Love can be a fragile thing, guided by our past experiences, our peers, our parents, and even strangers. Love can come and go as we experience different thing, as our peers say different things, as our parents tell you what you should love in someone, or when strangers give you looks for being a couple. Only in true love will our love for one another last through it all, last through our experiences together, last through our peers saying things that may or may not be true, last through our parents telling us what to love or in some cases who to love, or when strangers give wierd looks as they pass by, thinking that is such an odd couple. There are many things flying through my mind right at this moment, even though it is 2am, my mind is still sitting here analyzing the world, and I thought back to love. A friend of mine once said, there are 2 types of love, ones that love with both mind and heart, and ones that love with just the heart. I must personally add one more type of love, one that just loves with the mind.

1. Loves with the heart and the mind - a person that loves with both the heart and the mind is one that has true feelings in their heart, and their mind. Where someone elses opinions will not sway such a love, their in it all the way and will give themselves away just to be with the one they love. This type of love is both physical and emotional attraction.

2. Loves with just the heart - someone who has true feelings in the heart, but lets the mind cancel out the feelings because of something someone said, or a preconceived notion that something is bad, ie, looks, age, etc. their hearts want to be with the person they love but their minds cannot allow them to be together. This is more of a emotional attraction without a physical attraction.

3. Loves with just the mind - someone that has no feelings for a person in their heart, but their mind thinks it does. They believe they love someone even if there are no feelings towards them. More of just a physical attraction rather than a emotional attraction.

Things have happened recently that have allowed me to reflect on what love is, and why does love come and go like this. Being a very analytic person at times, this one little question drove me up the wall for weeks. How can someone love you one moment and then the next moment pretend that they dont love you. I was racking my brain out on this until one day my friend mentioned the 2 types of love that he thought existed, and it all just fell into place. Although one person can switch from one type of love to another depending on the relationship it all ends up being sorted into those 3 catagories. I had found myself to be in full love with my ex, I had loved her fully, a type one if I may say. But she only loved me back as a type two, she had deep feelings for me, but because of her friends and family all rejecting the idea of us being together, her mind decided she did not want anything to do with me anymore. I had only realised how much she loved me when we had decided just to be friends, when we were apart and didnt see each other, just chatting on msn or over texts, we were fine. We had been able to talk like good friends should. But when we saw each other she showed me that she still did love me through her actions, and this turn of events had allowed me to move on after she fully decided she couldnt even be friends with me anymore. But even so, I am not sad, nor depressed over this. Ok well I do get sad and do miss her once in a while, but who wouldnt after losing someone that they loved so dearly.

Sorry that was a long read, I just had to get it off my mind and on "paper" if you read it all, I congratulate you on being a very patient person!!! YAY!!!