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Bubbling_Stream Vice Captain
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 Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 11:10 pm
I, being the hopeless romantic I am, figured I'd start a topic about love.
What do you think of it? Is it just a "Simple Chemical Reation"? Or do you think there's more than that, that there is a spiritual connection, physical connection ect.
Do you think age matters? Do you think a 5 year old can fall in love? What about maturity? How much of a role do you think that plays?
You can even talk about that fuzzy feeling you get when you like someone! heart
Do you fall head-over-heels when you have a crush on someone? Is the person all you can think about? Am I just too much of a romantic for my own good?
All of those are open for discussion, so feel free to post your views!
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As for my views, I could go on forever..So, enjoy reading, eh?
I believe love is one of the most oxymoronic things in this world. Simple, yet complex, soft but hard, happy, however, sad at the same time, and many other combinations that I could just go on and on with. Now, don't take that the wrong way, I think love is one of the greatest things of all time, I was just saying that there is more than one side to it.
To be blatant, I love love! I'm obsessed. I daydream all the time about the perfect romance [as a couple of you know], and always seem to have my head in the clouds, even if it isn't about Romance. Romantic songs are my all time favorite, and I've written quite a few romantic poems, which I'm not going to post here just yet. If it was possible, I'd probably just be this huge ball of..well..Loving energy. Luckily, humans must have a firm body, so not floating ball of energy for you guys. Yet. xD
There are many forms of love..You can love your pet, your family, your GF/BF/Husband/Wife. Note that I'm not limiting this discussion to just BF/GF type of love.
It bothers me also how people use the phrase, "I love you." So often these days. Almost like it's, "Hi, how you doing?" Or, "How was your day?" I think that you shouldn't say that you love someone unless you mean it. Now, I'm sure most of us have all kinds of different views on what love is, but here's mine.
I read in the ED [or maybe GD?] a post that went something like this.
Love is never selfish, love is ever-trusting. Love is always nurturing, never hurting, always with you.
There was more to it then that, but that's all I can remember. Anyway, that sums up pretty well my views on love. There is this quote also, "Love is when, at 2:30 am, you wake up wishing your dreams were reality." That's a pretty good one too. Also, the words from Forever Love (Digame) by Anna Nalick:
"When you smile, with those eyes.
Baby it's like you place a finger on my heart.
And your lips next to mine,
Make me think that maybe Heaven's where you are." I love that song, by the way. I'm listening to it as I type this post.
I'll quote that post from the ED [GD?] if I can find it.
As for age, I don't really think it matters much. I mean, you love your parents, right? You love your parents from when you are born, and you know, that's young. I think maturity has more to do with it.
I mean, sure, a 5 year old could be in love with the little boy next door, but she might not realize it until she's 20. Why? She's more mature, more able to realize her feelings. And don't think that by maturity, I mean age either. Some people are more mature then others, as I've learned. *cough*
As for when I'm crushing on someone..*sigh* Oh boy. FEARR MEH!! Rawr!
I fall so madly head-over-heels, over-the-moon, hook-line-and-sinker that I scare even myself sometimes. The person is all that I think about, all day, all night. During my spare time. Whenever someone says something that makes you go, "Aww..How tweet!" I think of my crush.
I turn red [not as much as I used to, thank goodness] just talking to them, and every moment I feel like shouting, "I like you! OMG I LIKE YOU!!!!1one!!" But I'm just too shy. Which is crap, because I'd have screamed that to someone already. That's not really the point here though...*sigh*
So, to sum this long thing up, I have decided that I am too romantic for my own, shy, good. 3nodding After reading my long rant type thing, please , tell me what you think on these topics.
Thanks,
Bubbles! (Emma) heart
EDIT: Found it! emele88 Love *ahem* love is simple..Love is always patient and kind, it is never jealous, love is never boastful or concieted, it is never rude or selfish, it does not take offence and is not resentful.
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:02 pm
Wow, Emz... you're really romantic. I'm not exactly like you, but in some ways I am. Like, when I crush, I obsess... some of you know that. *cough* And with my friends, sometimes even people I'm hardly friends with, I have this huge-acious amount of friend-love.
