Is it really love?

Teenage years is one of the most difficult stages of life, where most people give less attention to. Unable to express their feelings or identify them, teenagers tend to find an answer either consult to their parents, guardians or friends. This stage is crucial for a person to know who he/she is.

One of the most controversial topic for teenagers (not only teenagers but also adults) is how to approach or express the feeling of love. But is it really love?

One must consider first if the 'so called' feeling is really love. On my opinion, there is a huge difference between admiration and love. People tend to mistakenly identify love for admiration. 

When you like a person for his/her certain characteristic is called admiration. (E.g Cute, caring, beautiful, passionate, respectful and etc). Some common mistakes of people is that they associate admiration for love. Yes, liking a person can be the first stage on loving a person, but it is not really the essence of love. 

Love on the other hand, In my opinion love is the feeling when you are close to someone and your heart starts to skip a beat, able to smile with him/her on any situations, you can share all the problems to the other person and help you decide how to handle the problem, you can express all your emotions without being judge by the other person, a shoulder to cry on, and will stick to you no matter what happens to you. For me love is not just a feeling that is only based on emotions, it should also be a feeling of trust and friendship.

Love has different meanings for people. Love is vague. when you truly accept that person for who he/she truly is, is that love? or being able to tolerate a persons' flaws, is that also love? (Greeks classified love in 3 forms, Eros, Philos and Agape which I will be discussing on my other post: types of love)