Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.

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As Mother Teresa said: "The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread"... It's funny actually how this type of emotion is actually almost as common as any other. Yet it is such an elevated state of being. Being in love is for most people almost impossible to do, because how do you define it? Is being completely passionate love or just lust? Is being shy and afraid to talk to the person and just getting butterflies in your stomach sufficient to be called love or is that just a crush? Because you never know whether you really love someone until the situation calls for action isn't it? Well many people have said that love actually doesn't really exist. It's only possible to love parents, children, or God. Although I certainly do not disagree with that, I still think that it isn't impossible to fall in love with another person. 

People since time immemorial have done many unspeakable things in the name of love. I think just as there is hate, there is the possibility of love. Just as hate is flickering, according to my opinion love is as well.. It's like a fire. Starting with a mere spark, after feeding it with the correct materials, becomes a strong flame. "Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense." (Mark A. Overby) Love becomes so strong that it can overcome obstacles with its power. Love is one of the most driving components in the nowadays otherwise misguided society. 

Many are just living life because they have to according to the guidelines that are stated already. Yet what makes them, these mere powerless and hopeless beings, achieve big things? It's LOVE for their country, for their friends, their family and their partners. Love is capable of changing a person for the better. But I think that not just any "butterfly-emotion" can be called love. Sometimes it's indeed lust, or just jealousy. "My friend is with that guy who is just too good for her" and so on. I think that love in it's pure sense is nothing but good. Love with the basis of lust, jealousy, having a common enemy, or anything besides the pure feeling of wanting to always see that one person happy, is not love.