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres.” Many believe that if you are perfect you will be loved but that is not the case. If that were true the only way to love is by being perfect and since true perfection doesn’t exist, true love wouldn’t exist.  

To be loved is one of the best feelings in the world but being able to love is THE best feeling in the world. The idea of love is so complex that it seems strange that a four letter word can describe it all. Are we all destined to fall in love, to find our soul mate and skip off happily ever after into the sunset. Or is love only granted to the greatest of human beings and the rest of humanity has to learn to live without it.

There are different types of love. The kiss on the cheek a mother gives to her child; or the tender touch of two lovers after getting home from working a nine hour shift. As a young girl I dreamt that one day I would be able to love someone that deeply but I think loving someone truly and completely is an ability, and some people just aren’t able to love something or someone.

Most people think that without love they won’t be complete but in my opinion you have to feel complete on your own and learn to love yourself before you can really love anyone else.

Teenagers use the world freely without really knowing what it means. Every time that happens they make it harder on themselves to find actual love because they aren’t seeing this ability for what it truly is. To love someone truly is like giving someone a fully loaded gun pointed at your heart and trusting them not to pull the trigger. If someone says they are in love, but they aren’t ready to hand over the “gun” then they are just lying to themselves.