What is love?
Love stories of others
When thinking about love we tend to think about the love of a couple, it is natural. Now, do we all have the same idea of love? I believe that love is a way of seeing and feeling the world and is present basically in any human interaction. Love is expressed in many forms and in many circumstances of life: in the family, friends, in a couple, at work, in a store, through respect, kindness, patience, understanding, collaboration. and even with a smile. If we look at the world with love, with enthusiasm, if we are grateful and generous everything looks and feels better. Regarding the love of a couple in a world in which we are overwhelmed by individualism and the lack of emotional responsibility, let us not let ourselves be defeated and let us all take a new vow of faith. Because love does come in different ways, at different ages and even in unexpected ways, but it does come and even more so if we believe it is possible. Maybe what we really don't know is when it arrives. So let's be happy during our singleness because that great love is yet to come! To find more clues, I did interview single people, couples and children, whom I asked to tell us what they believe love is. Perhaps they will inspire us and help us renew our faith in this long-awaited love. For a world with more love! Because love does exist.
Yanella, 22 years old, Argentina
What is love?
Love is an expression of the soul. We all have it, even if some find it difficult to show it. It is a challenge and some try to promote it in their own way. In the world we need more love to be more saved.
Love is something immense. You can never stop it. Nowadays people are colder, more distant, but if you look at people they have a lot to give.
What would a world with more love be like?
A world with more love would be healing, since the other is a reflection of us. If we all gave pure love without the prejudice of idealizing the other, there would be more empathy in our world! ❤️🔥🧸
Pilar, 40 years old, Uruguay
What is love?
Ah, what a question! It is the greatest example of affection, empathy, thinking about others and not being selfish.
What would a world with more love be like?
A more empathetic, less selfish world, in which we think about others, where we are not just looking at our navels. We would stop having so much to give to each other, on an emotional and monetary level. I think that if we were all more human, we would all be more balanced.
Felipe, 15 years old, Uruguay
What is love?
Love is when a person wants something for a reason and that may be a person or a thing has a reason for that person to love it.
What would a world with more love be like?
A world where there is no type of racism or anything similar and not rejecting or avoiding something because of what you think without knowing.
Mirna, 46 years old, Lebanon
What is love?
Love is giving.
What would a world with more love be like?
It would be a world with collaboration, like mothers do, who give more and more without expecting anything in return.
Grace, 28 years old, China
What is love?
This is the definition of love from Wikipedia: Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. Most commonly, love refers to a feeling of strong attraction and emotional attachment.
This seems to be a very simple question, yet it's so hard to answer...
As a 28-year-old, I believe I have experienced love in different forms: love from family, love from my ex-partner (although we are no longer together), love from myself, and love from friends, and sometimes from strangers.
Love, for me, is a strong and warm energy.
Love is a shoulder, a safe place where you can cry when life throws lemons at you (before you even have the strength to turn them into lemonade).
Love is like a bowl of chicken noodle soup. Sometimes I make that soup for myself and my friends ( add a bit of lime to create a sour-ish flavor and that's the secret). It's not just about the soup, though; it's about the conversation and the loving language shared with friends while enjoying the soup and dessert (and yes there’s always dessert!🍮)
Love is like a cousin you grew up with, with whom you can still share a bed at the age of 28 and talk about childhood memories (or sometimes even traumas ooops). But you know that you're there for each other and provide support.
Love is your dear friend who comes to pick you up after work, and you both go for a beer and talk about all the good and bad things that happened that day.
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So, I guess love can take on many different forms, but it usually comes in the warm, safe, and positive energy that feels like a hug, trying to heal you and give you more energy. Love understands you, supports you, and even feeds your stomach so you don't get hungry. Love is the answer, and love conquers all.
What would a world with more love be like?
A world with love... wow, I already feel happy when I imagine myself living in one.
In a world with love, the people living there would all be very kind. They would smile back at you when you smile at them, you know, with genuine big big smiles, and compliment you on your appearance, saying things like, "Hey lady!!! you look great today!!! Hope you have a wonderful day."
They would ask for your name when you get your coffee and ask about your day, sparking curiosity about each other and you guys eventually becoming friends. "Oh, that coffee shop? Yeah, my friend Ryan works there."
A world with love would have friends who love and unconditionally support you, giving you their full attention during conversations with their big big curiosity eyes and be like: ya sis, I got you, I got that feeling, I am here for you and I support you!
In a world with love, you would have a partner who loves you wholeheartedly, hugging and kissing you every day before you leave the house. They would simply be there for you, even when you're acting strange, crazy, or misunderstood by the rest of the world. "Hey, she's a weirdo, but she's my weirdo"—that kind of thing, hehehehe.
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And many more and more—it's just a place that I want to be part of.
