LOVE

Love means different things to different people. Depending on which individual the question is being asked; the answer would be defiantly different. According to the dictionary, Love could mean an intense feeling of deep affection, or could be eel a deep romantic or sexual attachment to. But at the end, love always has something to do with feelings. Love comes in different shapes and sizes. A person can love a dog, another human being, or a property he or she owns. Also there is a saying that says love makes a person do stupid things, which is completely true. When two people are in love, they do whatever is possible in their power to please the other person in the relationship, even if it means that one person in the relationship is hurting himself or herself. Love really doesn’t have an age limit. At a very young age, kids learn to love their toys, parents, and pets if they own one. From this stage, they not only learn how to love they also learn how hate. In this case, kids have the ability to pick and choose what they want to associate themselves with. This leads to the fact that where there is love there is hate, they both go together.

Love, as it partakes to family in America could mean different things. Sometimes love in American families could mean money. Many people marry each other and “falls” in love with another person simply because maybe the person has some type of money or something of value. And other times, people marry for the fact that they really love each other. Both the individuals involved in the marriage might be broke and both poor, but because they love each other, they would be willing to fight through all of the obstacles in their way together. Also there have been situations where the...

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...r mind into thinking he or she will buy jewelry to try to prove how much of love the person has for the other person. So for my mother, jewelry isn’t a thing that is also associated with love, but it would be appreciated if presented. But since me and my other two brothers grew up in the American tradition, we have kind of see that jewelry makes females happy and they are part of the American customs, so in order to fit in, jewelry would be incorporated to the way and what we buy our significant other. We have a hard time showing out love for each other simply because the culture of Nigeria doesn’t really present people with the type of personality to go out their ways to show another person that the love is there. We all just kind of know that we love each other and we support each other in every aspect and every decision anybody has to make in life.