FORBIDDEN LOVE

THE PINK TEDDY BEAR

Still Jasmines POV

Everyone at some point in their lives has experienced love, whether they were loved or have loved. Love seems to be the main underlying goal that we all strive for in our lifetimes. It is the one thing that we all, as humans, have in common. There are many different types of love: family love, friendship love, conceptual love, and intimate love. Many people have a hard time finding words to express this intense feeling because everyone's experience and meaning of it is different. The thing is that with love, it is not positive or negative; it seems to have its ups and downs. However, we still go throughout life searching for it, without ever giving up.
Family love is unconditional, meaning it is timeless, and everlasting. It is a feeling shared between a young girl listening to her grandfather stories of the olden days. It may even be the strict rules that a parent enforces, that a child feels are unfair. The great part of this love is that you can be yourself, make mistakes, and you will always be forgiven.
The love shared between friends is similar, but there are boundaries not to be crossed. These boundaries are different with each friendship, but are usually somewhere along the lines of, not messing with each other's boyfriends or bad mouthing behind each other's back. Friendship love knows that you have someone there to talk to, especially about things that you could never tell your parents. This type of love is sharing your experience of your first crush in elementary school. Even taking blame for a childish act that your best friend committed, such as stealing a pack of gum from the convenience store.

This was a really hard subject to write about. I tried looking for definitions of love on the Internet, in self-help books, poems, the dictionary, but I couldn't find just one definition. I realized that there is no one definition for love. Everyone has their own ideas and definitions about what love is and means to them. When I looked up "love" in the library, the page came up with a hole bunch of things such as attachment, first loves, friendship, intimacy, marriage, summer love, etc. The same thing happened when I looked on the Internet. In these next few paragraphs, I will write about different people's meanings and ideas on love.

The definition of love in the Webster's dictionary means many things. As you will see, it has a lot of ideas on what love is. "An intense affection for another person based on familial or personal ties. A strong affection for or attachment to another person based on regard or shared experiences or interests. An expression of one's affection: send him my love. An intense attraction to another person based largely on sexual desire. The deep affection, tenderness and concern felt for a person with whom one has or wishes to have a relationship based on sexual attraction. Sexual intercourse. A love affair. An intense emotional attachment, as for a pet or treasured object. A strong enthusiasm: a love of language. Eros or Cupid, the god of love in classical mythology. The feeling of benevolence, kindness, or brotherhood towards others." As you can see there is not just one definition, there are many.

When I looked on the Internet I found many poems on love. This certain poem, is based on the love in your self and in relationships. The poem is called "The Definition of Love"

yes!! yes!! perfect :) natapos ko na yung essay ko and I guess magugustuhan to ng prof namin.. hahahaha ang dami ko talagang alam sa Pag-ibig naiyan ehhh .. lahat na experience ko na :0 I was so haapy and then I decided to sleep when my eyes caught on something .. THE PINK TEDDY BEAR :( iT WAS 3 YEars way back then nung ineregalo to sakin ni JERON.. which is memories nlng lahat.. and sa lahat ng ibinigay niya, Itong PINK TEDDY BEAR NALANG ANG NATIRA.. IT DOESN'T COST A THING BUT It GIVES ME THE MOST. </3