What Is Love?
July 9, 2008Having a spectacularly boring day, I decided to be at the crazy ridiculous mode (as if I ever functioned in other modes, noh?) and flood my instant messenger contacts with this question:
What is love?
The answers can be quite revealing. See for yourselves.
nightdreamer: what is love?
starrynight: uhm
starrynight: love?
starrynight:
starrynight: hehe
starrynight: something that can give you a feeling of happiness:)
nightdreamer: huh, but what if you’re happy about kicking someone in the balls? that’s love too?
starrynight: hehe:D
starrynight: yea
starrynight: love for pain
nightdreamer: you’re a sadomasochist. that’s all.
nightdreamer: what is love?
f4wannabe: love is when…..your reality feels sweeter than your dreams…:)
nightdreamer: huh so what happens when you dream of love? is that dream a better reality then?
f4wannabe: ahahahha….because you have sweet dreams but if your real life is sweeter than that then you are in love
nightdreamer: what is love?
farrylisher: anything that goes beyond reason.
nightdreamer: huh but isn’t hate like that too?
farrylisher: ok dagdagan natin (translation: ok let’s expand)
farrylisher: and give it whole-heartedly and expecting nothing in return?
nightdreamer: can’t you also hate wholeheartedly and expect nothing in return?
farrylisher: you can expect a fight after announcing you hate someone
nightdreamer: but what if that someone who hates you refuses to hate you back or at least fight back?
nightdreamer: that’s also nothing in return, right?
nightdreamer: and if you hate kris aquino do you expect her to pay attention to you?
farrylisher: well it depends on how you attack her
farrylisher: if you hit someone where it hurts.. they’ll fight back..
nightdreamer: doesn’t that work with love as well?
nightdreamer: if you hit someone where it hurts, they’ll love back?
farrylisher: bakit mo ba tinatanong? gagawa ka ba ng dictionary about love? (translation: why are you asking? You gonna make a dictionary about love?)
nightdreamer: is one not allowed to ask about love without making a dictionary about one?
farrylisher: or a tell all book about love. hehe
nightdreamer: yeah. is one not allowed to talk about love without making a book about love?
farrylisher: I’m not saying it’s not OK. I’m just speculating.
farrylisher: or joking.
nightdreamer: but not loving?
farrylisher: what?!
nightdreamer: you said you’re speculating. and then joking. but you deny loving?
farrylisher: speculating on why you are asking?
nightdreamer: is speculating on why one is asking about love what constitutes love?
farrylisher: I’m not asking about love you where the one asking?
farrylisher: or maybe you weren’t contented on what you know about love that’s why you are asking about it.
nightdreamer: can love truly be known?
farrylisher: well there are so many levels of love
nightdreamer: what’s that have to do with the question of if love can be known?
nightdreamer: and what are love’s different levels?
farrylisher: someone may like someone but for others like equates to love already
nightdreamer: what’s the difference between love and like?
farrylisher: I don’t know. I just based my answers on what I see
nightdreamer: is love seen?
farrylisher: You can see that through the person’s gestures, actions..
nightdreamer: what is love?
embee: love..love..love… i don’t know. basta love ah (translation: it’s just love)
nightdreamer: what is love?
lily: nighty?
nightdreamer: what?
nightdreamer: i merely asked what love is.
lily: hahaha wala lang (translation: hahaha nothing)
lily: naisip ko lang y? (translation: i just wondered why [you’re asking])
nightdreamer: so what is love?
lily: in what aspect?
nightdreamer: in general.
lily: its an emotion
nightdreamer: what is love?
downandunder: love - is when 2 people who cares for each other get confused
downandunder: are you inlove?
nightdreamer: huh that sounds kind of wrong.
nightdreamer: ah, but then again it may sound right
nightdreamer: but is love equal to confusion?
nightdreamer: isn’t confusion sometimes mere crisis of identity?
downandunder: haha , are you inlove
downandunder: are you writing an entry about love?
nightdreamer: evading the question.
downandunder: i suck wit love
downandunder: lol
nightdreamer: well love may involve sucking, so that’s okay.
downandunder: =)) loco
downandunder: seriously for me, love is a fairy tale like what you feel as soon as you meet
downandunder: someone that never dissipates, but grows stronger
downandunder: #:-S
downandunder: now tell me bro are you inlove
downandunder: i bet youre
nightdreamer: what is love?
bundle_of_joy: A strong positive emotion of regard and affection
nightdreamer: ang galing mo naman in love ka yata (translation: you’re so good at this, you’re probably in love)
nightdreamer: which means get the hell out
nightdreamer: what is love?
allmanbros: are you drugs???
allmanbros:
)
nightdreamer: what is love?
cokeandco: love is only a feeling
cokeandco: love is blind
nightdreamer: love is blind? how so?
nightdreamer: is blindness mere feeling then?
nightdreamer: since love = feeling, and love = blind?
cokeandco: i mean you dont need to be not blind to feel love
cokeandco: or something like that
nightdreamer: so why is love blind then?
cokeandco: i think it’s because people tend to love others no matter how he/she looks
cokeandco: or no matter how that person is physically
cokeandco: i’m just quoting songs
cokeandco: a lot of them have key definitions to what is love
nightdreamer: what is love?
michadelic: ?
nightdreamer: please answer. what is love?
michadelic: akala ko status ko yun (I thought that’s my status)
michadelic: haha
michadelic: it’s a lot of things
michadelic: haha
nightdreamer: cite examples of these “lot of things”
michadelic: just a sec
michadelic: need to do something impt
michadelic: hehe
nightdreamer: cop out!
nightdreamer: what is love?
PSG: hehe
nightdreamer: tinawanan lang o leche
(translation: he just laughed at me)
PSG: i have no concrete definition of what love is
nightdreamer: ok then what isn’t love?
PSG: can’t define it either
nightdreamer: what is love?
consumerist!: a word with four letters
consumerist!: love is also synomous with spending
nightdreamer: what is love?
burgskygees: senti?
“love is like a rosary.. full of mysteries.”
nightdreamer: wait a minute, where did you read that!
nightdreamer:
burgskygees:
)
burgskygees: from graffiti inside the men’s room
nightdreamer: what is love?
trendslimits: love is love
nightdreamer: boo!
nightdreamer: tide is tide
nightdreamer: what is love?
mister_eks: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/love
mister_eks: ayan 21 results
nightdreamer: please answer the question with your words, you randy ro.
mister_eks: in my opinion love is everything you do not do just for yourself
mister_eks:
)
Of course, some of them responded with something like, “So, Nightdreamer, you keep interrogating people with your ‘what is love’ musing. How about you attempt to answer your own question?”
nightdreamer: love?
nightdreamer: love is the hurt people most like to suffer from
nightdreamer: the struggle that may tend to look pointless,
nightdreamer: but isn’t.
nightdreamer: it’s all that’s needed to create an understanding,
nightdreamer: a harmony,
nightdreamer: and only with love can there be unity.
nightdreamer: not religion. not philosophy.
nightdreamer: it’s love that keeps people together.
Blech to my own answer.
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