Love is learned through time. It is continuously being tested through the moments experienced by two people over the course of life. Love is created out of the joys, sorrows, accomplishments, and failures that lovers share. That’s what gives love it’s durability. Quick to fall in love, quick to fall out of love. It’s only as strong as what it’s been through… only as strong as what lovers make of it. Two people give birth to love–it doesn’t just fall on their laps. Then it strengthens, but in order for that to happen, love demands obstacles. It continues to grow, but in order for it to grow, it demands time.

Love takes time, but is quick to act–in rescuing, comforting, teaching.

True love between two people doesn’t demand reciprocity. Reciprocity is granted and lovers don’t doubt it about the other. In true love, people inherently realize the need to meet each other halfway.

Love isn’t selfish. It’s not an excuse to control other people. Lovers look out for the other’s best interest, but it doesn’t command. Two people in love shouldn’t command. Love isn’t about power.

People long for love’s ability to heal. Undeniably, love does heal but in their fixation on finding this love, people mistake love for something perfect.
Love isn’t perfect. When a person falls, love is there to try to pick them up. When a person makes a wrong decision, love is there to try to make it right.Love tries. It’s compromise.

Love is understanding… understanding that two people in this world are entirely different. Despite how similar two people believe themselves to be, they aren’t completely. Sure, love between two people is a union, but it’s a union based on support and understanding. Love is understanding that the other person has their own set of goals, dreams, and values. In their union, lovers endure and help each other in accomplishing their separate dreams. Lovers don’t agree all the time–they don’t have to. A conflict of interest shouldn’t be answered by one person completely yielding to the other. Love and growth involves–needs conflict. Fights are inevitable, but love doesn’t ask “How do we avoid fights?” It could fight violently and instead asks, “What do we do to solve this?” Love communicates and seeks to open minds. Love educates.

Love is too much. There’s a thin line between love and a lot of things, and because of that, love makes people stupid and foolish sometimes. Hell… I’m foolish.

Love is faith, trust, passion, friendship–to say the least. Love lives and is formed out of everything life throws at it. Love is beautiful but is built out of pain at the same time… has to be. It’s dualistic–it can’t exist without the bad.

I think God made us feel love down here on Earth to teach us how to be better people and to help us realize that we are capable of becoming better people through the help of others.

You don’t question love if you feel it–it’s too deep….
you just know.