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Essay / What is love? The Things They Wore by Tim O'Brien
Have you ever felt the feeling of butterflies in your stomach or heard the expression "my heart skipped a beat for you"? As children, we grew up learning from our elders and experiencing new beginnings in life. Much of our knowledge comes from what we see and hear, rather than what we know. Many important decisions we make in our lives are related to what our feelings show us. Love is an important issue in our life because it motivates us in different ways. Love can show itself through emotions or even through actions. What is a valuable definition of love? A brief definition of love can be seen as a variety of different feelings or attitudes ranging from interpersonal affection to pleasure. In other words, to me, love is when two people share the same inner feelings, such as emotional and physical attraction towards each other. Love is an emotion that can be described as controlling a person's feelings by coming together through emotions, not being confused with friendship, and building itself like a puzzle. So how is love born? Love can be created through the emotions that two people share. For a good structure to be built, there must be a good foundation. Love can be seen as a puzzle corresponding to how each piece must fit together for the whole picture to be complete. Once completed, it can only be modified if a part is removed. A good foundation of love is built when people get to know each other and create strong bonds. Unity is important because it creates a bond of trust between two people. Although love can be strong in person, there are still people who can confuse it because of objects or even words. An example of this confusion can be shown in the novel “The...... middle of paper ......ain. As mentioned earlier, love manifests itself through emotions and controls our decisions as well as our thinking. Love is a great feeling when shared with another person. It can lead to better results in life and fill us with happiness and warmth. Sharing love with another person is useful to always have each other's help in facing problems and to be happy in life. Works Cited Plato: The Allegory of the Cave. A World of Ideas: Essential Reading for Academic Writers. 9th ed. Boston: Jacobus, Lee A. Bedford St. Martins, 2013. 865-77. Print.O'Brien, Tim. The things they carried. London: Flamingo, 1991. Print. Reis, Harry T. and Arthur Aron. "Perspectives on Psychological Science Vol. 3, No. 1, From Philosophical Thought to Psychological Empiricism, Part I (January 2008), 80-86." JSTOR. Internet. February 20. 2014.