Love...

[Skylah]

I've been in love, I've been hurt and I'm in love again.. there's so many things we can say bout love but today I just wanna share this lyric.. the song by Nazareth, I used to listen... 'Love Hurts'

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds
Almost, any heart
Not tough or stong enough
To take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain
Love is like a cloud
Holds a lot of rain
Love hurts......ooh, ooh love hurts

I'm young, I know, but even so
I know a thing or two
And I learned from you
I really learned a lot, really learned a lot
Love is like a flame
It burns you when it's hot
Love hurts......ooh, ooh love hurts

Some fools think of happiness
Blissfulness, togetherness
Some fools fool themselves I guess
They're not foolin' me

** I know it isn't true, I know it isn't true
Love is just a lie
Made to make you blue
Love hurts......ooh, ooh love hurts
Ooh, ooh love hurts

[Akira]

in my eyes...half the time for love to work...you have to sacrafice alot of things
(ex. freinds,hobbies) but what you sacrafice most...is love...love for freinds and family. when you fall to deep...so deep you cant pull yourself back out until its over, you lose alot of time, thus making freinds stop hanging out with you, stop going to see ceartin far relatives, and then when your relationship is over...your either.
a) left with a broken heart, laying awake at night wondering what youre going to say to a freind you lost over the relationship, trying to get them to be your freind again.

b) so heart broken that you feel like comitting suicide,losing your sanity, and locking yourself in pitch darkness the rest of your life.

c)spending your life acting like you are your ex's freind when on the inside you want to cry missing the time you had together, still ignoring your freinds.

or d) all of the above, regaining your freinds...and living with the fact that you turned all of them down over the fact of love, and pondering for the rest of your life...if love is a good thing...or if love is pure evil. like i said last night...dont fall to deep for anyone unless your 110% sure that they will be next to you for the rest of your life.

[Selrahc the Evil]

I have something to say about all of this. You all are right love is both the greatest and worst thing in the world. I spent years of my life searching for it and I finally found it last year. Now it is gone again and I feel a void inside myself growing again. Even with all the things in my life that I have lost through out my life I have never felt a pain this great.
The only thing that I have left to say is:
"Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened."

[Ming]

Well said Selrahc...very well said. I don't think that love neccesarily requires sacrifice. I mean, I love my girlfriend, but that doesn't mean that I have to sacrifice loving my family, or my friends. Part of love is having the understanding that noone can love just ONE person. My friends and family understands when I want to spend time with my girlfriend. And on the same token, my girlfriend understands when I want to spend time with my family and friends. The same goes for hobbies. I play the card game Magic, and the people that I love, even my girlfriend, understands when I want to just go play for the day. I mean, it has certain limitations. I've read about people who have lost girlfriends/wives because of being overobsessed with Magic, and that's just wrong. It's a two way street, and involves more understanding than sacrificing.

And B, I'm glad I could help...even though I'm not ever completely sure of what the hell is was that I wrote.

[reaper]

If a love is true it will never fall apart, to often people confuse love with a multitude of things. . . .But the sadest thing of all is how rare true love truely is

[Doot]

Love is a word that gets thrown about so easily and often time infatuation is confused with love.

I think you have to be completely at peace with yourself, truly happy with yourself, love yourself and then loving another and them loving you will be a very viable option for you.

Too often people are searching for someone to love and be in love with that they lose sight of the person they really need to love in the first place, and that is themself.

If you don't lov eyourself you can never expect someone else to fully reciprocate the same emotions you want to spill into them.

It's the infatuation with being in love ratehr than love itself that gets lost. If you forsake friends and family for the sake of loving anothe rperson then that is destruction of yourself done at the hands of yourself and the person you are infatuated with.

True love is the understand that the other person is not the Alpha and Omega of your world, you are. If you invest all your soul into one person, when they are gone, you are left with nothing and your idea of love is skewed for anyone else afterwards. You'll set standards for your love, conditions that will get harder and harder to cope with as you go along.

If you take a moment and forget the pursuit of being in love and finding that person, take a deep breath and just be happy with yourself, alone, then it will be easier to find someone else out there you will WANT to share your ife with as opposed to NEED to share your life with.

Never rely on someone else to live your life, be it through "love" (infatuation) or them making decisions for you, because after a while you will truly see how lonely you really are.

[GAAZ]

*sniffle* I think Doot just broke up with me.

[Righty The Wonder Ghoul]

love rarely exists in todays world. there is lust and infatuation, and sexin up for lack of better terms, but rarely is there anything else. its unfortunate, but true, for all the previously stated reasons. occasionally someone will get it, but those people are truly lucky, and few and far between (look at the divorce rates).

[Ming]

I think the inherent problem here, with regards to divorce rates, is that people are way too impatient nowadays. It also says a lot about love and people in general. Too many people wait too long to get out there and try to find someone, and before you know it, they start getting older and panicking, and get married to the first person they are "in love" with, without really thinking things through enough. Most times, they probably don't have true love. And I think the problem, or one of them, with people waiting around too long is that for some reason people seem to think that when you're young, you can't possibly know what love it, or what you want. I mean, this is so far what I've personally seen. If a 17 year old falls in love with his girlfriend, and she falls in love with him, TRULY in love, and they want to spend the rest of their lives together, people seem to look at it funny. Sorta like, "You're only 17, how can you POSSIBLY know what you want or who you love?" Then people start flooding their minds with crap like, "Oh, you should experience other people before you get too involved in something." What the hell is that supposed to mean? I mean, if I'm in love with someone to the point where I want to spend the rest of my life with them, why the hell should I have to experience other people? What's it going to prove? Pretty much nothing, and the only reason people say this is because everyone seems to have it ingrained in their heads that sex = love, which is HIGHLY invalid. If you love someone, sex shouldn't matter. And if you decide to not trust your instincts to love someone just because someone else is "better in bed", then you weren't really in love in the first place.

As usual, that is just my opinion...

~Ming

[Therin]

My Grandmother got married when she was nineteen. My grandfather is dead now, but she tells me she doesn't regret a single moment of their forty-or fifty-some year relationship. My father was born when my grandmother had just turned twenty. I'm 18, I turn nineteen in February of next year, and my grandmother has just turned 69. I'm starting to ramble, but my point is that yes, it is possible to find love, even as young as nineteen. I'm living with the proof.

I do not know whether I have found true love with Lan or not, because I do not think I am experienced enough to know. I have been brainwashed by the media and all, and I freely admit it, but mostly, it's me. I am a skeptic, and a pessimist to the end, and I cannot help worrying about everything I do or hear, and what it might mean with regard to our relationship.

...And now I have to stop being depressive. I can't keep it up, because I'm going to see Matrix: Revolutions tonight!
*dances*