There's plenty I have to talk about on this matter, but not now. I have homework. *vomits, then runs away screaming with spasms of emetophobia*
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Bubbling_Stream Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:17 pm
La Violetta Wow, Emz... you're really romantic. I'm not exactly like you, but in some ways I am. Like, when I crush, I obsess... some of you know that. *cough* And with my friends, sometimes even people I'm hardly friends with, I have this huge-acious amount of friend-love.
There's plenty I have to talk about on this matter, but not now. I have homework. *vomits, then runs away screaming with spasms of emetophobia*
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:56 pm
Ok... starting with the first thing I have an opinion about... 5-year-old love! As for me, I think a 5-year-old can love just as easily as a 20-year-old. Especially with family love. But even friend love and the kind that first comes to mind (can't think of a word for it) can be present in a 5-year-old. Sure, they might not recognize it. Sure, it may be raw, underdeveloped, unnoticed, different, pure. But it's there. Maybe even more so than in a 20-year-old, because of the purity of spirit they have, uncontaminated by hatred, betrayal, rejection (hopefully).
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 7:02 pm
Next up: FUZZINESS! And, well, blushing. Heh. And shakyness. And shyness, stuttering, and a million other things. W00! But yeah, as for the fuzzy feeling, I like it, even if it weakens me, makes me shaky. *sings* Just like me, they long to be, close to you... by the Carpenters. I think it's like every molecule in your body is tingling, trying to bring you closer to him (or her), moving around wildly, full of that crazy love energy that Emz is a ball of. rofl
Wow, this is SO not like me... guess I'm on a roll here. Must be some kind of subliminal chakral communication between me and Emz. W00! I'm getting that feeling that I got when I FINALLY told Shmaz who I liked. Heh. Fun.
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:10 pm
Yeah, Olive, that was one of the best days ever! (Except the later part sweatdrop ). I remember your finger pointing up every 5 seconds rofl
Well, as of love, I think the word love is REALLY general: it can be with friends, family, crushes redface , boyfriend or girlfriend... etc.
I have never been truly in love, although I must admit I wish I had heart . Well, Ill hope for the best.
I do have a crush... but its not that serious... its just theres this guy whos kinda nice and sorta cute... you know... (I hope sweatdrop ).
Yeah Olive, you never think of me like this...
Well, from the inside, I really wish I had experienced true love... heart heart heart
*sigh* Unfortunately, I dont.
Like, all the guys at our (meaning me and La Violetta) school hate me. Yeah... its been like that ever since about 2nd grade.
Back to the 5 year old topic: sure, a 5 year old can love, but the feeling is different... Right now, the word love usually means crushes to me, where as when I was 5 years old, it meant my family. In a few years itll probably mean boyfriends to me. When Im an adult, I think it will mean true love: not the little shy, embarassed type of love, but the love thats bold and stands out.
Love...
I dont know how to describe it...
This is the best discussion on Gaia ever!
(Sorry, a bit off topic smile )
Friends... thats love... isnt it?
I mean, one of those friends who means a lot to you, who you stand up for, and feel you must be responsible for sometimes... thats love, I think.
Love is such a big part of our lives... we dont even notice it! Every little kind deed is love, dont you think?
Im going love crazy...
Im not really a romantic person... its just... I dont know... I guess I am deep within my soul...
*sigh*
*yet another sigh*
Why is love the way it is?
Everybody considers it different, the feeling of it changes while time passes, it can be of different sizes (not literally, I mean like... you know how you could love somebody more than another?), it can just be simple or it can be more... "complex", you know. You could talk about love forever! *panting*
Yeah. Thats it. (At least for now.)
By the way, why is red the color of love? I wonder...
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:14 pm
Coughhopelessromanticcough! Ho-LE Crap! You wrote a LOT! Anywho. Yah. Sigh...
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:19 pm
Yeah, I think its my biggest post ever...
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Bubbling_Stream Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:22 pm
marinazzle Yeah, Olive, that was one of the best days ever! (Except the later part sweatdrop ). I remember your finger pointing up every 5 seconds rofl
Do I even want to know? Lol...marinazzle Well, as of love, I think the word love is REALLY general: it can be with friends, family, crushes redface , boyfriend or girlfriend... etc.
