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What is love?

Love is an emotion, love is an idea, love is a dream, and love is someone's last wish. Love is overpowering. Love is empowering.

Love makes you silly, love makes you happy, love makes you crazy, and love makes you stupid. Love is the reason for the feeling of forty thousand butterflies in your stomach at the sight of a certain person. Love is that instantaneous smile that appears on your face when you see them.

Love makes the world go round. Love is everything.

Love changes people, some for the better, and some for the worst. You can be the most independent, self-sufficient person there is, but when you fall victim to this emotion, you are irrevocably changed. You become dependent on that person, you care about them so much that it hurts.

When they smile, you smile. When they hurt, you hurt.

Love is uplifting; it can pull you out of any depression. Love shines a light on all that darkness. Love makes you feel on top of the world.

But when it's gone, nothing feels right. When you let the love of your life slip through your fingers, there is no worse feeling. The aching in your heart is painful enough, real enough to make you believe that your heart is physically breaking. No amount of drugs or alcohol can take that pain away; neither can crying until you become dehydrated.

Distracting yourself with other things, whether that is a new hobby, a new 'love', burying yourself in work, or inflicting more pain to yourself, will only take your mind away from the heartbreak for a little while. The thoughts, the memories, the old feelings and the new feelings all come surging back the moment your mind is clear. And then it's like you can feel your heart tearing to tiny, jagged pieces all over again. Each and every time you relive this, the pain gets stronger.

You want to hate this person with every part of your broken self, but you can't.
You can't because you still love them and you hate yourself for that. Forgiveness isn't easy, but it is necessary.

In order to move on, you need to forgive the person who hurt you. Only then will you allow yourself some peace of mind. Through forgiving, you'll allow yourself the chance to be happy, the chance to feel alive again, the chance to be free.

And then, just maybe, you'll fall in love with someone new.

Only this time, the feeling will be different. You'll know what love feels like so you'll cherish every beautiful moment of it. You'll also know what heartbreak feels like so you'll try your hardest to never make this person feel that way. And you will always mentally prepare yourself for another painful goodbye.

The excitement of your first love will always be with you and so will the pain of your first heartbreak. But you owe it to yourself to take these experiences and learn from them.

Love changes people.

Once you've been in love, you will never be the same.