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Do you know what the colour of love is? What shapes and forms and sizes it comes in? Is it a physical quantity? Can you measure it? Can you buy it and sell it for commercial purposes? Is love a transaction? A mere attraction based on superficial qualities like my weight, or the colour of my hair?
"I don't believe in love. It's stupid. No one ever finds true love. It's all an act."
"I think love is the most beautiful thing to ever have graced the world. It lights us everything, and the reason we still exist is because we know how to love."
"I don't think love is real. I mean, what does it even feel like? If we weren't given a basic idea of how it feels like to be in love, would we have ever realized that this is love? Why is it even called love?"
"People talk about things like, "Love yourself first, the others will follow," and it always makes me wonder if spoiling myself with earthly wonders is what self-love is. Or is it hypothetical?"
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If I tell you that I disagree with any of these common opinions, it would be a lie. Love has a different notion for every being. I tried to search for a one line definition of the word, and it looked something like this: Affection and care, without any insecurity.
Now, that might feel like a stretch. I mean, let's be real, most of us have discarded the idea of love as something unfathomable and unreachable at some point in time. It's inevitable. I can't say I blame you. Love IS hard to come by, it's true.
Yet, sometimes, love remains hidden right beneath your nose. People may think that physical attraction is all there is to the first step to finding love, but a psychological study suggests quite the opposite. If you would allow me to make this a bit scientific: In 1985, evolutionary psychologist David Buss conducted an extensive study of the traits people rate as most important in finding a mate, and his finding was clear - The number-one trait people sought was kindness and understanding, and not the way they looked.
