Ahh, yeah I know, a rant on love, how original. But hopefully, this one will be unlike the other ones that are a simple combination of the age-old cliche’s thrown together.

Well, first, what is love, I mean, really, what is it. Is it a feeling? Is it just a description of what someone feels? Or is it what so many people deem it to be, that being, the “selfless feeling”?

I personally believe that love is nothing but a word. Sort of like, hate or anger. They’re just words. I mean, if I say ” I love you” what does it actually prove? That I’m able to string a few words together in the hope that you’ll believe what I’m saying? For me, that’s nothing much, almost anyone can do that. 

So many people associate love with a relationship, a word that sums up what most relationships are perceived as these days. But for me, love is a bond, not necessarily between two people who are in a “relationship”, but just two people, who would do things for each other, that would be out of the normal for one.

But this doesn’t mean that what they would do would be selfless. For example: Two people who are in love, and are in a relationship, Person A wouldn’t be in the relationship if they didn’t feel as though they were benefiting from it, same goes for Person B. To fully understand what’s being said, we must realize that there’s no such thing as a “selfless person” or a “selfless act” only people who’s actions are done with less or more degrees of selfishness. To believe that you, or someone else is selfless, is simply ignorant. No-one here would place themselves in a position where it would be entirely beneficial for one, and detrimental to yourself.

Some may argue that sticking by their best-friends side, no matter what is an act of selflessness. This act is only done with the belief that this favor, or act of kindness would be, returned at a stage of time when required. Using Person A and Person B as examples yet again, given that they’re best friends, each person believes that what is done for one, the other would do in return. I now pose the question to you, that if, Person A had the knowledge that Person B would not be there for them in their time of need, would Person A persist with the friendship, knowingly that it is, inevitably going to be their downfall? Show me one example of someone who’s done this, and I’ll stand corrected.

One of the best quotes I’ve heard in my life would have to be from One Tree Hill - “The two greatest tragedies in life are falling in love, and falling out of it” - Michael Chad Murray.(Not 100% sure if that’s the exact wording, but the meaning implied is the same). 

It’s amazingly true, isn’t it? 

I’m sure we’ve all had our bouts with love, or what we’ve come to know as love, and, I would find it almost impossible to believe that we have all been “happy” with it, through each stage. Speaking from personal experience, I can say that love is, one of the most spectacular things that anyone will encounter. It’s got the ability to make you the happiest you’ve ever been, and the ability to strip it away almost instantaneously. It’s got the ability to skew someone’s thoughts on life for the better, and for the worse. It’s got the ability to make us the best person we can be, and the worst person we can be.

The same applies for falling out of it. We can take so many things from falling out of this feeling. We can come out of it a better person who’s knowledge of people and knowledge of the vicissitudes of life has increased, or we can come out of it, a dark and baleful person, who’s experiences have scarred us eternally. We can learn to let go, and cherish what was had, or hold on helplessly to what we believe is still there.

I’ve got so much more to say on this, but I’ll probably cut it here. I’ve been doing this for about, 30 minutes, haha. I hope you’re able to take something from this.