the outside is but a mere image, the inside is were the true being dwells.

Yep.Life really is like a box of chocolates.

and I really am a fuck up.

Yep. Is it gonna be a nice chewy chocolate creme, or a disgusting coconut?

Yes, many times we don't wear our thoughts on our sleeves. Its all inside, and thats why true love is scary, because you're leaving yourself totally vulnerable to the other person. That is one of the largest barriers there can be between two people...admitting love...

Its also very hard to figure out if thats what you're feeling.

because who can define it? really?

You can only define it for yourself...like a lot of things, its something everyone is going to have a differing opinion on and you're not always going to get it right. I was a nonbeliever in love until...well...lately. You can only define it for you. Maybe others' opinions will help you realize something, but generally, you are the only one who can figure it out.

My philosophy on love... See my signature... 2nd from bottom...

Love..
Well does anyone know what love really is? Can anyone say the true deffnetion of love? Really it depends on how a person views love and how that person inteerpuits love. To me love is a feeling that you can't touch or don't know when or how it is going to happen. The hardest thing is to admit that you are in love when you think that you are in love.

ok, try that one again... with a spell checker and a logic function.

Actually, it made sense.

Translation:

Well, does anyone know what love REALLY is? Can anyone give the TRUE definition of love? Really, it depends on how a person views love, and how they interpret it. To me, love is a feeling that you can't touch or don't know when or how it is going to happen. The hardest thing is to ADMIT that you are in love when you think that you may be.

I think that made it a little easier...

Thank you lol.. I know I know I cannot spell very well.... Sorry if it didn't make any sense when I wrote it. Sometimes it's hard for me to say exaly what I want to say and it come out right. Do you know what I mean?:metalhead

Very much so. I can never exactly TELL my girlfriend how I feel...sorta different, though similar. Can't express myself, though I feel amazing...

i believe in love, but i also believe that TRUE LOVE can exists only once, for if one was to TRULY Love someone then fall in love with other people then one of two things happens: a) you try to acquire that same LOVe you once had; or b) you surpass that LOVE and find a love that becomes TRUE LOVE

i also believe that it is possible to love someone without sex or kissing, grenated this kind of love might be boring and unhealthy in some way, but it is also a love and pure

if you love someone, truly love someone.....would you be upset if they fucked someone else? what is lust compared to love?

I think I would be more hurt then angry with the person for having sex with someone else. If that person truly loved you thenthat person would wait for you and not go off having sex with other people even if it meant nothing to him and it was just lust. DO you know what I am trying to say?

I would be upset. Why? Because she isn't being true to me. Because everything she had spoken would have been a lie. I don't know what my reaction would be in terms to the relationship, but I suppose that if she could truely win back my trust, than things would be fine...

But thats a hypothetical point of view. I know for certain that I wouldn't have to worry about that sort of thing from my girlfriend.

Lust is not love. Lust is nowhere near love. Lust is the "I love YOUR BODY" level. Love is "I love YOU" level. And I don't mean "I love you" in the way its just said; I mean actual LOVE. There are...certain parts of my girlfriend that I find attractive. But I love and respect her as a person above all else, before any other part of her. Like Mr. Rogers said, "Its you I like..."

I agree that love can be love without sex. Don't know about kissing. I suppose...though THAT would be unhealthy. But sex isn't important. In many cases, it only serves to complicate things.

VERY VRERY well put!

*bows*

Thanks...

I feel you can also lust for love, I think that would possably be the process of having a crush.
Love would be the deep affection and unity felt between two people that have some qualities that they find attactive in one another.True love is merely a deep love with few or no false perceptions of that other person.

There are so many kinds of love:

The love a parent has for a child, the love a child has for a parent...

The love between siblings and cousins, aunt's, uncle's, neices, nephews...

The love between friends, girl to girl, guy to guy, girl to guy...

The love between spouses, lovers....

You cannot define all these, but they are there, they are real, and they are unescapapble no matter how hard you work to run from them.

actually,the greeks DID define them all... platonic, phillial, erotic, etc.