The Four Letter Word (Love)

SERIES 1:3

Love

What is love? Love is the affection for someone or something deeply. Love is the connection of the mind, heart, and soul. This form of affection is indeed the purest. Love is the factor that wins over all. 

I'd say experiencing love would be getting your feet rubbed at the end of a long day, or having a hot bath run. Or perhaps those romantic hallmark movies, where the perfect boy meets the perfect girl in the heart of a perfect small town. Love is the feeling that feels so real. Love is the whirlpool of emotions trapped in such a tiny pocket, which can't help but to overflow. Is there anyone you'll lie for? Anybody you'd die for? Perhaps your lover.

The feet rubs, back massages, uncontrollably ugly laughs, and burp contests don't spark over night. It's a process. Love is a process. Therefore, the good and bad do fail to exist. There is beauty in the struggle.

 Love is also a losing game of trial and error. 

Love is a learning experience.

Again, the feels of love are sensational. There isn't anything like it. The power of love is beautiful. Whether you've found the love of your life or the love of a passionate interest. Love is love. Love could make you or break you. It is simply a gamble. Is the gamble worth the roll for you? Me personally? Yes. But, what about you? The luxuries of love in my opinion is faith, dedication, and empathy. Well Trin, what about loyalty and trust? Those are essentials, the basics, and in other words the bare minimum. Analyzing the terms of faith, dedication, and empathy emphasises loyalty and trust. What's faith without loyalty? What's dedication without trust? Just think about it. 

The BARE minimum isn't love. Though, it's everything above it. Finding a hobby to pass sparetime doesn't mean you love it, yet it just makes it enjoyable. Is faith essential to love? You may ask, yet here's your answer IT IS EVERYTHING. Once a hobby is continuously stealing your time and joy, perhaps only then you‘ll love it. A hobby turned into a favorite thing requires dedication. The effort of continuance, coming back, and going again prove it is something. Empathy is the key to my heart. Other cancers may agree or maybe even you, yet empathy in love just flows better. Considering your hobby or partner in everything you do matters most. If you love it/him/her, make sure they're considered 100%.

 Ever heard the term, "Do everything out of love"? Why? because love considers all components. Love requires heart. You’re either in it completely or halfway. The halfway mark of love involves fear. You're fearful towards love, and that is why the task seems so difficult. Love is the comfort, pleasing, and or consideration of something or someone dearly. Always. 

Love is a practice of two moving as one. Love is where sync meets. As I express the movement of sync, let’s just imagine how powerful two moving as one could rest. I see the sight clearly, it's beautiful. The unconditional efforts of compliments, gestures, and planned or unplanned dates matter. The efforts of love matters most, after all it's the final say towards loving someone.

The ideal lovers 

An ideal lover for the win. It is what everyone craves in the end. Everyone craves that perfect someone. Ideal lovers complete each other sentences, engage in corny activities, and do every and anything under the moon to see one another smile. An ideal lover doesn't exist, instead lovers are created and built. Your perfect someone exists. If your ideal lover isn't here now perhaps they'd visit later, or sometime in between. 

Recall the infamous Shakespearean tale, the tale of Romeo and Juliet. The two lovers of different backgrounds, though shared similarities. What made Romeo and Juliet so significant? To me it was their love. The two held such passion for one another, whether others agreed or not. It was their love and it only mattered to them most. Others objected, situations troubled them, and life carried on, though their love remained wholesome. Now, that’s love for you right? 

Growing Pains

Love ranging old, cold, and ugly is a great myth. There I said. Falling out of love is a struggle of realizing that the action is unjust; made up. You’ll always love a person you once loved. It sucks sometimes, though the accuracy of this hurts.

Me personally? I’ve considered anyone cold who could engage in losing love so effortlessly. But, everyone isn’t me. Once I love you, I simply always will. What about you? How important is love for you? Perhaps not important enough or too important? Well, your answer lingers within your relationship with everyone around you. Do you perhaps:

Love too much.

Love too little.

Love at a certain cost?

Love for certain reasons?

Or love in the sake of dreading loneliness?

What does love mean to you?

Either way all have their downfalls. What’s yours? Me personally, I’m scared to admit mine. Perhaps you are too, but that doesn’t make you terrible. The truth of love hurts. But it’s the first step of realism towards something true. 

At what cost are you looking for truth in love? After all, it’s indeed beautiful. 

I write this nevertheless to say love is beautiful. If given a chance, enjoy the luxuries of love. It doesn’t come easily often. Love is paid at a cost.

The four letter word LOVE matters. Just seek a fairground of knowing just how much. 

Love is the passion of knowing you’re passionate enough, of experiencing the feelings just once. 

-Trinadè Patrick