Persuasive Essay About Love

As ordinary individuals are navigating through life, they learn. They learn to walk, they learn to write, they learn to obtain manners, they learn to interact and they even learn to apply their talents to what they enjoy doing. No matter what, they are constantly learning something new every minute of every day - either consciously or subconsciously. So as they learn, they learn to think and feel towards their self and their peers they come across. And at one point in their lives, they come to meet that certain individual that changes their life in the brightest way yet - the one that makes them feel that intense emotion like no other. This one common emotion they think they learn, but misunderstand is love. What is love? Love is an enticing mystery to those inexperienced yet, but is a big tousle of indescribable emotions that are misunderstood but is bigger than the love and care for their own self.

You are a man eater, right? You are a fun lay, a good night, but commitment is not for you. You are fierce independence and unavailability. You prefer your own company because, you annoy yourself, but when you’re alone at least no one else has that power. When did this become who you are? Did you get hurt? A million times? Just once? Was that too much for your heart made of tender flesh? What made you this person? Are you afraid? Are you just terrified because you fall in love with someone the instant they do anything that makes your heart drop? To combat the possible pain, you swear you do not love anyone or anything at all. If you cannot be the person who does not get heartbroken once a week then you are going to be the person who does not have a heart to break.

I am part of a large family, I lived with a mother, father, three older sisters, and a younger brother. We lived in the large city of Los Angeles, California. There was no apparent infidelity that I was ever aware of in my family, but yet there seemed to be a small bit of the same crass attitude that my mother had for my father. He was stricken with a disability and unable to provide in the same manner she was accustomed. All of my siblings that could helped out in any way they could. The point is that we were a family that pulled together when needed. When I left for the military odyssey, I had no idea I would be placed in harm’s way. It was peace time. I made a surprise appearance one Christmas eve, my family was under the impression that I was still aboard ship and that I would be home in January for a visit. I secretly showed up on the front porch in full uniform, my sea bag slung over my shoulder. Holding back my own tears of excitement. I opened the front door and I stood there. For a brief moment frozen in time was my whole family, my beloved

Much has been said about love, but if you search the horizon, you will discover that most of the things written about love are either pithy or cynical.

People tend to hold onto objects because it reminds them of an important past or significant people whom they received it from. There are countless items people hold onto, one of mine is a picture of me and my siblings. Although the photo is flat and meaningless to some people, in my perspective, there is an immense depth and value to to the actual object. This picture, which illustrates what appears to be me and my siblings having a good time, demonstrates the love I have for them.

Although the definition of happiness has been changed and rearranged for as long as humans have existed, thousands upon thousands of years, some philosophers want a hard definition of it. The term happiness signifies something different depending on whom you ask. The question of “What is happiness?” has been theorized and discussed by many philosophers throughout the years, and many have their own labyrinthine conclusion that may put off the average person who just has a subconscious thought of what is happiness and why we need it and/or experience it. A few theories on happiness have emerged from people who are educated in this discussion like Matt Killingsworth, Carl Honoré, Graham Hill, Dan Gilbert, and David Steindl-Rast. All who were featured in “Simply Happy,” a segment on the “TED Radio Hour” from 2014 and they give a more modern approach on being happy throughout life and share other theories. The Tao Te Ching by Laozi was written around the sixth century BCE and is one of the classic texts in China which separates yourself from your life to achieve happiness and a more recent theory of happiness from the past teachings of the Dalai Lama, The Art of Happiness which strictly distincts happiness from desire which are often thought of as related in today’s modern society.

