Love is a universal language that transcends borders, cultures, and time. It’s a force that can bring joy but also pain. It’s a simple four letter word that’s hard to express, hard to feel, hard to give off, and complicated to deal with. An emotion so beautiful but so dangerous, it can turn a field of magic into a world of fire, but it can also go back.
Love is an emotion with different meanings; it comes in different forms, and perspectives. From having your first crush, to feeling your first heartbreak. From loving your family and friends, loving a hobby, a passion, or even things. To feeling jealous, finding the truth, and seeing the red flags: being treated wrong, used, and feeling sorrow.
Love starts with family. Family love is the type of love that gives us belonging, security, and support. Parents, the people who made us, raised us, cared for us, and loved us, but also the people that we have fought with. Siblings, the ones that we tell everything, the ones that we misbehave with and laugh about it. Grandparents, our second parents that cared for us when we were sick or who defended us after we got yelled at by our parents.
Family love has healed broken hearts after a breakup or a bad day. Family is always there for us, if it is by buying us gifts, helping out on homework, taking us on trips, or being there when we sign our first car or house. Most of the time, they are there to witness our life and show how much they care about us.
Friendship love brings out companionship, trust, and loyalty into the friendship. Friends are the people who stand by your side, they protect you, they guide you through the right path, they bring joy into your life; they bring the better person out of you and they make you feel like yourself when they are around. That’s love. A love so marvelous that can turn a friendship into family.
Love makes us feel butterflies in our stomach or make our palms sweat. It speeds up our hearts and can make us nervous. Romantic love makes us feel this way. It’s characterized by passion, attraction and desire for another person. Just knowing that they are there and them doing the little things makes us have a great feeling towards them.
If it’s either by receiving flowers, being comforted by your partner after a long day, receiving a long hug just because, or spending time together, it can also be expressed through sharing personal thoughts, memories, and feelings. If the love was truly powerful and real, it can lead to this soulmate to turn into your family through marriage.
Another type of love is feeling love towards our pets, our planet, hobbies and things. While some of these things are not living, like hobbies and foods, we still have an affection towards them. Like for sports, when we love it, we have passion towards it, we have the motivation and need to play it, improve, and have goals.
Having pets is like owning the world, especially when we receive them when we are younger. They are parts of our family, we take care of them and vice versa. They protect us, they improve our mental health and they care for us the same way that we care for them if not better.
Love is its own language, different for everyone and for their culture, but in today’s world, there are five different types of love language that are used around our society.
Words of affirmation express affection through words. Saying nice and comforting words, giving compliments, love notes, and cute little texts, show this type of love language. Quality time is giving individual attention or even spending time together in a meaningful way. Physical touch connects with physical affection, if it’s holding hands, or cuddling while watching a movie. Act of service, helping out if it is with the groceries, running errands, helping with homework for the young, or helping with the kids for the couples. Lastly, receiving gifts, expensive or cheap, bought or handmade, what matters is the time that they took to prepare for something nice and meaningful. The thoughts that they had behind the gift.
Although love is so wonderful, it can also lead to despair. Love can break your heart by losing a family member, losing your friendship with a friend, losing love for your hobby, and so much more. The most commonly known one is having your heart broken, not realizing your partner’s red flags and just being used, mistreated, or even manipulated.
Red flags are different in everyone’s perspective, but some can be things such as cheating, talking to other girls or boys (depending on gender and their likings) in a flirty way, being aggressive, distant, rude, forgetting important or little things that their partner has told them, and so much more.
We as humans create love, and we decide as individuals how it works, who receives it and how much. It’s a wonderful feeling that can bring pain, but in the end, it’s worth having our field of magic turn into a world of fire.