Love is far from loving someone and expecting the person to love you back. Love is not all about buying or expecting gifts, going out on dates, being attached emotionally and physically to someone. But love is sacrifice, endurance, self denial, self-love, patience and losing.
I know so many people believes love is loving someone and expecting the person to love you back in return if not, then they will say that's not love. I know a man that helped two ladies that graduated from college of nursing and secured jobs for them without demanding anything from them. The man didn't asked them to pay money or asked them to go out with him. Even the ladies thought at the end of everything the man might asked them for something in return, either money or to sleep with them because of the way the people or country has make people do a lot of silly and careless things without good conscience just to have whatever they are looking for.
So many people don't longer believe someone cannot help a person without demanding for something in return. There's no real and sincere love in the heart of many people anymore. If I cannot get something from you then I won't help or love you, that's how People does things these days. People see love as being emotionally and physically attached to a lady or man , got attracted to the person physically if not you doesn't love the person.
Some people will argue that if you buy someone a gift and the person didn't buy you any gift in return then the person don't love you. But I want you to know that you can still love someone that doesn't love you back. You can buy someone gift and don't expect any gifts in return from the person. You can get emotional attachment to someone yet the person doesn't feel the same way about you, is still love.
Love must not be mutual all the tims. You can love someone and be geniuly happy for the person even the person is another relationship with someone else. You can be happy seeing other people doing well and excited even if things are not working out well for you at a particular moment.
The heart of a true lover is a heart that sees rejection as lessions, being ignored as not being ignorant.
A heart of a true lover sees being rejected as self-denial and being love as self-love.
Therefore, love should not necessary be measured in the level of the amount of gifts one buy for another person, money one gives to the other person, being attracted emotionally and physically to someone and expecting it same in return.
As the Bible said " Love those people who doesn't love you and love your enemies as you love yourself"
Love is total commitment and sacrifices for one another. Let love lead and spread out love genuinely among people you found yourself with in the society.
Love is truly a beautiful thing and is more beautiful when you give out and hasn't received back from the same people.
I hope you enjoyed reading through, I love you all!!