To Truly Love

Love is a simple concept, yet we make it out to be so complicated. We sit here and try to figure love out instead of actually loving. In the English language, though, we have distorted the word greatly when it was already difficult to understand. When we speak of love, it could mean brotherly love, friendly love, or romantic love. Other civilizations were a bit more knowledgeable when it came to creating their language. They made sure the idea of love wasn't summed up in one word. It really is quite vague when I say something like brotherly love. What do you mean brotherly love? I mean love like that towards a brother. And how is love toward a brother? I honestly cannot go on; to explain it is beyond me. Most of us get the gist of what someone means when they say brotherly love. That is because most have siblings. I do not, however I believe I know what it means because I feel this love toward my best friends and some family members. I have a friendly love toward everyone, but don't ask any questions about that--that's a whole different blog. And I can say that I have romantically loved.
Romantic love is the one people find hardest to understand. Not it's meaning, rather whether or not they truly romantically love someone. Another way to say romantic love would be "in love". So then I should say: People have trouble understanding whether or not they are truly in love. My point in this is not to tell you how to fall in love but to know when you are in love. The only way I know how to explain being in love is by telling of all of the things it is not. 99 percent of the time, anyone under 16 has never fallen in love and doesn't quite understand love yet. No one will ever fully understand love, but some understanding is required to actually know whether you are in love or not. I am one of that one percent by a hair. I say 16 because I see it in most adults and people my age as well; this, i feel, is the time when we really begin to grasp love. My percentage could be wrong, but I don't feel like very many people at all do fall in love before 16. Young people get crushes, which are related to love in absolutely no way. Young people also become infatuated, which can become love if given time. To fall in love is probably something rare for us young people... but it is possible for us. Especially once we have been opened up to it. I don't know what else there is to say really, but when you fall in love, you completely click with the other person in every possible way or in no way at all. You love, simply, and truly, because you do.