TRUE LOVE.

What is love? I can only tell you what the bible says love is. That is God himself, in 1John 4:8,16 it says God is love. It only goes to say that love is the greatest gift that God gives because it is God himself that is given. Love is such a strong word....it has such a tremendous impact on us all. We all ache for it. Love is a living and breathing organism on this fragile Earth of ours......it is the one treasure we value more than fame, fortune, & glory.
Is true love really blind? In a perfect world love should always be blind. You should love someone not for what you can see on the outside, but for how he or she makes you feel on the inside. When you truly, deeply love someone you will be able to see them through faults and all. You should be able to forgive and forget. You will be able to compromise and settle your differences because of the truth that is your love. Love is the reason that people that have differences are able to find each other and live happily ever after. I have found that it is best to reach for a lover that sees you on the inside as well. Looks fade and attitudes shift, but when you truly love someone you will be able to fall again and again blindly and with haste. There are no rules in love. You can love someone at first sight, you can love someone in a month, or maybe you can't fall for a year...but eventually when you fall whatever your time table is it will be the best fall if it is done blindly and with faith. Faith is the cornerstone of any relationship. You have to have faith in yourself, faith in your partner, and faith in LOVE! Blindly loving someone is the only way to truly love someone. It allows for the possibility of a happily ever after!
Love is blind represent the first phase in "the Love process" when people fall in love and they see the one they love like they want to see them. Love is blind is often associated with people who don't deserve your love and can often be compared with love at first sight. The first phase of your love looks wonderful and creates passion, physical attractions but the next phase is critique. You discover "the real person" behind these feeling and can be totally different. It is possible you will find out a totally different person with a behavior which can't be tolerated in a relationship. As long you overlooks this behavior, the statement "love is blind" is true. Once you see the reality if he/she deserves your love; you can speak of true love and in my opinion "true love" is not blind. True love is, in fact, anything but blind. Infatuation may be somewhat in need of an optician, but true love has perfect vision. Infatuation is blind. Attraction can have impaired vision. True love is not blind nor visually impaired. True love can see into the depths of our heart and soul with a clarity and vision beyond compare. Infatuation and attraction deny any imperfections. True love embraces them. Love's keen vision does not miss a detail. Really loving another person entails seeing their flaws and making the decision to love them anyway. A true love is not blind. In fact, it brings us closer to reality. It widens and broaden our mind and helps improve our vision to harmonize ourselves with the realities of the world. The person we love is acceptable to us with all his/her shortcomings, flaws or defects. It does not mean that his/her love darkens our reason and numbs our mind towards our beloved. True love is never conditional. It never chains or shackles our mind and body, rather it liberates the lovers of all chains of compulsion and obligations. Now days, we, due to our immaturity, tend to take every crush as love. Even infatuations are taken or considered as true love. Hardly or little do we realize that a genuine and true love is far greater than the things they are proud of.
True love takes time, nurturing, and commitment to grow. It is your heart's home and the place where your soul feels safe. Through heritage, true intimacy, and friendship it blooms in our lives to form a haven. True love will withstand the broken promise. We forgive the fault or weakness that leads our partner off the path we are trying to pave together. This is the big difference: true love forgives it does not excuse. Infatuation makes excuses. It blames someone or something other than our partner for his or her acts. Jealousy is insecurity projected onto our partner, a poison that forces our partner to exceed a standard of behavior we cannot meet. When we truly love another, we acknowledge our insecurities and accept that no one is perfect. We can allow our partner to grow without fear of them growing away from us. As adults, when we experience true love, we build a home. Not a building of stone or wood, or even a tent pitched on the roadside but an emotional refuge. We do not seek to bar the door against our partner's leaving. Rather, we assure our partner that when they must go away for a time it will always be safe to return. Our refuge requires friendship to take root. We do not expect more of our friends than we are willing to give. We do not require perfect agreement. We encourage debate and foster growth while encouraging their faith in their abilities. We help them expand their horizons. True love does all that and takes the extra step. It nurtures our growth so we can blossom. Conflict becomes a stepping-stone in our path to expand our horizons and true love cheers us along. If time or circumstance should take our love away, we are able to cherish the time we had rather than mourn the time we lost.
It's time we realize that old proverbs may not always be true, given the world of difference between past and present. In this materialistic age, many concepts have been altogether changed and being replaced by new ones. No one can deny the great significance of love, for it is our inherent feels and noble quality every one loves to possess. What we need is to understand love and get inspiration from it to make our life successfull.