The meaning of love
Love has many different meanings to different people. For a four-year-old, love is marrying her daddy when she grows up. For an elementary school kid, love is what he or she feels for his or her best friend, who also serves as a boyfriend or girlfriend. To a fifteen-year-old boy, love is what he should feel for his girlfriend of the moment, only because she says she loves him. But as we get older and "wiser," love becomes more and more confusing. Along with poets and philosophers, people have been trying to answer that age-old question for centuries: What is love? One definition of love in The Merriam-Webster dictionary is "attraction based on sexual desire" (439). Some people believe that love and sex are one in the same. If two people are in love, they should be having sex. And, on the flipside, if two people are having sex, they must be in love. However, this assumption is obviously not always true. Whether it is right or not to have sex without love is irrelevant; the fact is it happens. Just because a person is sexually attracted to another person and has the desire
The Merriem-Webster Dictionary. Third edition. Ed. by Fredrick C Mish. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 1997. Olds, Sharon. "Sex Without Love." The Norton Introduction to Literature. Shorter Seventh Edition. Ed. by Jerome Beaty and J. Paul Hunter. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998. 708. Levertov, Denise. "Love Poem." The Norton Introduction to Literature. Shorter Seventh Edition. Ed. by Jerome Beaty and J. Paul Hunter. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998. 613. Shakespeare, William. "[Shall I compare thee to a summer's day]. The Norton Introduction to Literature. Shorter Seventh Edition. Ed. by Jerome Beaty and J. Paul Hunter. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998. 612. Some say love is indescribable, and to some extent, it is. But the reason it is so hard to describe love is because love is so different for each individual. A person can look up the meaning of love in eighty different dictionaries and never find a definition that explains exactly what he or she is feeling. Love is wonderful, it hurts, it is great, it is happy; love is anything a person perceives it to be. So, th
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