Love...

Someone told me "I used to love you, but I then started thinking you didn`t love me back, so I got past it". That`s a load of bullshit. "Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.". Love asks for nothing in return. There`s no such thing as "I love you BECAUSE...". There`s only "I love you!". Just like there`s no such thing as "I love you BUT...". Love is PURE. Love is without reason. Love is when you don`t need the loved one to do anything to make you happy, but to be happy because he/she is happy. Love is when you don`t feel the need to change the person to suit your needs, but when you see them as the perfect person for you. As they say... "True love is knowing a person's faults, and loving them even more for them.". Whenever you need to change the person you "love", you don`t actually love them. You "love" what you COULD make`em, not what they ARE. And that`s not love. Loving what one could be after YOU CHANGE THEM, is loving someone else, loving an idea, an illusion. Also, to love is not expecting to recieve and getting mad when you don`t, but GIVING without expecting ANYTHING in return. To love is to ACCEPT even the bad traits of one`s character. To love is to FORGIVE even the biggest mistakes. They say "Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.". Are we to understand that if one`s love for you, fades away with time, it wasn`t as true as we thought? In my opinion, yes. For they also say "True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away". Which makes it clearer. We only fall in love ONCE in a lifetime. Love ain`t rare, as some, wrongly believe. Love is UNIQUE! "True love endures, if it does not, then it was never true.". TRUE love will never die, no matter what the person you love does, or for how long you`ve been apart. I`ve heard a lot of people say that one should move on, when they break up with the person they love. But then again "Only a person who has not felt true love can move on in life saying 'There are lots of other fish in the sea.'". And that`s a fact! Once you get to feel true love, you simply can`t get past it, no matter what happens. Atleast some people have the decency of admiting "I thought I was in love with him, but now that I met X I know what love actually is". Most have the audacity of saying "I loved you with all my heart. But now I love him...". There`s NO SUCH THING. That`s what distinguishes love from other feelings. Its UNIQUENESS. You can`t erase the love you have for someone, just to love someone else. Either you love, or you don`t. There`s no SECOND love. There`s only LOVE. Whenever you can get past it, it wasn`t love to begin with. Love wouldn`t be the SUPREME feeling, if it would just go away like any other feeling.