"Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star."
What is love? Khalil Gibran, the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu once quoted that life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruits. According to Hamka, love is not to teach us weak, but generate power. As for me, love is a pure feeling, an emotion that we have towards something. If we love something, we will become passionate about it. Love is also a projection of the essence of God to the universe.
Familial love
Familial love is natural affection such as the love towards our family and also friends. For this kind of love, we doesn’t have to express our love towards them by keep saying “I love you” to them frequently. All we need to do is just to appreciate their presence in our life. What I’m trying to say by appreciating them is that we ought to do things that can make them happy and proud to have us in their life too. For example, we can make our family feel happy for us by performing well in our exam, graduates, get a high-paid job, buy presents for them and bring them for vacation to special places. These kinds of things will surely make them feel blessed to have you in their life.
Romance
Romance is the pleasurable feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love. In the perspective of romantic love relationships, romance usually involves an expression of one's love, or one's deep emotional desires to connect with another person. The love between husband and wife, a boy with his girlfriend are some of the examples of romance. This kind of love needs us to be more intimate in terms of expressing our feelings or attention towards our beloved one. Apparently, this feeling comes when we have met the perfect person to spend the rest of our life with. Even though this kind of relationship will face ups and downs but in the end, it does not matter at all because the love between two people will conquer all.
The Greatest Love
This kind of love is the purest love of all the love that ever existed in this world. In Islam, we believe that Allah has 99 names and one of them is Al Wadud which means “the loving one”. It clearly shows that love towards god should be the greatest love because God loves us very much. If God is not the loving one, there will be no Earth. Therefore, we could never exist at all!
For me, love is the most powerful force in the world. Love can conquer all. Only love can stop the war. And without love, definitely I won’t survive.
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