About Love - Essay

ALAON, EMILY V
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AN ESSAY ABOUT LOVE

What is one emotion that has everyone mystified? What is one emotion that has started as many wars as it has ended? What emotion had more plays, songs and stories written about it than anything else? Love, that one emotion that makes enemies into friends and friends to enemies. So many legend surround this emotion , from the goddess Athena and Helen of Troy to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet .

Everybody knows what love is. But what is the best definition for it? How can we say that we are in love? What is the feeling to love and to be loved? There are so many questions regarding in this topic. Though we do not have the perfect and best definition for it, it just simply exists in the different reasons and in different personalities.

“What is love?” The most popular question that we can hear everywhere. It   amazes me so much, because once you asked for their definition, they may not result the same, it differs but all of these, their answers are their perspective about love. Love? In Chinese/Japanese word,(ai) , in Latin word, (amor , amoris)
In Spanish, (el amor), in Korean, (sa-rang) and here in our country, (mahal kita). They may have different pronunciations, spellings and accent; still they have the same meanings.

They say, that once you loved a person, expect that you will be hurt. Not by physical means but emotionally. Others say that love not to be equal, it only needs to be true, because if you love someone, first make sure that you are ready to sacrifice anything for your lover, sometimes that sacrifices may be your love itself. They say that it is the best feeling that an individual feel. Love can do anything and can destroy everything.

I don’t pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell what it is for me, love is knowing all about someone, and still wanting to be with them more than any other person, love is trusting them enough to tell them everything abut yourself,...