WRITTEN BY ZACHARY BUENAVENTURA
Love is a complex and complicated emotion, with different meanings depending on the context and the person experiencing it. When we talk about love and passion, it can be described as an intense and powerful emotion that drives us to feel deeply connected, invested, and committed to another person. Valentine's Day is a widely celebrated holiday dedicated to love and romance. The meaning of love can be focused on the expression of affection and appreciation for the people we care about during this time. While falling in love can be a wonderful and fulfilling experience, it is not without complications. Love can be complicated, intense, and emotionally demanding, resulting in a variety of difficulties and challenges. There are many personal interpretations of what love is for many people. We took a survey to get people's insights and perspectives on what the VAAS student body's thoughts are about the meaning of love. Here are some of their responses. Some students had a lot to say about love and its complexity. Jaden Gonzales a 10th grade student stated “When it comes to having a partner we tend to glue ourselves to this word, we love our girlfriend or we love our wife or husband, or boyfriend…. When it comes to love I feel people say it because they don’t know how to describe what they truly feel so they come up with the word love and build up behind it. Loving somebody can be an amazing feeling. We tend to feel happy and at peace, we could give up almost all our time for this person because they give us this sense of joy that no other person has given us. This is the reason why so many fall victim to heartbreak. With love comes so many opportunities for injury, you risk it all for joy and peace putting your walls down for this person to be able to destroy everything you have built. This is the reason so many people fail at romantic relationships they don’t accept the person who’s trying to show them this affection they feel that this singular person will ruin and destroy what they have built in a matter of seconds.” For other students love is “To feel warm and at home. A place like no other”, “Putting someone else's welfare above your own.”, “...talking to a person and the world goes quiet.” “Love is the feeling of fullness in your heart and being okay with living in the moment.” , “Love is a sacrifice. Love is an action. it shows how you care, and how you admire one’s self. Love is a language. The way we communicate our feelings. The way life comes together.” After reading the responses from everyone who took part in the survey, love is complicated, there is no one correct answer about what “it” is. Love is more than just an emotion or a chemical reaction that fires off in your brain. Love is human connection, understanding, sacrifice, and more. Love is one of the most powerful and transformative emotions that humans can feel. It is one of the deepest and indescribable feelings that cannot be based solely on one factor. Love is challenging and can be scary for a lot of people. It has the ability to bring individuals joy, happiness, fulfillment, as well as to form strong and lasting bonds between partners. At the end of the day, Love is a deeply personal and subjective experience that has different meanings for different people. Some people associate love with intense passion and romance. For others love is just not as important as other things. Love is a language, love is a euphoric feeling like no other, and love is a concept that many can manipulate to inflict emotional damage on someone that can last a lifetime. Love is a bond that can transcend all levels of communication shaped by our unique circumstances, experiences, and values. Love is what you interpret it as and there is never a right or wrong answer. Comments are closed.
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