A simple word with a complicated meaning. To be honest, love doesn't really have a meaning, at least not in our generation. I believe it is used more as an excuse than as a word to express how you feel towards someone. Personally, I believe that love does not exist; it is only used; it is not felt. People say that love is an emotion, so why do they use it? Why aren't they feeling it? I don't believe anyone has ever felt love; yeah, they may have felt their hearts racing and their stomach churning when they saw the person they have developed feelings for. They experience the emotion known as desire, the first step in the process of feeling love, a desire to gaze upon, feel, and touch the person. Then there's a desire to feel their skin beneath their fingernails. Then there's attraction, which kind of interrupts the whole process of experiencing love because you don't feel want or longing for them, you simply feel attracted, only to how they seem, not to who they are. Finally, there is doubt, the emotion that completes the entire process of love. They have doubts about themselves, their loves, and us. That, of course, is the end of love. And because they allow uncertainty to consume them, they effectively terminate the process of experiencing true love, which is why they never experience it in their lives. I assumed this was only for this generation. Why do I believe that the previous generation felt love? Because if you compare the ancient couple sitting on the bench looking into each other's eyes with such unfathomable emotion to the young couple sitting across them on their phones, you can tell they don't experience a strong emotion, all they feel is lust or maybe even attraction.
Love is an unexplainable emotion that hasn't been felt in centuries.
- aanijian
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AcakThis is not a story. It's about what I experience, perceives, and observe. Grievances that cannot be expressed all the wounds caused, are all here and read, not just about myself but for others as well.
