What is Love?

According to the dictionary the word love is described as a

strong, positive emotion of regard and affection. Love is the most powerful emotion
a human being can experience. The strange thing is that almost nobody knows what
love is.

Throughout this essay I will try to explain if it is true that ¨ love is going to give us
happiness¨ and the meaning of love further tan the dictionary.

Some people believe that there is no such thing as “true love” they believe that love
is nothing but an illusion designed by social expectations. These people believe that
love ultimately turns into pain and despair. This idea in some ways is true. Love is
not eternal as vampires it will come to an end one way or another, but the aspect
that separates true love from illusion, is the way love ends.

However, other people think that love is the most powerful and magical force and
that's going to make us happy. It is also said that the most formidable thing in the
universe, and that there would be nowhere else it could discover and display its
beauty and wonders more, than in an intimacy relationship between two people. It
is said to be invisible and cannot be measured yet so powerful enough to be able to
transform someone in a moment and give you so much joy than any material
possession one could ever have.

As Epicurus ( Ancient Greek philosopher ) said, if you fell in love it could be a

roller-coaster ride between ecstasy and exquisite happiness on the one hand, and
disappointment and the agony of loss on the other. It was just too disruptive, took
over your life, could involve jealousy, misunderstandings and furious argument.

In another hand, without real love, we get miserable but with it our happiness is
genuinely true. And this is not the kind of happiness we get from money, sex or
conditional approval, it's also not the same as the feeling that we get from
entertainment or from getting people to do what we want, but this is genuine
happiness which is profound, a long lasting sense of peace and ful illment that will
deeply satisfy us and enlarge our souls. It doesn’t disappear when circumstances or
situations get worse. It preserves and even grows through sufferings and hardships.
This true happiness is our entire purpose to live and is the type of happiness which
can only be obtained and guaranteed as we ind real love and be able to share it
with other people. “With real love nothing else matters; without it, nothing else is
enough”.

In conclusion, what we have observed is that the foundation of our disappointment,

irritation, anger, resentment and even bitterness in our souls is not caused by the
people around us, but by lack of real love among ourselves. Understanding they say
is just a simple realistic assessment of how things are, but blame shows anger and
pain which can only bring harm to both yourself and others. The point is: If
someone doesn’t know how to love, don’t tell them but show them and sooner or
later they’ll begin to speak and understand the language of love.

Jana Aranguren Batx 1.A

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https://epicurus.today/epicurus-and-romantic-love/

https://youtu.be/i0p1bmr0EmE

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