What is true love?

Though I still don't have a computer (still broken), I decided I could do a little post about something I started thinking about again earlier today: True Love.

Over the past couple of years I came to believe two.. let's call them "truths". 

Truth #1:  When one truly loves a person, that person will forever occupy a part of ones heart, no matter what. The feelings might lessen, but it will never completely cede.

Truth #2: In order to love a person, the heart must be free of any kind of intense feelings for someone else. Because one cannot give their heart completely to one person while longing/missing/still thinking about somebody else.

Now if you add these two 'truths' together, I concluded that one can only fall in love once because if you love one person and they will always occupy a part of your heart, then one will never have a 'pure' heart to give to somebody else. Makes sense? 

Now I don't know if this could change over time, as we all change and we learn to ignore certain feelings we might have had for somebody in the past. Or if we can actually 'fall out of love'. Or does love, or a type of obsession we might call love, make us blind and we can always be caught in a persons net, making the relationship and the other person (maybe even ourselves) into something they're really not, because we want it to be that so badly*. Only time will tell....

On that note I will also share my favorite quote ;)

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails."

    -- Corinthians 13:1-13       

*That on the other hand raises the question whether we aren't actually how we are perceived instead of who we claim to really be.... To be is to be perceived (Tuesday, May 24, 2011)