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Love at first sight. To some, it may be an experience that they've longed for all of their lives. To me, it sounds like some crazy idea that a hopeless romantic dreamt up some odd fifty ga-jillion years ago. It just doesn't make sense.

Maybe my opinion on the matter amkes me seem pessimistic and bitter -- I am not denouncing the concept of true love. True love is something that I am a very firm believer in -- the idea that you can experience true love after laying your eyes on someone for the first time is, in my opinion, ridiculously shallow.

What is "true love," anyway? I have always believed that the truest form of love is when you value the well-being of your lover over your own. True love is selfless. True love means the willingness to lay everything you have on the line for the sake of one person's happiness. You're not in it for youself. You're in it for that one person. True love is rare, but when it happens, it's beautiful.

Now, out of my hopeless gushing session and back to the pint: how can true love happen with your eyes? Excuse me, but that is the stupidest, shallowest, most ridiculous idea that I have ever heard! How can you be devoted to someone you don't even know? That's infatuation, not love. Love is selfless, but there are few things more selfish than infatuation, lust, inexperienced passion of the flesh, or whatever you want to call it. You want more of the person for your own pleasure. Your interests are what you have in mind -- that person is attractive, I want them. They can make me happy. Can you make them happy? No. Do you care? Of course not.

That. Isn't. Love.