Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Love and Like


“Does she love me, or she just like me?” People are always confused with the definitions of love and like. These two kinds of relation should be parts of the most important things in a person’s life. I think nobody wants to say that he doesn’t need love from his family and friends. Even though sometimes there are some people who love to live alone. However, they may desire love and friendship. At least, they love themselves. I find that there are three differences between love and like.

First of all, the feelings of these two things are totally different. If you love somebody, you may miss her every second. When you think of her, you might think “what is she doing? Does she miss me as I miss her?” Especially at night, people usually think of many things before sleep. For this reason, people may be in a difficult condition of falling asleep. It is said that the feeling of love is so strong that it affects a person’s daily life. On the other hand, people should feel much weaker if he just likes someone. For example, you won’t miss your friend in a whole day if there is nothing special happening to him even though he is your best friend. When something reminds you of him, you should be pleased and think about the old days between you and him.

In addition, the time you spend on your lover should be different from what you spend on your friends. “I want to stay with you forever,” this is the most famous quote when someone has fallen in love with another. People always hope to stay with the one they love. It is worth spending a whole life on her. However, I don’t think you will stay together with your friends every day. Although people always say: “love is temporary, friendship is forever,” they really want to accept that love is forever.

Finally, the behavior in these two situations is different. You may become crazy when you are in front of the person you love. Even if you are so shy, you may want to show her your admiration. Flowers and special gifts are very common, but you won’t be bored when you do the same thing every day. You might remember all the special days of her and become gentle when you spend time with her and her friends. Nevertheless, liking someone will make you be excited. You just keep your style and do what you did before. Moreover, you won’t mind showing your disadvantages to your friends.

If you want to know much deeper about love and like, just imagine that love is wine and like is water. Wine may put you into a different condition. In contrast, you just need water and won’t be excited when you have it. Besides, love is more desirable than like for a person. And then people will look forward to meeting their lover but not their liker. It is impossible to decide which one is better, but we do want to get what we need and what we are lacking.

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