What exactly is love and why is it that we constantly believe it should make someone love us back? Love , to me, is always a one way street. Sometimes , you reach an intersection that goes both ways but once in a while, there’s always a dead end. But love doesn’t owe you anything. And just because you love someone , it doesn’t mean that they have to love you back. 

People say that “titles” defines the boundaries of love because if not, it will run freely. But I’m sitting here writing about LOVE , in it’s most general form. To give love is to willingly devote your heart to someone or something. The problem here is that we tend to believe that love is this mutual thing and once we realize that it’s not, it becomes an obsession into finding a love that actually is. 

But to genuinely love does not mean to expect it in return. Love should be altruistic and not a duty of ” I do this for you and you do this for me”. Doesn’t it mean more when love DOESN’T have to reciprocated but yet, someday you find someone who WILLINGLY and GENUINELY wants to LOVE you for their own reasons and not just because you love them? In my opinion, I think we all desire that.

To me, I don’t need a title to be able to love someone. Love can’t even be described, so I won’t try to limit it because of a title. The fact that I can call you my “boyfriend” does make me love you more or love you less. It doesn’t really define how I can love therefore to me, it’s not as important as I used to think it was.

I’m not saying that it is not needed in general, I’m just saying that in order to LOVE, there is not NEED to have a title. Titles make you feel secure because no one wants to love someone they cannot call their own. But if you think about it, just because he/she is not your significant other anymore, it doesn’t mean that you stop loving them at that instant because they no longer hold that special title.

Love is love. It doesn’t matter the gender, the time, the title, or the chances of actually being together. When I love someone, I love them for WHO they are and not for the type of relationship we have been labeled as.