Exactly! But you shouldn't use it lightly either. It is used to much like it means nothing.marinazzle I have never been truly in love, although I must admit I wish I had heart . Well, Ill hope for the best.
I do have a crush... but its not that serious... its just theres this guy whos kinda nice and sorta cute... you know... (I hope sweatdrop ).
Yeah Olive, you never think of me like this... marinazzle Well, from the inside, I really wish I had experienced true love... heart heart heart
*sigh* Unfortunately, I dont.
Like, all the guys at our (meaning me and La Violetta) school hate me. Yeah... its been like that ever since about 2nd grade.
Well, that's crap! I'm sorry!marinazzle Back to the 5 year old topic: sure, a 5 year old can love, but the feeling is different... Right now, the word love usually means crushes to me, where as when I was 5 years old, it meant my family. In a few years itll probably mean boyfriends to me. When Im an adult, I think it will mean true love: not the little shy, embarassed type of love, but the love thats bold and stands out.
Yeah, love really can change with age, because, although it is not the ONLY factor, age DOES have to do with maturity. More maturity [in my eyes]=Stronger understanding of feelings..Love in particular.marinazzle Love...
I dont know how to describe it...
This is the best discussion on Gaia ever!
(Sorry, a bit off topic smile )
I know, Isn't it though! Especually when you don't have people riding up your butt for what you believe!
marinazzle Friends... thats love... isnt it?
I mean, one of those friends who means a lot to you, who you stand up for, and feel you must be responsible for sometimes... thats love, I think.
Love is such a big part of our lives... we dont even notice it! Every little kind deed is love, dont you think?
marinazzle Im going love crazy...
Im not really a romantic person... its just... I dont know... I guess I am deep within my soul...
*sigh*
*yet another sigh* marinazzle Why is love the way it is?
Everybody considers it different, the feeling of it changes while time passes, it can be of different sizes (not literally, I mean like... you know how you could love somebody more than another?), it can just be simple or it can be more... "complex", you know. You could talk about love forever! *panting*
Yeah. Thats it. (At least for now.)
The universal question. Well, one of them anyway. I don't think love is the same way to everyone. Love is different to different types of people. It's never the same for everyone, so noone can explain it. *sigh*marinazzle By the way, why is red the color of love? I wonder...
I dunno..That's a good question..I always thought that pink would be better, and I don't really like the color pink all that much.
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:26 pm
Wow..I just analyzed a post... eek
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Bubbling_Stream Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:27 pm
I am really glad you agree with me. (OMG this is so fun!) Because, I mean, everybody has different opinions about it, so I thought everybody would think the opposite of what I think... Well, apparentely its not like that!
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Love... heart
Sorry, gotta read a pm now!
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 5:22 pm
Love!
WOW...
Shmazita...
I've never heard you talk like that.
But it's awesome!
marinazzle Yeah, Olive, that was one of the best days ever! (Except the later part sweatdrop ). I remember your finger pointing up every 5 seconds rofl
As for me, I don't suppose I've ever been TRULY in love... madly, yes, but not truly... Merher... ninja and mouse... Like I said, madly. When I crush, I crush hard. I get delusional. I blush, I sweat, I generally freak out when I'm around him.
The worst part is, I have this awful habit of crushing on two guys at once. Then I feel really disloyal. I hate it.
I don't think ALL the guys hate us. MOST of them, yes. But I don't think, um, -unnamed person- does... he's nice when he's not around Adam. And ninja doesn't either. (At least, he better not. Rawr.)
I think that in some situations, the word love actually can be used lightly... not to the point of meaninglessness, but there's so much love in the world that it's hard to just use it for REALLY serious love.Anna Nalick But, my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles...
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 5:49 pm
La Violetta Take any genuine smile (not a fake one, those don't count) and I'll bet sooo much that it can be traced directly back to some type of love. So... yeah... just thought I'd add something else to the pool of discussion.
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 5:51 pm
Next thing... Headoverheelsness.
When I crush, I REALLY crush. In the early stages of crushing, every time I close my eyes, I'll see him behind my eyelids. In the later stages, the images don't come as much, but I'm just as obsessed.
If he's a friend (Mousie Man), I talk to him as much as I can, joke with him. I let him get away with things I'd attack my other friends for. (I ish a vewwy, vewwy violent person.) Aside from that, I try (and often fail) to treat him like any other friend.
