Love

[elijahlee]

The last two poems we went over in the Egyptian poetry sections were about love. During our class today, we discussed love. We discussed its characteristics (whether it was easy to find or hard to find, whether it was real or fake).

I thought it was interesting how people had such varying opinions on it. Love to me seems like it is not easy to find. Also, I think that love is something that is not fleeting. It is there to stay, and stays around once you truly actually love something/someone.

So what do you guys think are some characteristics of love?

[juliekim]

I think love is a decision to make instead of some kind of fuzzy feeling you have in your heart. If you truly love someone, there needs to be some kind of action that shows that love. I can tell that someone loves me when I see them sacrificing their time and energy just so that they can help me. I can see it when they are willing to spend time with me to listen to what I'm going through, and I can see it when they are interested in what kind of thoughts I have and what kind of person I am. This isn't just for the romantic type of love we were talking about in class, but it goes for any type of relationship that I wish to have. If I don't love that person, and if that person doesn't love me, what's the point in having that relationship?

[sageda]

I agree with Julie. We sometimes minimize love to a mere feeling. Hugs, kisses, and good morning texts aren't love. Love is showing it in your actions. It's being able to sacrifice everything for that person. It's selfless. It's loving a person not because you want them to love you back but simply because you want them to be happy and you will do anything to make them happy. It's seeing all their flaws as perfections. It's being able to take all responsibility that comes with love and not second guessing it. I think it's silly when I see teenagers (and even young adults) talk about love when they probably don't have a clue. I don't either. I just feel like you'd really really know if you felt it. You wouldn't need to rethink it.

[cathysjun]

I also agree with you. I think that love stays around except that it changes in form. For instance I think it's like buying a new shirt. When you first buy it, you are so excited that you want to wear that shirt everyday. However as time passes, you get used to that shirt. It doesn't seem as great but that doesn't mean you hate it. Your love for that shirt just changed in form. You know that because if you don't have that shirt you look for it all over the house. So you just get comfortable. Your love for that shirt just changed in form. Overall I think it goes for the same with people and that is the biggest characteristic of love.

[joon]

I agree with Julie and Sageda. I think one major characteristic of love is sacrifice. Because you care about someone so much and you're happy with just being next to that person, you're able to sacrifice most of your time and effort in making them happy.

[jessicashim2013]

I also think love is not easy to find. "Like" and "Love" is different. Saying "I love you" is meaningless once he/she know that its not true. It would actually make me feel bad if I know that its a lie.
Like you guys said, love is sacrifice. We sacrifice our time and money to meet them and buy them things. But after giving up everything for that love, what would I have? Sacrifice, but we shouldn't lose ourself. Because once you lose yourself you wouldn't look attractive anymore. Love is important but doing your work at the same time is also important.

[ginayang]

It is hard to live with one person for 50+ years because of various conflicts such as cheating and personality differences. That's why I believe true love is commitment. When a person stays married to their one and only spouse for the rest of their life, it isn't because of a feeling or physical attraction. Those kind of characteristics go away after a few years of marriage. Couples spend 50+ years together because they promised on the day they got married that they will love each other even if one becomes sick or they become poor. So people commit to their wife or husband because of that promise.

[sammy576]

I think an important characteristic of love is just like Julie and Sageda said... sacrifice. I am no expert on love and seeing that almost only the girls posted... I definitely think love is an emotion I am definitely not fond with...

[franicaza95]

I think that the characteristics of love could be many but I think the main one would probably be strength. I say that strength is a very important because you have be strong to overcome bad moments that you have in a relationship and you have to be strong to understand anything the other person says to you. I mean now that I think about it there always has to be a little bit of everything to sustain a relationship with "true love"

[davidh]

well there has to have common thing in it.... loving each other? ... and maybe commonly liking something or having similar habit of characteristics? there has to be one similarity from these or there won't be any love i guess... this is just my opinion and there will be more things that has to be common.

[delmanykkfs]

Love is not only a relationship between a couple love is relationship between family and friends for example Gilgamesh show his love to his friend and he love his friend as a brother

[jinwooprk]

Well.. the most important characteristics of love I believe is trust and appriciation. As human beings, everyone is unique and therefore holds different values. This is why there is always fights and arguments between couples. when there is love between them, it is to understand and appreciate eachothers opinions and values. You cannot love by yourself because love is something that coexists in two people. Those factors I mentioned seems easy but as time passes, it gets really hard to keep it up. However, if you love someone, I believe trust and apprication got to stay with them

[hannahs]

I think one characteristic of love is dedication. It's being dedicated to the other person whether they are going through good times or hard times. When you truly love someone, you see all their faults but choose to love them still. You try your hardest to be there for the other person whenever they are suffering and dedicate yourself to lessening their pain by suffering with them. I think when you see someone you love going through hard times, you feel the pain too.

[Alam10kkfs]

We cant live without love, they said but i dont think so. Some people dont know that they truly need to love themselves before they expect people to love them. If you cant even love yourself, then why do you expect people to love you?. One of the example of love is that mother and son. And I think love is that when my mom harming my ears with her loud voice that sounds similar to ak-47, and make me do something valuable in my life.

[hafizh]

julie's post just really.....touched my heart..lol
for me, characteristics of love are a lot. such as sacrifice; because you'll put another person's happiness are more important than your happiness, you will do anything for the person that you love, you will sacrifice anything just to see the person that you love smile. and another charateristic of love is trust, its kinda funny because it reminds me of spongebob, he said "love is handing someone a gun and letting it point your head, believing that he wont pull the trigger." it means you give all of your heart and you trust him/her to not break it. the last thing, appreciation. when you love someone, you are not only love their 'good side', but everything about them, even its their dark side. you can accept it, and appreciate it.