Lets talk about LOVE

LOVE, LOVE LOVE, what is the meaning of the word love, the word love is used in many conversations every day many times a day. You tend to hear people say I love him, I love her, I love my job, I love tennis, I love art etc. Today I read up on the word love in the dictionary and this is what they say the meaning of love is:

* a strong feeling of affection:
babies fill parents with intense feelings of love
their love for their country

*a strong feeling of affection and sexual attraction for someone:
they were both in love with her
we were slowly falling in love

* affectionate greetings conveyed to someone on one's behalf:
give her my love

* a formula for ending an affectionate letter:
take care, lots of love, Judy

* a great interest and pleasure in something:
his love for football
we share a love of music

* [count noun] a person or thing that one loves:
she was the love of his life
their two great loves are tobacco and whisky

Now looking at this I cant help but think to myself too many people use and abuse the word LOVE, I have been guilty of this in the past too, we all do it and there are people that still do it. People feel I am rude & stuck up when I stare at them blankly with no response when they use the word LOVE in a sentence. When I do this it is not intentional. My intentions are not to be rude or to hurt anyone, Its the simple fact that when they use the word LOVE in a sentence I cant help but wonder do they even know the meaning of love????

How can you tell me you love your boyfriend so much but you snoop inside his phone to see who he talks to or you gave your number to a guy you met on the weekend because he seemed nice and had a nice car???

or you love tennis but yet you have never been to a tennis match before and you only know 2 tennis players names???

or you love your girlfriend so much and shes the one although you've cheated on her twice & still play around with other females????

And another thing about Love the doesnt make sense to me is when people say we fell in love, how do you fall in love??? did you fall in to your heart or his/her heart? was he/her someone you did not like before?. I do not believe in falling in love with someone, I believe when you first meet someone love should be there from the beginning and eventually with time your love for each other grows. Just like how a flower blooms Love blooms, it increases in size, your heart increases in size, your feelings and passion increase inside.

The times my exes told me they loved me I believed it because I was simply naive and did not understand the meaning of love, it just felt nice to hear someone say it. People need to understand the meaning first before they use it but saying this they need to understand the meaning of the word INFATUATION which is really what my exes felt for me and vice versa. I believe if it was love we would still be holding on to each other and going on strong. So here is the meaning of infatuation:

* an intense but short-lived passion or admiration for someone or something:
he had developed an infatuation with the girl
I hope this is merely a passing infatuation

does this sound familiar????

Now to me all this I love my boyfriend, I love tennis blah blah is not love at all! I strongly believe in LOVE and I really respect the word and meaning. To me personally I believe to love something or someone means you appreciate, your passionate, your committed, you have faith in and you are dedicated to it. Love is a powerful feeling that you can not get out of your mind or heart, the feeling is so strong that you give your all to it, you do not give up on it, you trust in it. It excites you, it fulfills you, it completes you.

If you tell me you LOVE movies, Id expect you to know many actors names, you have a big dvd collection and you go to the cinema very regular. If you love acting Id expect you to be a performing arts student or you go to drama school regular, learn scripts, analyse actors and attend castings. If you tell me you love someone Id expect you to make a lot of time for them, communicate with them very regular, you grow with them and share with them. This is what LOVE really is!

Now because I believe strongly that this is what the meaning of love is Im sure people will find when I use the sentence LOVE it tends to include food, movies, God, my family and my unborn child.

Me and food are like best friends, I enjoy food so much that when people mention it or meeting up for dinner I get excited lol, I even eat what I have slight allergies too!. I am a movie fanatic! my dvd collection is ridiculous, I spend so much money on dvds that you would think my father owns hmv. God is my creator and without him I would not have faith or this life I live. My family are my everything! we are so close and the bond we have is really unbreakable!. My unborn child is the most amazing, precious gift I have ever been blessed with and is mine to cherish forever! These are the things and people I love and I say that because its true.

When you mention the word LOVE not only should you be true to who you are saying it to but be true to yourself, is it really something you love or is it an infatuation/phase?

Once you understand the real meaning of love and know what you really love things become much clearer to you, you know more of what you want in life and obviously it would be more of the things you love.