Love
It is difficult to define love, but if there is a word that
characterizes it, is the word genuine. To love is to genuinely care, to
genuinely like, to genuinely want to spend time with the loved one and genuinely
don’t want to lose that person.
To genuinely sacrifice yourself.
Sacrifice, here's another word that defines love. Sacrifice
is to harm yourself, or put your own life in danger, or act to the detriment of
your own interests for the benefit of another person, in love’s case, the loved
one. This is the most noble aspect of love, and at this very moment a large
proportion of the world population is sacrificing itself for love.
Love is wanting to spend the biggest fortune that we’ve got
which is our time here on earth with the loved one. Time is precious, there are
people out there who have very little time available. Take our time and spend
it with the person we love is the greatest gift we can give to that person.
Love is forgiving. Nobody is perfect, much less the person
we love. And the biggest forgiveness we can grant to the person we love is not
a forgiveness for a fault that the person has committed, but forgive that
person’s flaws and learn to live with them. Sacrifice ourselves, because these flaws
harm us. But still love.
To love is to tolerate. Not everything can be what we want when
we want it.
Love is giving a satisfaction for most things we do because
when a person really cares gives satisfaction. And to give a satisfaction is to
sweeten everything bad that we do to the person we love. Justify a delay,
explain in detail an absence, give a reason for not doing a favor that the
loved one asked.
Love is caring, take care of the loved one as if we took
care of a baby. That’s why people who love each other call each other baby.
If a person doesn’t take care of you, doesn’t care about
your feelings, doesn’t ask for forgiveness when offends you or doesn’t console
you when you have been offended, if a person can’t recognize how fragile you
are, doesn’t bother to make you feel happy and smile all the time, if such
person doesn’t try to satisfy most of your whims, doesn’t refuse things that
can harm you or which such person thinks are wrong, if that person doesn’t treat
you like a baby, then that person doesn’t love you.
Stélio Inácio
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