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Being in Love is not being anxious and worried and terrified all the time. Real Love is a feeling of calm and happiness and trust.
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If it's unrequited love, just get over it. Suffering for unrequited love doesn't really help anyone, and it drives your friends crazy. (It did my friends, in any case. Your friends may not mind).
If it's love you'll know. Though if whenever you see this person you feel like you're being chased by a tiger, this is at least a promising indicator of infatuation.
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I think being "in love" is overrated. The sort of love that lasts is a verb, a commitment of will. But being madly, out-of-your-mind, mutually infatuated is very nice, something everyone should experience at least once.
What is being "in love"? I think there are as many definitions as there are people.
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Come on, beverly. I'm sure that at least two people on earth share the same definition.
Unless... possibly some people could have more than one definition. If that's the case, then how is it able to equal the exact number of people. There's something fishy going on...
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Banna, I've observed that the people who love me get way more excited and upset (and occasionally happy) over things that I do than people who don't.
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OK -- serious answer (although my first answer was serious, albeit not very helpful).
Love has many aspects, and the best I can do is say some of the aspects of love.
To me, one of the most important aspects of love is commitment. How much are you willing to sacrifice for the thing you love? For how long? Are you willing to commit to keep sacrificing even in the future when you no longer feel like it?
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quote: Main Entry: angst Pronunciation: 'ä[ng](k)st, 'a[ng](k)st Function: noun Etymology: Danish & German; Danish, from German : a feeling of anxiety, apprehension, or insecurity
What angst means to me is the melodrama of Wagnerian operas or soap operas. Not connected to the realities of life.
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Hey - being caught by a tiger is very peaceful and relaxing.
No, but really. I say that AJ and I are totally right on this one. If you're freaking out, it's not love. Love is not a feeling of confusion, it's a feeling of peace.
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Someone explained to me why parents in general are able to handle messiness caused by their babies. They said, "Once you realize you'd throw yourself in front of a train to save this little person, dirty diapers don't have the same effect as they did before."
That's love: when you think more about the person you love than yourself. It's a verb, not a noun.
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Not that you were asking about lasting love, but I think an important ingredient to lasting love is finding someone with whom you can build a strong foundation. You've got to share similar values, be able to work through problems, communicate, act maturely. Infatuation alone does not often bring two such people together. But when it does, well, aren't you lucky!
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"I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists."
-- Jubal Harshaw to Ben Caxton, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
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In other words the love comes before the freaking out. Like if your loved one is in a life-threatening situation. Then if you love someone you do freak out.
But it should be extenuating circumstances freaking out, not constant ongoing angst and melodrama over ever little thing that goes on.
Twitterpation is different than freaking out/angst. Twitterpation is finding out that the calm love does exist and being happy because you didn't think you were going to find someone who loves you regardles of how you mangle your toothpaste tube while brushing your teeth and whether or not you fold your underwear precisely in thirds.
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*though I admit Steve and I now have separate toothpaste tubes since sharing one was causing angst
quote:In other words the love comes before the freaking out. Like if your loved one is in a life-threatening situation. Then if you love someone you do freak out.
But it should be extenuating circumstances freaking out, not constant ongoing angst and melodrama over ever little thing that goes on.
Twitterpation is different than freaking out/angst. Twitterpation is finding out that the calm love does exist and being happy because you didn't think you were going to find someone who loves you regardles of how you mangle your toothpaste tube while brushing your teeth and whether or not you fold your underwear precisely in thirds.
But what if they don't love you?
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You could always read my Second Landmark Shameless self promotion.
I think there are two main flavors of love. One is unconditional, the other is deliberate. Which is better? Neither. Which do folks want? Both.
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Why must we all change names like this? It just makes Annie feel like an outsider, like she's not cool enough or a good enough friend of Pooka to know her real name.
The only time it's fun to use alternate egos is when Annie turns into Professor Funk. That's funny.
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I'm curious as to why pooka changed her name at all. It was perfectly good before and much easier to say.
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[derail] sorry, annie. It's my obscure OSC reference name. I was using it to avoid my landmark, because Suneun's landmark was so great. But I waited too long and now CT's landmark came out. I meant to do it today P.S. I think this all happened while you were being at peace with your tiger. [/derail]
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I guess if love isn't reciprocated it is a truly selfless act of love to put your own desires aside and let them go on with their life without you.
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Whoa, now I want to know what's in those chat transcripts that's incriminating enough to get Strom to shut up about Annie and Hobbes being all cutsie.
Must be powerful stuff.
*wishes SHE had blackmail material like that*
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Or does she mean transcripts of herself and Hobbes being even more cutsie? That might be quite threatening to Storm.
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