If he's not a friend (Adam. Ugh.), I withdraw myself, don't talk to him at all, short, short replies if he talks to me. Any tiny nice thing he does to me, I obsess over. I have fantasies in which he actually talks to me.
If he's kind of in-between ( ninja ), I'll take opportunities to talk to him, but not randomly. Like, when we were sitting next to each other in humanities class (I got him there on purpose), I talked to him a lot, but now that we've switched seats I usually don't.
I always obsess. As soon as I tell someone about him, everything comes out. If the person I'm around knows I like him, I tell them whatever's on my mind about him. I go into weirdical fantasies and imagine him following me around, having a conversation with me. When I'm around him, I fill my eyes with as much of him as I can without making it too obvious that I'm madly in love with him. Any nice thing he does for me is SUCH a big deal in my head. Any funny thing he says sends me into hysterical laughter. I can't control myself around him.
Around a crush, I feel like I'm a rapidly rotating magnet, and he's a stable one, let's say with the north side facing me. When my south side is facing him, I want to hug him, get as close to him as possible. But then my north side swings round and I realize I've got to stay away, not make it too obvious. Especially with Mousie Man (friend). I met him at my sleepaway camp through two other friends who were already friends with both of us. We became friends and I started crushing on him right away. Now we hardly ever see him because he lives far away from us. The first time we saw him after camp, we went to his house. When he opened the door, one of my friends ran in screaming and hugged him- she's really affectionate with people, so it wasn't out of the ordinary. Anyway, I'm pretty sure she doesn't like him. I wanted to hug him too, but it seemed like it would just be too weird for me. Then I had nothing to do with myself, so I pushed my other friend inside because he was just standing there. And so I missed my chance.
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:08 pm
La Violetta Next thing... Headoverheelsness.
When I crush, I REALLY crush. In the early stages of crushing, every time I close my eyes, I'll see him behind my eyelids. In the later stages, the images don't come as much, but I'm just as obsessed.
If he's a friend (Mousie Man), I talk to him as much as I can, joke with him. I let him get away with things I'd attack my other friends for. (I ish a vewwy, vewwy violent person.) Aside from that, I try (and often fail) to treat him like any other friend.
That's how I am around Freckles. I try to talk to him every chance I get. It usually ends with me laughing. xD La Violetta If he's not a friend (Adam. Ugh.), I withdraw myself, don't talk to him at all, short, short replies if he talks to me. Any tiny nice thing he does to me, I obsess over. I have fantasies in which he actually talks to me.
La Violetta If he's kind of in-between ( ninja ), I'll take opportunities to talk to him, but not randomly. Like, when we were sitting next to each other in humanities class (I got him there on purpose), I talked to him a lot, but now that we've switched seats I usually don't.
I always obsess. As soon as I tell someone about him, everything comes out. If the person I'm around knows I like him, I tell them whatever's on my mind about him. I go into weirdical fantasies and imagine him following me around, having a conversation with me. When I'm around him, I fill my eyes with as much of him as I can without making it too obvious that I'm madly in love with him. Any nice thing he does for me is SUCH a big deal in my head. Any funny thing he says sends me into hysterical laughter. I can't control myself around him. La Violetta Around a crush, I feel like I'm a rapidly rotating magnet, and he's a stable one, let's say with the north side facing me. When my south side is facing him, I want to hug him, get as close to him as possible. But then my north side swings round and I realize I've got to stay away, not make it too obvious.
Yeah, I'm like that too. It's kinda annoying, at least, to me.La Violetta Especially with Mousie Man (friend). I met him at my sleepaway camp through two other friends who were already friends with both of us. We became friends and I started crushing on him right away. Now we hardly ever see him because he lives far away from us. The first time we saw him after camp, we went to his house. When he opened the door, one of my friends ran in screaming and hugged him- she's really affectionate with people, so it wasn't out of the ordinary. Anyway, I'm pretty sure she doesn't like him. I wanted to hug him too, but it seemed like it would just be too weird for me. Then I had nothing to do with myself, so I pushed my other friend inside because he was just standing there. And so I missed my chance.
That's poo. I would have taken my chance..
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