Is it possible? True love? Can it happen? Tell me your story.
2007-01-27 20:53:21 · 13 answers · asked by skater 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
if you find someone that you love and couldn't possibly find yourself with anyone else or ever want to be with any one else then that's true love, true love is accepting him/her for who they are, regardless of their faults and idiosyncracies.
True love is not Romeo and Juliet.
True love is finding someone that you feel comfortable with that you can share anything with, true love is finding that other person that makes things make sense that brings light to the end of the tunnel.
True love is not one sided true love is loving someone wholely and knowing they love you the same way
2007-01-27 21:03:04 · answer #1 · answered by phantasmagoriajewellery 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. To paraphrase mythologist Joseph Campbell, love is when you see the counterpart of your soul in the soul of another, it is when you have the desire to really be one entity with that person. This, he explains, is why you would be willing to put everything, including your own life, on the line for that person without thinking twice about it.
But be careful. If you choose to do this with the wrong person, or even a person who's just barely the wrong person but is the wrong person in a significant way, and get involved for a long time, the inevitable breakup can be very painful. It can seem almost impossible to have to "unmake" the sense that other person made in your life.
However, (quoting more Campbell) what this pain really is is the other half of love. On the other end of the joy and happiness there is the true sorrow from losing your "other half". But, underneath all the anguish and the agony, he says, at the very ground level of your being, you are at bliss. "Parting is such sweet sorrow". Maybe it's because you are just in the whole thing. This is love.
2007-01-28 05:18:52 · answer #2 · answered by mike10 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I met my soul-mate when I was 16. Our story is way too long to write about It like this... The way we met is unbelievable... Anyway, we are so far away from each other (that will hopefully change soon), we hear each other like twice in a month, and we saw each other three times in two years (I'm 18 now), but if there's one thing in this world I'm sure of - it's our Love. And I know It will conquer all. I can't tell you how much I love Him.
There is true Love, believe me.
2007-01-28 15:19:28 · answer #3 · answered by Barbara V 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes!
My experience is such: I was never happy in love until i fell in love with myself.
When I was very young I had very little of self-respect and I thought I was not good enough for anyone to love me. Then what I realized was I was attracting men who also didn't love and respect themselves, so as a consequence they expected me to make them happy and I expected them to make me happy. It could never last.
The point is, you have to realize what a unique beautiful person you are. Feel good about yourself, notice good things about you and enjoy your own company, and achieving your own goals. Because in reality, your happiness should not depend on somebody else. Remember that.
You will probably get a sense of a very loving feeling inside on the level of your chest, and then just keep up the good work. Write down on a piece of paper what kind of person you would like to meet (character not physical, except that she or he has to attract you) and then be aware that if he or she is to love you and respect you, you have to love and respect yourself too, in order to attract such person into your life. And then before you know it...bang! It will be a very happy, fulfilling, healthy relationship. That's what I call true love. You are happy and you want to share your happiness with another person.
Cheers!
2007-01-28 05:21:51 · answer #4 · answered by ashvata 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it can. It happened to me. Only I spent a lot of time accepting it for what it was.
Luckily I came to my senses in time. Or maybe it was love that brought me to my senses...
I'd known him for almost a year... refusing everytime he proposed me. Going to the extent of not opening my door to talk to him as we are from different cultures.
Till one day, evening before my departure from his city (perhaps forever), he came and I opened thinking it was someone else... It'd been almost 4-5 months since I'd spoken to him. He requested me to go out with him (something I'd never done). He wouldn't give up and I thought, well what harm can it do. I went out... and then at some point while we were talking, I realised that I was a fool throwing what few people have the opportunity to find. While he spoke of his grandparents, I discovered that he was the one with whom I could spend the rest of my life...
What was strange... it was as if I never listened to what he was saying... I had a sort of out of body or whatever experience... It was as if my soul spoke to his and...
I love him and each day of my life I'm thankful to god for having given me this opportunity to love and be loved like this in this life.
Touch wood!
2007-01-28 05:08:05 · answer #5 · answered by Winter 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it depends on what your looking for, true love or artificial love. there is love for another for their spirit and their heart or, there is love for looks and the world's definition of love. True love comes from being comfortable with someone and looking beyond their appearance and artificial love is based on loving someone for their appearance. the only way to know is too search within yourself and think will I be happy with this person for all the right reasons, rather than for something superficial.
2007-01-28 05:02:49 · answer #6 · answered by future thinker 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. My parents were soul mates. Growing up it was amazing to see. All of my friends parents fought, and more then half were divorced. But my parents.. it was a fairy tale. But in reality.. that kind of love takes a lot of work. Give and take. You have to respect yourself to know you should be treated a certain way, and you should respect the person your with. Vice versa for them. Its rare but it can happen.
2007-01-28 05:01:17 · answer #7 · answered by Lynnix 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think love in the real sense of the word cannot exist..In the best case it is only a passion...and I also think that love at first sight is a nonsense
2007-01-28 15:03:08 · answer #8 · answered by Beauty isn't everything... 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is encouraging to see so many upbeat, optimistic answers here.
As for mine, yes indeed I think it's possible BUT very rare indeed as we are swayed most of the time by "looks" rather than substance.
2007-01-28 06:23:15 · answer #9 · answered by emiliosailez 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love IS happening all the time.
It's all a matter of perception.
2007-01-28 05:01:28 · answer #10 · answered by ontheroadagainwithoutyou 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