Are You In Love?

How Do You Know?
By Kendra Kauenhofen

How do you know when you are in love? It's a question that people ask themselves all the time, all around the world. When we have been in a relationship for a certain period of time we start to think about the word 'love.'

What is it? How do I know when I'm in it?

Well, when I asked around I heard answers like, "You'll just know, it will feel right. It's that feeling in your gut that tells you that you cannot live without a person." Another person responded by saying, "Your mind will be set on him or her. Whether your working or relaxing, or doing nothing at all, that person will be the only one that you can think about. The only thing that enters your mind."

Well, I have a question that I haven't found an answer to just yet...how do we define love.

If love is a feeling, and if we cannot feel what each other feels, then how can we tell when people are in love.

I am in love. But I'm only in love by my definition. Maybe someone else who is in love is having totally different feelings than I am.

Love is not something that you should have to think about. It just happens.

If I could define love in one word, I would say that it is unpredictable.

It's scary, and being in love makes you completely volnerable. But sometimes, having so much to lose, is much better than having nothing to lose at all.

Dont worry about what anyone else calls love. Dont worry about what you hear you should be feeling when you're in love. Don't worry about any of the characteristics that people may give love. Love is all up to you. It's stronger than envy, it's stronger than sadness, and it's stronger than hatred. Love doesn't come from the soul, and it doesn't come from the mind. Love comes straight from the heart.

So who really cares if your heart thinks that love is something different than that of what someone else's heart thinks it is. I'd be more worried if you didnt have a perspective of your own.

Love. Laugh. Don't forget to cry. But most importantly, follow what you beleive. There is nothing stronger than the independence of you. Live it.

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