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[Alright, I wrote this last term for my english class. I ended up submitting it to a contest at my school (with the support of my english teacher and my boyfriend) and I'm hoping it's good enough to get published.]
Love is something that very few people ever learn to understand, even now writing about it I do not understand it all. Love is an emotion that cannot be felt lightly. Love can start out with crushes or occur right on sight with someone. Love cannot be explained with simple words or even metaphors at times. It is knowing that you’d be willing to die or more for the person you have these feelings for. Love also has its dark side. It can be the most painful emotion in the world to feel, when it is not returned.
Love is something that I was never sure would ever happen to me, nor did I think I was capable of feeling such feelings for anyone outside of my family. As I grew up I began to doubt love more and more, assuming that it was just never going to happen. It was in the 6th grade that I met my first crush, a wonderful boy named Lucas. I doubted love even then, but that all changed. Though the relationship never got off the ground, though he did find out about my feelings for him, I began to believe and have faith that love could in fact happen to me. Since then love has become one of the most important aspects of my life.
Love is something that still eludes me now, though I’ve found someone to focus my loving feelings on, and I am certain will continue to in the future. However in my search for love, or at least what it is I have discovered that is comes in many forms. I have come to love certain people as if they were my own brothers and sisters, a secondary family at my home away from home and other places. Love is something almost essential to life, or at least love in some form or another is. Love shows up in everything someone sees or does in one way or another. However to most people love has been lost or the ability to love and care for a complete stranger has. The ability to love and show compassion to a total stranger is important to humanity as a whole because we need to care for one another and help each other out, even if we have no reason to other then compassion.
Love however can also be the part in a person’s life that destroys them and brings them the most pain. When love is not returned it is extremely painful to the person who fell in love, no matter the reasons. It hurt when Lucas didn’t return my feelings, but it was not the end of everything for me. That love is what got me to believe in love. All people have to do is believe that love will find them again, and not leave them alone.
Love is breath for someone suffocating; it is light for someone who is constantly in the dark. It is a chance at life for someone who is dying. Love is the most important thing in our lives. We are love by so many, we are loved by our family and our friends and those whom we bring close to us. We need only look around to see how many people admire and care for us.
 Evelie Harte · Wed Apr 18, 2007 @ 04:21am · 1 Comments |
