“TIS LOVE, OR TIS LUST” by Kayla W.

To be honest I was going to write my piece on beauty….Until I saw that someone had already did that. So, I started thinking of what else to write about, and it finally hit me. LOVE. There are a lot of different definitions of love. For example, there is godly, romantic, and fraternal. I decided to only talk about the romantic aspect. The dictionary definition of love (like we all don’t already know what it is)…….is a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.

 In today’s society, love is just about everywhere. There is literally no escape from it. Either we listen to love or we see love…....right? The real question is Tis Love, or Tis Lust? How can you tell if the couple that you’re looking at, is really in love? Or, do they just want each other physically. Can you decipher if the artist is spittin’ out bars on love or lust? Just take a moment and think. Does anybody ever really know what love looks like? Personally I believe that nobody truly knows what love looks like unless they have been through it themselves.

At school, literally everywhere I go I see couple after couple after couple. The bad thing about that is as I get older the couples get younger and younger. Do the couples even know if they truly love each other? Finding a couple that truly loves each other is difficult. It’s almost like an enormous game of Where’s Waldo?  Sometimes people just get together for the physical part. Which makes absolutely no sense to me because once you interact in that sort of activity, you can never get back what you have given. Is anybody ever truly ready for that? I remember this like it happened yesterday, and I truly believe that it is horrific. It was during my freshman year in 6^th period, in Mrs. Roger’s biology class. I really don’t remember how we started talking about this, but next thing I knew this girl was telling our lab group that she had lost her virginity in 8^th grade……SKERT…… I said “is this a joke, are you for real”? (In my head). All I wanna know is, was it for da love or for da pleasure?

I feel like when you act on physical attraction alone that nine times out of ten it won’t end so well. Unless of course it’s in a book. The revolting thing about love is that it can be because of a person not having anywhere else to go. Or, because they have become brainwashed. In the sense that they know and everyone else knows that they are being abused, and when confronted about it; they reply with the infamous, “I love them too much to leave” or “They didn’t mean too” or “It was my fault because I didn’t listen.” When I hear that I think, NOOOOOO. Clearly you have not read Twilight. When a couple is asked about love they need to respond with these few words from Stephanie Meyers, “Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew- knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest- was how love gave someone the power to break you.” That right there is just a snippet of what true love should be like, is that something that is possible to achieve? Sure it is, you just have to find it. Or, you can take the easy way out and ask Bella Cullen because I’m sure she would gladly enlighten you on what true love is. Or you can just ask your parents. (0_0) < (^3^) >