Love?

[GuitarG20]

yeah but see the thing is, I always feel endorphins when i'm with the people I like, but that doesn't necessarily mean i'm in love with them. I am asserting that there is more to love than just the brain chemicals.

[Black Cat]

You could say that love is a stronger kind of frendship. Anyone else thinks that this might be... right?

[Wolfbrother0]

yeah but see the thing is, I always feel endorphins when i'm with the people I like, but that doesn't necessarily mean i'm in love with them. I am asserting that there is more to love than just the brain chemicals.

right, chemicals may have some role but not much you can love friends or family and but not the kind of love at means you want them.

and like black cat says It is a deeper friendship.

[GuitarG20]

You could say that love is a stronger kind of frendship. Anyone else thinks that this might be... right?

Agreed. But it's a very deep friendship. I mean, when you think about it, what is the normal reaction to being in love with someone for a long time? Getting married. and when you get married you are saying that you'll always be with that person, thereby putting that "friendship" into concrete terms. which means you're ignoring the fact that most friendships flounder and eventually fade away

[Trazlo]

I don't think love is something that can be conveyed fully in words.
That's not to say that good verbal descriptions cannot suffice to call to mind the right understanding, but I mean that words cannot explain love to someone who has not experienced it.

Now, I sincerely hope that I do not know what love is because that would imply that I have experienced it, and all of my experiences that I think might have been love (or love-like) have had rather distinct endings that shall never be "rekindled".
I find the notion of losing something that was genuinely "love" to be quite distressing.
Actually, now that I mention it, this line of reasoning suggests that each time I go through a "break-up" I would refine my idealistic notion of love to exclude that experience so that I would not have to rationalize something so distressing.
That motivation opens the line of thought that I might have actually been in love but have since then gone into denial that it was ever love.
And of course, if I were in the habit of dismissing what love actually was as something that "must" not be love, then that would mean I will never find love so long as I remain clueless as to my delusions.
And that would mean I would never truly know love even if it found me, and that I might lose love *again* without ever realizing my mistake.

. . . I don't like this thread. . .

[Gracono]

Love is attraction. Chemically every particle of energy seeks wholeness. Atoms tend to bond with other atoms that will complete their outer electron levels easier than other atoms.

Everything is energy. As an energetic soul we all have one perfect mate. That perfect mate...the true soul mate..they are the ones that would balance and complete us as we also would for them.

What love is and feels like on nearly any other level greatly differentiates with each individual.

[Monster]

"When life leaves us blind,
love keeps us calm."

"May your love never end,
and if you need a friend,
theres a seat here alongside me"

some interesting lyrics from songs.

I think that when it comes down to one thing alone, love is what keeps us going. Fathers love their families and thats what keeps them motivated to work hard enough to recieve a large enough payckeck to feed a family without breaking down and killing themselves out of frustration.

God's love for us has held him back from destroying us, with all the evil that we have in this world.

We all continue to carry out the horrible monotony of our daily lives because someone that we love is waiting for us at home.

I think that love (romantic love) does exist but is very hard to find and it is a vital part of our lives