Love is a concoction made up of many ingredients, which is the reason why it is so hard to define love in a simple statement. Certain components when mixed together will create the emotional mindset that we call love. Love makes you want to be a better person. There’s no word for the opposite of lonely, but that’s a feeling that is a component of love. Love is not just one thing. It is a concoction of many different feelings and emotions which combined make you feel very lucky.
Love is largely about opposites. Loving and being loved is the opposite of lonely. Listening is the opposite of doing all the talking. Caring, giving, sharing, and providing are the opposite of focusing only on your own needs and desires. Love is more about giving than getting, but the more you give the more you get in return. Love is like gravity. You can feel its’ effects on you, but you can’t tell what it is really.
I wrote a song or two about love. Here are the lyrics to one of them.
Maybe I Can Show You
If I’m always there to hold you when something makes you cry,
If I can console you and make those teardrops dry,
If I can make you smile again the way you always do,
Then maybe that will show you that I love you.
If I can take you places and hold your hand in mine,
If I can bring excitement to your body and your mind,
If I can make good feelings come from everything we do,
Then maybe that will show you that I love you.
Words cand never say it, just words will never do,
But day by day, hour by hour, I’ll share my life with you.
If I can bring you flowers when there’s no occasion to,
If I can do some things to make life easier for you,
If I can show it every day in all the things I do,
Then maybe I can show you that I love you.