Love me not

What is love?

According to Answers.com, Love is

1. A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.
2. A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance.
3. 1. Sexual passion.
   2. Sexual intercourse.
   3. A love affair.
4. An intense emotional attachment, as for a pet or treasured object.
5. A person who is the object of deep or intense affection or attraction; beloved. Often used as a term of endearment.
6. An expression of one's affection: Send him my love.
7. 1. A strong predilection or enthusiasm: a love of language.
   2. The object of such an enthusiasm: The outdoors is her greatest love.
8. Love Mythology. Eros or Cupid.
9. often Love Christianity. Charity.
10. Sports. A zero score in tennis.

And Google has about 2,560,000,000 result hits for love.

With so much information available to us about love, why is it some do not know what's love, many trying to get it right and all troubled by it?

Not surprisingly, most dictionaries have a rather wide definition of love. What's surprisingly is that they do not just cover all the different meanings, but also, placed them in the same exact order as a typical love's life cycle in a very typical modern relationship.

Allow me to show you the way.

1. A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.

This is where you are when you first discover a liking for someone, be it him or her. Ahh, the baby step of love, a feeling of sweetness and warmth... You keep thinking of her.. Thinking of what a perfect girlfriend she is... Thinking of your future with her in it...

2. A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance.

This is where you 2 start to get close to each other. Nature's wonderful reproductive mechanisms start kicking in. Your sexual hormones start having effect on your brain, allowing your natural instinct to slowly creep in.

3.
a. Sexual passion.
b. Sexual intercourse.
c. A love affair.

The peak of the relationship, some says... The stage where all the fun is, a handful says... To me, this is the worst stage in a relationship. Disgusting, dirty, smelly, full of funny bodily fluids (that includes perspire), lots of unnecessary physical activities. The immoral act, the forbidden act, some religions may say. Why Nature can't just provide us with a syringe? Just jab in and there it is done? If only sex is as easy as immunization. Sterile (clean), neat, classy, quick and elegant. Say good bye to STDs and failing condoms! If only life is a bed of rose, ...

For more information, go watch porn. Do not ask your teachers or parents, they will give you a 5 seconds ermm..., followed by a 5 hours worth of crap.

4. An intense emotional attachment, as for a pet or treasured object.

Luckily for most people (especially for females), most humans have a heart in them. In the event that they do not treat you as a disposable or a single-use item, there would be still some emotional attachment to you, hopefully.

5. A person who is the object of deep or intense affection or attraction; beloved. Often used
as a term of endearment.

Over time, usually after a few sessions of stage 3, the mutual feelings will fade. According to a few research articles which I read, the fading rate of female can be as high as a male or even higher. Of course, according to the statistics I have gathered, the occurrence of such a female is relatively low. One must note that the frequency of such occurrence is raising recently. Yes, I know you would say statistics is 75% lie. Unfortunately, this seems to fall under the 25% area, :D

6. An expression of one's affection: Send him my love.

Over even more time, it seems that he starts meeting you less, calls you less and messages you less. According to several long-running surveys conducted by us, the volume of "I love you" said by him is typically around 0-5 per month.

7.

a. A strong predilection or enthusiasm: a love of language.
b. The object of such an enthusiasm: The outdoors is her greatest love.

At this stage, be glad that he still occasionally call or message you and addresses you by your name.

8. Love Mythology. Eros or Cupid.

At this stage, be glad that he still knows about your existence and remembers vaguely the pronunciation of your name.

9. often Love Christianity. Charity.

At this stage, he is usually wondering why are you still hanging around him. The reason he's with you is just he sympathizes with you.

10. Sports. A zero score in tennis.

Over here, you can start celebrating if he realizes your existence as an entity floating around in this universe. If you believe in multiple universes and multiple dimension, be glad he realizes you are an entity.


That's all folks!

Start loving each other!

Cheers,
Maddie Ricola