Nata Writes | Visual Storyteller

The Alchemy of Love

When it comes to it, Love is not just Love. Let me explain, we’re so quick to throw away the word love so easily, when in truth it’s just a popular word to try to describe something indescribable by words, but since we, human beings, are always have such an urge to define and label everything, we throw away the word loosely without deepening and flushing out what it is we’re trying to say. That is why there is so much confusion and misunderstanding when it comes to “love”. 

Sometimes liking someone so much and feeling attracted to them and wanting to spend more and more time with them is what we think love is. But then what happens when things go south? What happens when either person has a meltdown, goes through something traumatic, must deal with depression, and is no longer available to provide his or her side of the original agreement you guys had? Is that when love is over? 

It’s a very interesting question to ask, and it’s a good one to think about when defining what love is for you. 

What if you take some space, and let your actions and feelings be? What if instead of wanting to define it, you let it be to see what happens? 

In my opinion, if it was and it is love, then it will always be there. It won’t go anywhere, even if the dynamic and the relationship changes or ends, the pure feeling we call love does not go anywhere. 

I think we like to define and separate romantic love, from all other types of love, but love is love. If it’s really love you start to realize after a while that you love that person so much and so deep that you want them happy, safe, and well. You don’t want them to suffer, and if you’re not the right match for them, as much as it hurts and stings to think of them with someone else, you wish that for them—if that’s what will make them happy. 

When love is at the forefront of everything; friendship will always prevail. That is If you want to call it friendship, if you want to define it in some way. But the truth is that love has no definition, no title. 

Often, we think that being with a partner is more about the romanticism, and the courting, the sex, but if it’s love in its true form, it has no ending and no beginning. Everything is and isn’t all at the same time. It’s everything all at once. It’s enjoying the person’s presence and energy and what he or she is bringing you in the moment. It’s all about the present moment, and not longing for what it used to be and no longer is, because that’s when we miss on the beauty of the present moment and the transformation of love.

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