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My favorite love story is my parents'. I can compare their love story to Romeo and Juliet in a sense that the world was against their relationship before. My mom's family , particularly her aunt who she was living with before did not approve of my dad but they also fought for their love and faced the challenges life has to bring to their relationship. Actually, at first they had no commitments to each other like they can go out with other people until both of them started to get jealous when one entertains other people and that was the only time that they really committed to each other and took their relationship seriously.

IT IS TRUE LOVE WHEN:

1.) You give  all your effort and you sacrifice for that person's happiness.
2.) You have  big appreciation of the smallest actions  of care  they do for you.
3.) That person motivates you to become a better person.
4.) It takes time.
5.) You are willing to lose your pride for the sake of your relationship.
6.) What makes that person sad makes you sad and what makes him or her happy makes you happy.
7.) You experience pain.
8.) When that person hurts you and you try to understand them by thinking of multiple excusable reasons to why they have done that particular action.
9.) You acknowledge that this particular person's world does not revolve around you, you acknowledge that they have to work on themselves, on their  own goals and you support them. This is called maturity.
10.) The center of your relationship is God.

* IF YOUR RELATIONSHIP DOES NOT REFLECT AT LEAST 8 OF THE LIST ABOVE, THINK AGAIN!
* IF THIS LIST DOES NOT CONVINCE YOU , GET YOUR BIBLE AND CHECK 1 CORINTHIANS 13:4-6
* SPREAD TRUE LOVE AND BEWARE OF FALSE LOVE, YOU CAN FIND IT ANYWHERE AROUND YOU :((

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hello, good evening. andi's essay (?) has lowered mself esteem by a notch and i'm so

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hello, good evening. andi's essay (?) has lowered mself esteem by a notch and i'm so

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huhubels, alabyu andi

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NOTES: 1. Symptoms may vary accordingly to each person.

2. This is currently an ongoing research and the following are merely my observations.

POSSIBLE SYMPTOMS:

1. Your heart races faster than the speed of light when you are within the proximity of your true love. You also feel as if someone may hear your erratic heartbeat, hammering through your chest.

2. Along with your racing heart, your hands may sweat waterfalls when around your True Love because in your eyes, they're so hot. (;>)

3. They tell you all their “flaws” yet you assure them that we, human beings, are full of flaws and know that these are the little things that add up to your true love, that makes them so lovable.

4. You see past their imperfections to realize that they will never be as perfect as the tip of Mount Mayon, but rather, they are perfectly imperfect, and that’s perfectly alright with you.

5. No matter how many arguments and fights you may get into, at the end of the day, one of you will accept defeat and cuddle up to watch a movie while sharing a tub of ice cream. (You know it's True Love when you're willing to share your food.)

6. When the rain pours down and you have no umbrella while you're on a date with your True Love, you're willing to be wet in order to protect them from the rain. (But don't worry, their love for you will warm you right up. :>)

7. You are able to fart and burp in front of them, and it would be perfectly alright with them and vice-versa because there is no such thing as "gross" when it comes to describing your True Love.

ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS:

1. You may not recognize True Love at first. People tend to mistake the Love Syndrome as the True Love Syndrome. They may have the same symptoms but one major difference would be that True Love takes time. The True Love Syndrome is something you acquire after the Love Syndrome. You may experience Love at any given time and place, but True Love is developed from Love. Love is fleeting and temporary, a train that is coming and going. True Love is a tree, who was first planted as a seedling and as time flew by, it grew and grew until it had been rooted in your heart, a home filled with such warmth, a warmth envied by Ra. True Love is the kind of Love that decides to stay; the kind of Love that is enough.

2. Your True Love may be halfway across the Earth, sipping tea by a warm fireplace, or they may be right in the house across you. They may be a stranger you have yet to meet, the neighbor you never got to know, or the friend you’ve known your entire life. You might have known them your entire life, or not. But as stated in observation number one, True Love takes time. So, stop trying to find True Love; True Love will find you.

3. Your True Love may not be a person. It could be an inanimate object such as a book; or perhaps a pet or simply your work. You cannot choose in what form it may come to you, for True Love comes in various forms, in all shapes and sizes.

NOTE: If symptoms persist, do NOT consult a doctor. ;>

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Let love be the desire to nurture beauty.

Let that be our principal hypothesis as we attempt to further analyse the meaning of love, and subsequently, “true love”.

First: “to nurture beauty”. The reason why we care about beauty is because it inspires proof of our capacity for conscious delight. In other words, it makes us feel alive. It makes us believe our life is being spent the way it ought to be spent: truly alive.

Therefore, we love what is beautiful because such is what lets us live.

Now, we may encounter a certain conflict: desiring to nurture either the beauty itself or only the feeling of being truly alive. It is a conundrum between the beloved and lover – between generosity and egocentricity. This conflict is rather well known and often presented as any variation of the question, “Am I in love with you or am I in love with the feeling?”

Nevertheless, when we look back at our chief hypothesis – “love is the desire to nurture beauty” – it is directly stated that love genuinely tends to the beauty itself and not its effect. It looks at the one being loved and not the one who loves.

Therefore, love is generous.

Consequently, it cares for what the beauty really is, as opposed to simply conjuring and caring for a mere illusion. It willingly acknowledges and accepts the beauty’s flaws and true self, choosing that over any delusion one may make up simply to make him/herself feel better. Again, the priority is the beauty, not the feeling that it brings.

Therefore, love is not blind.

Now, we have reached a postulate stemming from the principal hypothesis. The former’s main points are as follows:

1.     We love what is beautiful because such is what lets us live

2.     Love is generous

3.     Love is not blind

We therefore postulate that love wishes to generously and honestly tend to what pleases us.

How is this concept demonstrated in real life? There are various examples.

Point 1. We love others because of the delight that we derive from them, be it fulfillment of basic needs, a lack of loneliness, the way they interact with us, the beauty we see in them, the parts of their souls we learn to appreciate, et cetera.

Point 2. We love someone when we truly, simply want what’s best for them, not only what’s best for us. It is a widely held belief that relationships thrive on selflessness and genuinely caring for the other. (Though this is not necessarily synonymous with self-deprecation – in fact, it is believed that self-love is essential before one can properly, generously love others. The self is meant to be satisfied by self-love first so that it does not spoil or feed on love meant for others)

Point 3. We love someone when we appreciate a version of him/her that is as accurate as possible. Though we can never truly know everything about an individual, love still sees and accepts (without justifying) any cracks and flaws to the best of its abilities. It interacts with others as imperfect beings, willingly seeing them for who they are instead of imprisoning them on pedestals.

Beyond these three points, I do not think there is more. It is worth noting that love, though it is powerful, is imperfect. It is not magical, nor is it flawless, nor is it foolproof, nor does it always conquer all.

Love is the desire to nurture, but it does not always translate to actually, properly nurturing. It is possible for those in love to still behave like total jerks, hurt those they love, not be compatible with their beloved, and whatnot because sometimes, we don’t know how to love. Sometimes, we forget how to love. Sometimes, love just isn’t enough. The list goes on.

Like us, our love is imperfect.

Thus, I believe that true love is “the wish to generously and honestly tend to what pleases us”, but it is also in no way perfect, universally beneficial, or always productive of actual growth.

That is why we must handle it well. Only in doing so and not relying solely on its mere existence can we truly reap its benefits.

At its core, love is simply the desire to nurture beauty.