What is love?

Wow 2 posts in one day!!! Yes. Why?...I'm in a blogging kinda mood thats why?! :) anyway I was thinking...because thats what I do..and I came across another really good thought. What is love? We have so many ideas that are put into our minds constantly  through the influence of  media, our religious views or our families morals. But what if you strip that all away? What is really left...love is more than a feeling because what happens when the feelings go away...is love gone? This is the part where someone says "no Amelia love is way deeper than feelings" well if it is then why do people say "I love you " as casually as they say "Can I have a large fry with that" I mean if it is so deep then why has it become such a common phrase. "I love doughnuts!" or "I love those shoes!" are phrases we hear all the time but just as quick as we are to throw away the doughnut because its old and moldy or give the shoes away because they no longer fit we move on to other relationships and say that we no longer love the person we said we "loved" and when asked why just like the doughnut and the shoes we say  they got old or they no longer fit into our lives. I think that through my past relationships both dating relationships and friends I have learned one thing. Love is something that grows, at least in my case. The first "I love you" in any relationship is the best I love you because it is fresh, new, exciting, full of emotions but after that it is so easy to say it as much as you say hi or bye. Why? Well it's not because it doesn't mean anything but simply put because we forget why we said it to begin with, what it really means, why we wanted the other person to hear those three special words. Now remember these are just my thoughts and I am not philosopher or scholar I am just a normal almost 20 year old woman taking a deep swim in my pool of thoughts, that does not mean I am discrediting my thoughts either I mean there has to be some wisdom hidden in here somewhere....or at least I hope. I just want to make sense of this one word that people spend there whole lives trying to find. We have a whole day dedicated to it, people write books, songs and even movies about it but yet not a lot of people will really find it. So here is what you've all been waiting for...my definition of love: John 15:13 "There is no greater love than this, that he lay down his life for his friends."  There is no better example of what love is than the what Jesus did for us and there is no better way to explain love, if you are willing to lay down your life.  Now I know some of you are like "wow. how does dieing on a cross really show love?" well thats an easy answer: It takes more than feelings to give up your life because just as easily as you throw away that doughnut (idk I really want a doughnut or something) Jesus could have said there people are not worth my life...but he didn't because he truly, passionately loved us. And that my friends is what love is.




So, how do I end this awesome blog with a question....easy! What inspires you love? 




Until next time (which may be sooner than you think)


<3 Amelia