What Is Love?

Conclusion

So what is love?

It's something that I've never known.

I never had a boyfriend before Austin.

Maybe I should clarify.

When I talk about love, I don't mean family love.

That doesn't really count.

A family's love in unconditional.

You can't ever get rid of family love.

Yes, you can be shunned from your family, or kicked out, or anything that doesn't seem like love, but there is love.

Whether you or the family member doesn't want to admit it, there's still love.

Like I said, it's unconditional and you can never get rid of it.

Maybe you don't agree with me, that's fine, I never said you had too.

This is how I see it.

But, what I'm talking about is real love, true love.

True love, from someone other than family.

I also don't mean love from a best friend or their family, because in all honesty, if your best friend is really your best friend, then their family becomes your.

I mean love from a significant other, a soul mate, a husband/wife, and boyfriend/girlfriend.

In the end, I finally knew what love was.

That night, after I almost told Austin that I loved him, I remembered that I almost said it too him.

I knew that he had heard me too.

He even told me not to say it.

Now, he didn't tell me not too, because he didn't feel the same way, he just didn't want to say it because of why I was saying it.

I was saying it because I thought I was about to die. I thought that I was never going to see him again.

But as I sat there later that night, in Austin's arms, watching a movie with everyone, I realized that I really did love him.

I knew that if I had managed to finish saying it and I didn't die, I wouldn't have regretted it.

I know for a fact that I wouldn't have.

My definition of love, true love, is doing anything for them, even if it means your life.

See, Austin came barging in, knowing that Sissy had a gun, knowing that he could have gotten shot, but he didn't care.

He knew I was in trouble and that I was about to die.

He knew it and that's all that he could think of as he barged in, saving my life.

He put his life in danger just to save mine.

He was being selfless.

I say that, that's true love.

I know that I would have done the same thing if I had been in his shoes.

I would have barged in, risking my life just to save his.

Sadhu Vaswani once said, "True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice."

THE END