Legacies of Love

Are you a hopeless romantic? Because I am.

I am a sucker on others love stories. Maybe it feels good to have one for myself too but right now is not yet the season for me to have a romantic relationship.

I actually love being single.

Before, all I know is that LOVE as something that makes my heart skip a beat or my insides turn because of the 'butterflies'. Someone complimenting me, appreciating my beauty and all the shallowness a young heart craves to experience.

Reading romantic stories, watching Korean dramas, american movies, and being so into their stories make my day. I don't have a self-pity just because I am not involved with someone with opposite gender.

I know many people love me in other kinds of love.

I've read somewhere that they are different types of love.

The most common is the Philia- that kind of love directed to your family and friends.

Nothing is easier than loving those who are very dear to you. We all know family is everything. They are the reason why we can get by everyday and so are our friends. They keep us motivated and help us to love life itself.

The second one could be Storge- the love of parents to their children.

Simple yet powerful. A very unconditional love given by parents to their offsprings. Even animals have this kind of love. What more human beings that reproduced using their own flesh and sweat (if you know what I mean) This kind of love is not yet something familiar to me coz I am not yet a mother but looking how my mother and father proves it really is a powerful one. It is the reason why I am still thriving today.

The third one is Eros- the love where erotic and physical desires fall in.

This love drives many people. Being inlove with someone other than family. This can be short-lived but still passionate but it can be different for everyone. I've seen and witnessed many people in screens and real life tingle with each other even if their relationship is unhealthy because it is... addicting. Like a drugs that no one can get rid of their system once they've tried it.

Even young people already feels into erotic love just because they think they already know enough. Well, everyone is entitled to be in love and be loved. No one is forced to stay loveless because it's not a sin.

Intimacy is not wrong.

Let me focus first in this type of love because I have an issue of being so attached on others' romantic relationship especially those made for fiction.

I invest so much emotion on fictional characters. I feel so good seeing them in love.

Their love language brings shiver to my soul.

Their affectionate words, physical touch and how they express their extreme feelings. All that bond brings joy to my hopeless romantic ass.

I want to fall in love like that. I want to meet someone as nice and loving as him. I want to be respected like that. I want to feel special too.

And when heartbreaks come into the picture, I cry with the protagonist. Some may think that's too childish but that's just be. I am attached on other's romance.

BUT I WANT MINE TO BE MY OWN LOVE STORY.

Even when I get wishful thinking if what if I also experience the same plot like other written stories, I still want my own.

Why do they call it hopeless romantic when I get hopeful that my Eros love would be long-lived, passionate and hard to be broken?

And there's one last kind of love and the most powerful there is, Agape- God's love to His creations.

All I know is that this love is the reason why we are alive right now. It is unconditional, unbreakable and endless.

This love should be the foundation of all the other types of love.

The love to parents, friends, loved ones and special someone should be based on what we feel to God. If He is the center, I assure you that your bond will be as strong as your faith.

Before we crave on someone's love- we should first seek His love above all.

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