What Is Love?

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What is love? Does it even exist? How do you know if you’re in love? What happens if you don’t feel loved? What can come from love? These are questions people ask themselves everyday. People mistake love all the time. Some people say that love is that tingly feeling in your body, others say that feeling is indigestion. People in today’s world need love. Without it, people feel cold and alone. Weather receiving love from a parent, friend, or someone special, people need it.
First, when you are in love, you are completely unselfish to the one you love. An eight year old stated “love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs”. In a twisted way, I believe this boy has helped defined love. Just the idea of giving without expecting something in return is a true act of unselfishness. A deeper example would be if your spouse only had one working kidney, and she needed a kidney transplant. Problem, the only matching kidney in the world is yours. Would you be willing to sacrifice the way you live for your spouse’s life. A person in love wouldn’t think of the potential problems they would have, and give their organ.
Next, love for a family member. How many teenagers say they hate their parents? How many siblings say they hate brothers or sisters? We all know that these people do not actually hate them, but care for them. An example, my 18-year-old cousin came to visit from California, and her parents gave her a twelve o’clock curfew. I (at 17) had a curfew of two o’clock. My cousin told her parents that she hated them, and stormed out of the house. In reality, her parents were just trying to keep her out of trouble, in a town she does not know. At the end of the night she came home at twelve thirty. She had came home because there was a fight at the party she was attending. Moments after she left the police came and broke it up. The next morning my cou...