How To Love...

Love - an intense feeling of affection / a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone / a great interest and pleasure in something / to like very much

Love.

fondness, appreciation, warmth, intimacy, attachment, devotion, adoration, passion, desire, lust, affection.

What defines love. How do we know we're feeling love. Does loving someone mean you're comfortable with them? Does it mean you want to be with them? Does it mean you can't be without them?

What is love. Is there one kind of love? Does that feeling of not knowing, waiting for him to call waiting for a sign constitute love in it's entirety? Is love the feeling of unity and security in family? Is love the near sibling relationship between best friends, inseparable and incomplete without each other? Or, is love something utterly different?

How to love, and how to let love go. One in the same really; if you consider how difficult it is to love - to put your feeling in the open, trust in another flawed being, and give everything you have. Compare this to how complicated it is to let love go - cut ties, leave feelings to disintegrate back to nothing, accept a future wildly different than what's become normal, and breathe, feel, think, decide for one person again.

Love. It's a word people use for a lot of things; we throw it around to the point that it's lost it's meaning. Love. A word I can't seem to find in myself to say to very many people, including family. Love. A mystery of heart and soul, a gift, a blessing, a puzzle, a secret, all the while wholly transparent.

Love is infinite/everywhere/nowhere/undefined.

- xx, Kelly.