Love: Walking Together Yet Differently

We have seen a lot of confusion about the feeling; "Love".

sometimes, we mistake simple attraction for love. You can be attracted to someone's personality, facial looks, physique, intellect, lifestyle among many others. I've seen people who are attracted to someone because he/she is intelligent. The attraction even goes up to the way a person talks, walks, cares for others (which is a part of someone's personality), laughs, smiles, plays...name it.

Now, attraction can stir feelings in you. It has to, in fact. sometimes, these feelings seem like love. And truly, it may be love of some sort, but not in the sense we know it as.

Attraction is usually not deep. It's about liking someone or liking something about the person. You can admire someone but it doesn't you love or you're in love with that person.

Although love requires attraction, not all attraction is love.

How do you know if you love someone or you're merely attracted to the person?

There is something;

If you love someone, you'll know. you'll just know. You don't have to squint for signs. The signs reveal themselves to you and even to people around you. This is not for mentally biased people. Signs of love are not when you're put in the same seat or class or the person dumps his boyfriend or her girlfriend for you.

When you are truly in love with someone, you don't easily fall out of it.

Note: this is not the same as an obsession. Maybe this is one of the reasons for the tradition of courtship before marriage. You can't grow tired of someone you love.

You love flowers and you also love chicken. That doesn't make you eat the flowers or use the chicken to propose or for decoration.

Not all love has to lead to a romantic relationship.

That you love someone doesn't make him/her the "right partner" for you. what if you've found true love but the person doesn't love you back? That is why there is a limitless number of people you can love. There is no person "exclusively designated" for you.

Love can exist but a relationship may not work out due to several reasons.

Love is perceived differently by different individuals. This could be a reason for the misunderstanding in relationships. I recommend we should think less of what love means to other people and how they choose to express it and focus more on what the feeling of love is to you. Then, you hook up with someone that shares the same feeling. Though this can't guarantee "happily ever after".

Fall in love with both your heart and head.

Love is a beautiful thing don't get it twisted