Love

Love is a sticky subject, there is no straightforward answer to what love is. To some it's a feeling, others it's a knowing, and others it is simply a look. Although it is a common knowledge it isn't the same for every one. Mothers fall in love with their children the second they lay eyes on them, and a couple can have been married for 50 years and their love is just known as an understanding.

I am not speaking form experience in those two examples at all. I'm a 20 year old woman that has never been married and kids are a long way down the road; but I have been in love, and know that there are different meanings.

Love changes through the course of ones life. I often like to think in a perfect world it would be like Brad Paisley's song Then, love is constantly growing in an upward direction. In some ways this is true, and others it is not. It's been discussed in psychology many times over that love has just as many peaks as it does valleys. But many people believe that you can't truly know if you love someone unless you have been to hell and back with that person. Yet sometimes that hell can be a long and windy road that is hard to come back from, who really knows where the end of this so called hell is; or if there ever really is an end. Life is a constant state of struggle. Very rarely is ones life completely stagnant, they are always growing, moving, and changing. So does love grow and change with you?