WHAT PEOPLE ASSUME LOVE IS:

Are your palms sweaty, is your heart racing and 
is your voice caught 
within
your chest?
It isn't love, it's LIKE.

You can't keep your eyes or hands off of them, 
am I right?
It isn't love, it's LUST.

Are you proud, and eager to show them off?
It isn't love, it's LUCK.

Do you want them because you know they're there?
It isn't love, it's LONELINESS.

Are you there because it's what everyone wants?
It isn't love, it's LOYALTY.

Are you there because they kissed you, or held 
your hand?
It isn't love, it's LOW CONFIDENCE.

Do you stay for their confessions of love, 
because you don't want to 
hurt
them?
It isn't love, it's PITY.

Do you belong to them because their sight makes 
your heart skip a beat?
It isn't love, it's INFATUATION.

Do you pardon their faults because you care 
about them??
It isn't love, it's FRIENDSHIP.

Do you tell them every day they are the only one 
you think of?
It isn't love, it's a LIE.

Are you willing to give all of your favorite 
things for their sake?
It isn't love, it's CHARITY.

WHAT LOVE REALLY IS:

Does your heart ache and break when they're sad?
Then it's LOVE.

Do you cry for their pain, even when they're 
strong?
Then it's LOVE.

Do their eyes see your true heart, and touch 
your soul so deeply it 
hurts?
Then it's LOVE.

Do you stay because a blinding, incomprehensible 
mix of pain and 
relation
pulls you close and holds you there?
Then it's LOVE.

Do you accept their faults because they're a 
part of who they are??
Then it's LOVE.

Are you attracted to others, but stay with them 
faithfully without 
regret??
Then it's LOVE.

Would you give them your heart, your life, your 
death??
Then  it's LOVE.

Now, if love is painful, and tortures us so, why 
do we love? Why is it 
all
we search for in life? This pain, this agony? 
Why is it all we long 
for?
This torture, this powerful death of self? Why? 
The answer is so 
simple,
because it's... LOVE. It is such an addictive 
thing that even people 
who are
not having it wish to experience it and share it 
with others as well.

Contentment is not having what you want... it is 
wanting what you 
already
have.
                

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