Love: A Personal Essay: The Definition Of Love

For many years, love has been argued as to whether it is a feeling or a choice. We experience love in all shapes in forms through family, friends, or significant others. But what is the true, desirable definition of love? You would be surprised with how much this four letter word means to the world and how much it could affect your life. I believe love is something unique and special that most people cannot live without. If you feel as if these characteristics don't exist in your life, then what will you have in the end? (Odo 66) But then again love isn't just about the “magic” you have for someone, but about how to make it work and to keep that meaning alive, and about learning to love yourself before you love others. First of all, Love

Love is an incredible, affectionate feeling that can be experienced multiple times, over and over again. The actual definition of romantic love has been continuously altered in the minds of men as time progressed, but what about women? We compare arranged marriages and marriages as to whether they are the result of romance, or simply if one loves the other, and then usually the two engage in matrimony. Although, Anjula Razdan explains, “The point of Western romantic ideal is to live ‘happily ever after’, yet nearly half of all marriages in this country end in divorce, and the number of never-married adults grows every year” (251). She argues if falling in love so many times and ending in heartbreak are really worth it, due to the fact she came from a family that strictly proposed arranged marriages. Society agrees that when you meet that “special someone” you are supposed to be with the rest of your life, that you will know at the instant you lock eyes with them. For some of us that may never happen throughout our busy lives, but on the contrary, for the lucky people that do fall in love, it is the best feeling in the world. Some of us may meet them when we are young and out-going, while others may not meet them until