Love, according to Merriam, is a feeling of strong or constant affection for a person. It is also an attraction that includes sexual desire or the strong affection felt by people who have a romantic relationship. It could even be a person you love in a romantic way. But, do we really have to define love based on in its context? Or simply, can we define love?
Love can be considered as something that is unexplainable. When a person is asked why he or she loves someone, that individual would seem to take a pause and say nothing. Why can’t give a fair reason enough? Maybe we have to look at the answers why people fall in love.
BUSINESS. Some people fall in love because there are things he or she needs to have from that person, but later learn to fall in love with him or her. Rich parents could have forced their sons and daughters to marry their business partners’ heirs and heiresses to continue the legacy of business and for money’s sake. Held by the fact of both close family ties and saving the future, well, what else could the children do? They really have to try their best to fall in love with that person though they never had the chance to choose him. Otherwise, they have to lose all the material things they have and even their connections to their family.
PERSONAL. A twist could be turning around a person who does not belong to an affluent clan, and too ambitious enough to have himself or herself go out from mud, then should be needing so much that he or she should fall for someone who can help him/her climb up the mountains of wealth and acquire a rags-to-riches drama. This is not a new love story to tell from television premieres and late night shows.
ATTRACTION. May it be with a very strong sex appeal or just a simple get-up to attract someone could be the reason why someone gets to fall in love. And when this develops, it could slowly become something one cannot let go of. Most often, people get attracted first on the physical appearance, but, when he or she comes to know more about the person, give the attitude a greater percentage to become its reason to stick to the relationship. A few, however, make the ‘beautiful and handsome’ idea their reason so they could have someone to be proud of when they have to let their boy or girlfriends show up in a reunion with friends and relatives.
ATTACHMENT. Not all love stories are just about the relationship with the opposite sex. Let us not forget about work and to the world. Why do we keep working though we repeatedly do our duties and they seem to be unending? Simple. We are in love to it. And why are we in love to it? Because we are so attached to it that we just cannot simply let go, of which letting go would become so hard to do and would mean having all of our previous sacrifices become so useless. At times, when we feel so fed up with everything we do, that others do not see all of our efforts done, we are shouted at, we cry, we complain, we mumble and we lose, we still manage to think about ‘what ifs’ and tell ourselves, “No, I should not give up, I love my work. The heavens have come down to test”.
Another is our attachment to the world. It would have been so depressing to live alone and we cannot handle too much loneliness. Why do we seem to stay alive despite the fact of agony at some point or the negative habits people are doing daily, where happiness perhaps is quite few miles from us? It is because we are so into the things around us that letting go of them would be a very hard task to accomplish. We fall in love with so many things that even death would mean something we have to stay away from no matter what just to keep an eye with our loved ones and take care after them and all other stuffs we are attached to.
NOTHING. Let us go back to the one we have on the third paragraph. When asked about why we really fall in love with someone, a person may just end up raising his or her shoulders up and say, “I don’t know. It just came out to be this way." This is what true love is. No reason could explain how we come to fall in love. The other reasons mentioned could be said on other kinds of love, that will soon arrive to the point of true love in the long run of investing this intense feeling for someone, then ending up with the answer of nothing to reason out.
Let us remember that whatever the reason we give for falling in love, love is still a decision, not just a feeling. We do not make love just because we want to, but because we know what we are doing, we are aware of the consequences it takes and we are ready to face these after deciding so. This is not a game that children play, but a lifetime commitment.
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