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From: NOELLI S. BILLENA
Category: Philosophy of Love
Date: 14 Nov 2000
DEFINITION OF LOVE: I have always believed love to be enduring and acceptable. I still do. With regards to what i have experienced of love, I have encountered these two essential qualities of what love is supposed to be. I am not exactly sure how I did it but somehow, I know i have been enduring and accepting. But having this belief have made me more susceptible to getting hurt. Indeed, i was very vulnerable and did get hurt. But the positive side of it was that I have managed to rise up on my feet again and continue as it is, to be enduring and accepting.
HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN YOU ARE IN LOVE? The thought of "being in love" brings to my mind the love which most of us know and think of, that is, the romantic love; the boy-girl relationship. Like most of us, I guess, I am romantic. And being romantic, I know that I am in love when I constantly think of that person. When, just like in your article, that person is the last person I think about before I fall asleep and the first person I think about when I wake up. Corny but true. I know when I am in love when I am able to compose essays which are the only means of expressing myself. I know when I am in love when I want to watch that person without him knowing that I am watching him. I know that I am in love when even the sight of his car makes me smile. I could go on here. But most of all, I know that I am really in love when my heart starts beating fast and that I just find myself wearing a very big smile. :0)