What is Love?

Love for me before was this special feeling of happiness, overjoy and tingly feeling inside. When my heart beats so fast after seeing and talking to a girl I like I know its love. I used to say “I’m so in love!” Oh how I have never been so wrong my entire life. Well not entirely of course.  Love is defined to be a special connection between people. So love is definitely not a feeling but a very special connection. When you say you’re so in love that’s not really love. For you to love you must have trust, believing in them, respect, showing appreciation of them and affection, showing your good intent through action. Lacking in either of those does not make you love them. Even though you have respect and trust towards them, if you don’t show your affection it not love.
It is also said that there are 7 types of love namely Agape, Storge, Pragma, Philautia, Philia, Ludus and Eros. Agape is the type of love for humanity. This loves makes us sympathize with ourselves. We feel like there is a connection to other people even though we don’t know them for the reason that we are humans who share experiences, emotions and ideals. Storge on the other hand is a love for family. This is the type of love that the mother has for the child, father to child, grandfather to child and vice versa. Another type is Pragma. This is lasting love or love that endures. The type of love you see I marriage.  The love that endures through thick and thin. The love that endures even after so many years of not meeting each other. Next is the Philautia. It is the love for oneself. This is not vanity but the joy of being ourselves. The next is Philia, the love of shared experiences. Ludus the  playful kind of love. Finally, Eros, the romantic and erotic love.
From those, we know that love is not only about you but also the other person. Their needs and wants. Love is not selfish, its about how you can sacrifice yourself for the person you love. And that is true love.

SocSci10 Z Group 5


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