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Love. An interesting emotion. "An intense feeling of affection and care towards another person." (Wiktionary.org.) How can something so complex be summed up so easily in one phrase in the dictionary? Love is a human emotion and there are many ways to describe the feeling of being in love, and many ways to describe love itself. It is different, yet the same for everyone. I am going to describe love, the way I see it.

Imagine standing at the edge of a cliff. Hear the water crashing against the rocks below. The cool breeze rushing through your hair, the mist from the sea dusting your face. You breath catches in your throat as your lover grasps your hand. And you run... Run to the edge and jump off. You and your love spread your arms in hopes to fly...
If your relationship can withstand the turbulance of the winds and the weather ahead of you then you will fly forever. If your relationship can't withstand the weather and the winds then you fall... you will either fall into the ocean or land on the rocks.
Everyone has felt the rocks, where the love tears you apart, you don't feel like you can survive, your in a nightmare that won't end, and it feels like your heart just up and left your body leaving you nothing but a shell of the person you used to be. LEAP OF FAITH/LOVE.

Now, this scenario is a very good way to describe love. There are many who are afraid to leap. They fear the rocks. They even fear the ocean. No one ever floats lightly to the ocean or the rocks. One has to believe you can fly together, be happy, support each other during turbulant times, and hope that the flight with that person is worth the fall IF there is a fall.

Love. It can grow from a sparkle of nothing into a supernova. It can feel like flying, falling, or drowning. It is a uniting emotion that brings people together. It can be unconditional. It can be the most wonderful thing in the world, so wonderful that words fail to accurately describe the emotion. For some it feels like flying, for others, drowning. Love itself is harder to explain than the act of actually falling in love because it comes in different ways. Love will grow like a flower or hit you like a ton of bricks. If love were a color, it would be a primary color. When mixed with other emotions one will get something beautiful, but remember beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Love. What it is. What its like to fall in love in my eyes. To step outside of the box and look at it for what it is. A very complex human emotion. In my opinion, love is the most complex of the emotions out there. It will make people do the craziest things for another person that is dear to them. It is not black or white but grey.

"What is more important to you the love you share, the memories you have or the lover? Give love a chance to swallow you up. Don't just think it will happen in a instant, it will suprise you before you know it, but it will be the most rewarding experience you will ever have." - Unknown (Lovingyou.com)