But no, this is just about love, actually. I'm only eighteen, and I'm not exactly an expert on the subject, but I've seen enough to draw some conclusions about the matter.
So here are the three most important concepts I've observed about the love I've seen around me.
1. It's not really that complicated.
Everyone tries to complicate it, and I understand that there can be complex situations, but love itself should be simple and easy. I really believe that's how it's supposed to be, and I've seen it that way.
2. Nobody is too young to know what love is.
There are different types of love, and young love is one of them. Children can know what love is by watching their parents, or someone else's if you're like me. And teenagers can be sooooo....stupid. But they can also be in love. Albeit a young, dumb, naive love--totally different from the love shared by, say, an elderly couple--it's a love just the same.
3. It's weird.
It may be simple and easy at its finest, but sometimes it just doesn't make sense. It makes you feel weird things and do weird things and, most of all, say the weirdest things. Like, "I love you." It's weird. But that's one of it's greatest qualities, right?
So I've come up with an eclectic definition of the word after all I've seen and experienced of it. It's everywhere.
I see it in the way kids run to their parents when they get home. I look for it in the way parents watch their children when you hold and play with them. I hear it in Taylor Swift and Elton John songs. I listen for it when best friends laugh together. I smell it in gingerbread in the winter, flowers in the spring, cotton candy in the summer, and pumpkin in the fall. I taste it in hot chocolate on a cold day. I feel it in a blanket put on me when I've fallen asleep on the couch.
Because love is in so much more than we give it credit for. It's in the little acts of kindness. Doing things for others when no one asks you to, for no reason other than love. Cooking for someone when you hate cooking (and really have no business doing it because you're that terrible at it).
Love, I've been told and I'm learning, is putting someone else's needs and wants before your own. It's about putting up with someone's stubbornness, moodiness, craziness, etc. because, well, you love them anyway. It's still being amazed by someone every time you see them, even if that's every day. It's telling someone they are beautiful when they feel they are at their worst--and meaning it. It's doing the most embarrassing things just to see your favorite smile on their face. It's caring deeply about someone, even yourself--especially yourself, actually.
Don't forget to love yourself, too, because I mean, hello! Youda best! So have a cookie on me--and have yourself a merry little Christmas filled with blessings, service, joy, and a little love while you're at it.
Always,
Anna
Love, I've been told and I'm learning, is putting someone else's needs and wants before your own. It's about putting up with someone's stubbornness, moodiness, craziness, etc. because, well, you love them anyway. It's still being amazed by someone every time you see them, even if that's every day. It's telling someone they are beautiful when they feel they are at their worst--and meaning it. It's doing the most embarrassing things just to see your favorite smile on their face. It's caring deeply about someone, even yourself--especially yourself, actually.
Don't forget to love yourself, too, because I mean, hello! Youda best! So have a cookie on me--and have yourself a merry little Christmas filled with blessings, service, joy, and a little love while you're at it.
Always,
Anna
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