Cupid stepped into the mansion with a new suit from brooks brothers. He was a handsome young man who took pride in owning one of the biggest dating sites in the world known as Love Finder. However this mansion was not his but belonged to his famous mother, Aphrodite. Aphrodite had invited Cupid over to discuss a pressing matter. Cupid was met with an irritated look from his mother as he sat down at the table. Cupid asked why she had called him over and she replied saying

I watched Wallace and Grommet with my mommy all the time, that was our show. Yet I can’t really grasp at any memories about my own father. He joined the military when he was eighteen years old and married my mom on the sixteenth of January when he was 22. They had me one year and three days later. Not even six months later my dad was already deployed overseas. My mother made me a heart shaped pillow with a plastic picture frame on one side of it and it held a picture of my dad so I wouldn’t forget him while he was gone. Consequently it didn’t work. A couple years later when I was about four years old my father came back from deployment ,and when he arrived home I thought he was a stranger. My mom had to go to work that morning and usually I went with her but because my dad was home she left me with him. I cried, ran, and screamed as I tried to get away from him. I didn’t know who he was and I was terrified. When I look back on that moment all I can think about is how horribly that must have hurt him. As I was growing up he still had to keep deploying overseas and every time it was a repeat of the last. He worked in the Military up until 2013 when I was fourteen years old. It is now 2016 and I am 17 years old. We don’t get along to this day and even though he doesn’t have a job and

Can love and lust go hand in hand? Certainly, life experiences will show us that it is possible to be sexually attracted to someone, but to not love that person. Yet, life experiences will also show us that we can be sexually attracted to someone and indeed love them very much. Ronald E. Riggio, Ph.D. says love distinguishes from lust, because love, “includes a desire for physical contact and intimacy, but also caring about the other’s needs as if they were your own.” (Riggio, 2014) Lust, as defined by Merriam-Webster, as a noun, is as unbridled sexual desire. (Merriam-Webster, 2017) There is no mention of lust being concerned about the other person’s needs in that definition. Love sounds, only so very loving, but we will see later it can take someone to extremes, that lust cannot.

And now that the war is over companies aren’t getting as much money from the military so they are upping the taxes and costs of things. With Roland gone and the war ending it is so horrible. I have started to wonder, “Should I move?, Should I get a new job?, Do I take the kids out of education?”, just things like that. As these thoughts are going through my head, I heard a knock on the door. I thought it would be my kids coming home from school, so I didn’t answer. But they just kept on knocking. I thought “Oh my lord, what could it be?”. I didn’t even want to get up from crocheting a blanket for Mattie. Pretty soon an officer just left a note outside the door. As soon as I heard the vehicle drive away, I opened the letter and it read “Dear Mrs Richardson, Your husband Roland was found at a camp. He is alive, not well, but alive. We lost records of your husband but we found him. We noticed another man took off Mr. Richardson’s dog tag and shoes for his own life. That man is dead. Your husband is currently in a Hospital in Eastern Long Island. Meet at the Force office for more information…”

Always get a person's permission before you touch them. An intoxicated person can't give permission.

“Happiness is an inside job. Don’t assign anyone else that much power over your life.” ~Mandy Hale.

In 2010, my family moved to Derby, Kansas, a quaint town outside of McConnell Air Force Base. My stepdad was transferred there, and with only a few years left until his enlistment was up, we started to think we were going to be in Derby forever. However, a year later, the United States Air Force had honorably discharged him, and with a job lined up in Roanoke, Virginia, we began making plans to move again. The start date for my stepdad’s new job was two days after my baby brother was born, so he left with the rest of my family joining him two months later. My stepdad leaving the military was an eye-opener for my family, but it brought us closer and forced us to work harder to continue life the way we knew it.

Love is difficult to define, difficult to measure, and difficult to understand. Love is what great writers write about, great singers sing about, and great philosophers ponder. Love is a powerful emotion, for which there is no wrong definition, for it suits each and every person differently. Whether love is between family, friends, or lovers, it is an overwhelming emotion that can be experienced in many different ways.

Have you ever laid in bed, tired, trying to lullaby yourself to sleep with the worries that are repetitively crossing your head? What about that ten-page essay you don’t even know how to start that’s due next week or that chemistry test you should be studying your butt off for, but you work 20-hour weeks because you need the money so you can pay for that monthly car bill and so on? Insomnia hits and now all you can think about is how tired you are going to be in class the next day and how you will hardly be able to function or retain any of the information; therefore, the only solution is to stay up all night relearning the lesson you spaced out on so you can be caught up and from then on, repeating the same damn cycle. Your friends ask if