The Valpo Core Reader
 

Authors

Sonia Hernandez

Document Type

Love and Friendship Essay

Publication Date

2005

Excerpt

Love...some swear by it; others, well, just swear at it. There is no doubt that love is one of the most wonderful, confusing, maddening, and delirious emotions that we experience in our lives. While we know how this particular emotion makes us feel, being able to define it is more complicated. What is it about this four-letter word that makes it so hard to define? Why is there not a clear-cut answer to what love is? Surely someone must hold the answer, right? The only thing we can know for sure is that only through personal experience, can we being to understand one-tenth of what love really is. While I still am not fully able to comprehend what it entails to love or be loved, I do know that what little knowledge I now possess was largely in part because of my mother.

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