What is love like? Describe it. Be creative. I can only imagine.?

Answer 1

For an analogy love is like a roller coaster really. The anticipation of it all as you climb that steep hill - then the utter thrill of the drop, then it slows down, becomes less exciting and when the trip is over you feel dissappointed that it was so dang short.

Answer 2

A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.

After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.

Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.

I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.

I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.

If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.

I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.

Love and blessings

Your brother
don

Answer 3

Love is... sweet words that make you feel like chocolate,
feeling of one of the flowers that was just collected from that person and smelled by, touched and seen,
the harmonious music that acts like a wind lifting you up and taking you to your loved one,
your first kiss,
the intention to imagine and create art,
admiring that persons soul and thinking,
agreeing with every word and even knowing what the next is going to be...
i don't have the time to describe it fully, it will be an endless book.
Now you can imagine....

Answer 4

This is all in my opinion, but ill be as creative as possible...

The first three types i believe stem from biological reasons:

Love between partners (male and female):
This feeling can be best described as a strong feeling of companionship with another individual. It is between the male and female of a species and allows for them to remain with eachother and to mate and support the offspring. Often very needy people feel a sudden burst of self esteem because they all of a sudden feel "lucky" or "worthy", but this is not the pure form of love resulting from partnership, moreso quirks of human psychology.

"Brotherly" love:
This is the love of loyalty and trust, most strongly felt would be very closely bonded friends (usually between males) even if you argue and fight with them, you are there for them. Some guys would even take a bullet for each other. This is also biologically linked to males who go out hunting in the wild, who need to place alot of trust in eachother (their lives essentially) and live with eachother in difficult conditions for extended periods of time. This feeling is also very important on the battlefield and is the basis of "honour".

Parental love
This love is felt most stronlgy between a mother and her children (or sister and siblings). No matter what the children do, true parental love will mean that the mother will nurture for and sacrifice everything for her child, and comfort them in need. It is the essence of "unconditional love". This has biological foundations as well. Our whole species was dependent upon being nurtured as young, so they could grow up to be very cooperative with their group, and thus successful as a species.

The last type is the most absolute, most meaningful:
The last type is what i call the real love, the ultimate love, the meaning of love. Imagine realizing that that everybody you see is exactly the same person as you (only they grew up differently). It is thus impossible to be selfish, and impossible to have the desire to mistreat others. The feeling is best described as a feeling of "oneness". It also brings much greater meaning to life and above all it will remain permanantly with a person who has understood it fully. It applies to everybody, and every living thing - not just specific individuals that one interacts with or that one finds physically or mentally desirable. It is a very balanced and sustainable love, and it is not over the top, and it is impossible for you to give more than you take!

Answer 5

You know it when it comes. No warnings, no preparation. It is what can't be described no matter how hard people try. It blows the myths and create its own universe. It's not there if you say it more than you feel it. A lot like silence.
It can be theoretical or even take shape. It can be just inside or everywhere. It's a matter of perceiving things differently than usual. It can be anything you want it to be.

Answer 6

Real love is very unselfish, yet it has to be respected and not abused. Love is reflected in love, if those involved have a large capacity to love.

I have loved my children, stayed up all night many times, seeing them through a fever. The relief and gratitude to see them happily playing again is indescribable!

I have been and still am in love with a man.

Our dating love was filled with tremendous passion and...well, it's amazing how totally crazy in love one can be. Their skin is electric, every word, every movement is looked on with a swoon, a sigh...everything about them is just perfectly wonderful!! You want to climb inside them and stay there forever. Suddenly, all poetry, all love songs, all romantic movies...it makes so much sense because you are experiencing it!!!!!!!!! Oh, wow!

After ten years of marriage, great love and continued affection is there. Roots and history together has gone down deep. There is still passion and appreciation, but it not so frantic...very sweet.

Your humor, stories, habits, likes/dislikes start to blend and you like it. You share the love of your children and your pets, value your home. You go through the great and not so great times and the affection and love goes deeper! It's pretty amazing. Much is impossible to put into words.

Answer 7

Peace and contentment
Unselfishness and caring for another
Warmth and harmony in each other's agreement
Sacrifice of self for the greater good
Constant and loyal
Pure and enlightening
The connection of souls and bodies
Where God can participate
As the flame that keeps hearts lighted
Like the sunlight that makes plants grow
...and people, too

To give love is to have it in your heart
To be loved is to know a miracle
To love unselfishly is the essence of the Divine

Answer 8

Your attempting to convert An Abstract into Metaphor - which is an abstract as well but - its "Potential to help you understand " - Love is much more than that of the word / Abstract concept of Love.

So this is an attempt to understand what love is.

See if you can get your hand on - "Art Of Love" - By French Psychologist - Eric Fromm

I think we can understand "highly abstract concepts" is we ask "How do we do it?" so if you ask :

1>> How do we Love (some one / thing)??
2>> When some one loves some one/thing which are the things he or she has done /will do for that person /thing(possibly object of interest)???

Answer 9

Love is like a candy and icecream cheeseburger.(I'm a vegetarian.) I love the candy and icecream...but not with a cheeseburger. It's also like skydiving off a rollecoaster. It's exciting at first, but when you're about to crash headfirst into the ground and find out you don't have a helmet or parachute, you begin to have second thoughts.

Answer 10

Want us to title your book also? Love can not be fully comprehended my the mind, with its duality. You must take your mind into your heart. Once the mind is trandscended you will experience unity with God in unconditional love within your heart. When you return to normal state you will not be able to fully discribe your experience. Love is God himself. Love is a total giving, expecting nothing in return. Love,God, humility, silence, will, power etc. As the colors of the rainbow are contained within sunlight, so to are all things contained within the light of Gods unconditional love. Most people see with duality, mind and emotions. Then emotions are further divided into a myriad of conditional love, hate, fear, courage, anger, elation, etc. You must attain your own experience, then you will know that the essence of your own being is unconditional love. From Love, To Love, With Love. whistle britches