What is love?

This is an old English project I did last year. I quite enjoyed doing it actually.

(you probably have heard this come from me alot ...)



What is Love? Love has been around pretty much, since the beginning of time. It is a feeling that comes pretty naturally. It is known as a feeling, that butterfly feeling in the pit of a person’s tummy, that undeniable sensation, where that person is the happiest they could possibly be. “Love is as common as a cold, but has the power to cure.” I’ve also heard that love is also an action, as well as a feeling, from others. They call it making love, or showing affection towards others. Although making love is a whole other research topic. It’s very difficult to determine whether love is more of a feeling or an action. Many have tried to solve the big mystery of love, and what it really is all about. Love is indefinable.

Love is the puzzle, not one dictionary in the world would ever define, or cover what love really means, or even what it is. “The diversity of uses and meanings combined with the complexity of the feelings involved makes love unusually difficult to consistently define.” Love is something magical, although some do not believe in magic. Love is good, but may bring out the bad. People fight for love. Fighting for love is almost an oxymoron.

“I’m a lover not a fighter, but I’ll fight for what I love”. Love can consume our lives, and dismantle our hearts. People become caught in the moment and are so infatuated, love can mislead them. People are led to doubt love even exists.

For example Christofer Drew Ingle, a famous singer/songwriter wrote a song of his parents separation. “What is love? Is it giving up?” That song is what inspired me to go into deeper research on the big question. Love is the inspiration for many songwriters, poets, and novelists. Christofer began questioning love because he looked up to his parents love, and now, he doesn’t know what to believe about love. “Love is a battlefield,” Sang Pat Benatar, who sang of rough topics. Sometimes, yes love is a battlefield, from divorced parents, to broken teenage hearts. Love is the influence for many songwriters, poets, and novelists. Without love, these writers would be scrambling for something to write about.

Of all the answers received by people, and sites as well, is love still indefinable? Love is still indefinable to me. Some people have love all figured out. Those people have that love thing succeeding greatly. I think that individuals can only explain love to themselves. Individuals can’t be told what love is. We all have to figure it out for ourselves. “Many people believe love is a sensation that magically generates when mister or misses right appears. It can spontaneously degenerate when the magic ‘just isn’t there anymore.’” Love is a maze, a trap. Love can either destroy us or save us.





Q:What is Love?

Levi Benjamin Minson, Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Good question.

Tyler Mattson, Wednesday, April 14, 2010

baby don't hurt me

don't hurt me

come on!

Brad Nash, Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Love is patient, kind, not self-centered, doesn’t boast


Montana Greeno February 3 at 4:16pm

Love is when your stomach gets tied, your heart beats faster, and you're basically breathless, just by talking to one person, and you heart sinks every time they have to leave even if it's just for a minute. J

Deborah Townsend Kirkle February 3 at 4:10

1st Corinthians 13: Love is patient, kind, long suffering, hardly even notices when other's do it wrong. Living Bible version.

April Wold February 3 at 5:38

your music ;)

February 3 at 5:41
Im serious

Elyse Northcutt February 3 at 5:42
love is something that has no solution to it. its a rare thing you find in life that if you are lucky enough, it wont hurt you. but for the average person, its just a pain in the rump.


Sheamus Vaughan-warde February 3, 2010, 6:19 PM

baby, don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more


Brooke Lawrence February 3, 2010, 6:20 PM

"It takes moments to fall in love but it takes years to know what love is."


Andrew James Sloan February 3, 2010, 6:21 PM

1 corinthians 13:4...yeaaaah.
6:50 on the other hand i think love is barely a feeling.its an action. i think it is more simple than people think.


Karissa Kirkle February 3, 2010, 6:32 PM

i dont think you can really put a definition to love..... its something that you have to feel not something that you can put in a dictionary and say here is the definiton..... When you find it you will just know....

Kristen Davis Waters February 3 at 5:25pm

To start, here's a Bible romance:

Genesis 29:20
So Jacob worked seven years to pay for Rachel. But his love for her was so strong that it seemed to him but a few days.

1 John 3:18
Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. (NLV)

Proverbs 15:17
A bowl of vegetables with someone you love is better than steak with someone you hate. (NLV)

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

If I speak in the tongues of men and angels,
but have not love,
I have become sounding brass or a tinkling symbol.

And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains,
but have not love, I am nothing.

And if I dole out all my goods, and
if I deliver my body that I may boast
but have not love, nothing I am profited.

Love is long suffering,
love is kind,
it is not jealous,
love does not boast,
it is not inflated.

It is not discourteous,
it is not selfish,
it is not irritable,
it does not enumerate the evil.
It does not rejoice over the wrong, but rejoices in the truth


It covers all things,
it has faith for all things,
it hopes in all things,
it endures in all things.

Love never falls in ruins;
but whether prophecies, they will be abolished; or
tongues, they will cease; or
knowledge, it will be superseded.

For we know in part and we prophecy in part.

But when the perfect comes, the imperfect will be superseded.

When I was an infant,
I spoke as an infant,
I reckoned as an infant;

when I became [an adult],
I abolished the things of the infant.

For now we see through a mirror in an enigma, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know as also I was fully known.

But now remains
faith, hope, love,

these three;

but the greatest of these is love."

John 15:13
"Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.

John 3:16
"For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life."


Good luck with your school project! :) (And you look very pretty in your profile pic).

Kristen






Alissa Adkins February 3, 2010, 6:42 PM

love is indefinable.


Levi Benjamin Minson February 3, 2010, 11:14 PM

jesus.


Karissa Kirkle February 3, 2010, 11:15 PM

it is an action... love is always in action. Andrew is right it is more simple than people think. You just have to be willing to see it


Mohab Farid February 3, 2010, 11:15 PM

love is something always around you,,, love have lots of definitions according to who you love friend, boy/girl friend, or family,,, love is very simple but you can make it very complicated.


Regina Helson February 4, 2010, 3:55 PM

Brooke got it right on! It's kinda like the fact that we are supposed to strive to be like Christ. We know we will never be just like Him, but the effort that we bring to get there, will show how much we love Him. We may never have perfect love for someone, but if we want it bad enough, we will work hard to get there.


Alissa Adkins February 4, 2010, 3:56 PM

these definitions make me quite happy.
love is most definitely a choice. the feelings that we call "love" fade away and, according to 1 corinthians 13, "love never fails." so, i think if we say that love is a feeling, we are just fooling ourselves.


Joy Pontious February 4, 2010, 3:58 PM

Love is a complicated subject because we Americans have only one word for it, whereas its meaning is so vast. It can be what a parent feels for a child. It can be affection. It can be friendship, it can be romance. It can be compassion. Mostly though, I suppose it is always putting someone else above yourself. Love is beautiful sacrifice.


Ryan Jaspar February 4, 2010, 4:26 PM

At this age... stupid


Deborah Townsend Kirkle February 8, 2010, 12:54 AM

To love someone is to know
the song in their heart and to sing it to them when they have forgotten
the words.

Lisa Johnson: okay soooo what is your definition of love?

Amanda Walker: hmm...

Lisa Johnson: take yer time:)

Amanda Walker: well...that would depend....ya know....im not really sure. why?

Lisa Johnson: im collecting answers to that question for my english project

Amanda Walker: ohhh. coolness. ya know im going to have to get back to you on that...cause i got to think about it.

Lisa Johnson: okay:))

Amanda Walker: lol. i like it thou. you picked a good one.

Lisa Johnson: yeah:))

Matt Jensen: haha. uhhh. Well, i think its something you do, not something you feeel.

would that work?

Lisa Johnson: haha you can be totally goofy about this if you want ^_^

Matt Jensen: ha. i dont goof. at all son

Lisa Johnson: oh. right. haha okay:)) well thanks. son.

Kelly Adkins: I believe Love is to have complete trust in another person. And a bond that isn’t all fate but something that two people really work at