I tend to over complicate things. I over think and I spend long amounts of time stressing over them. I use words as a shield. I talk my way out of really talking about anything at all.

So I have decided that instead of using lots of words to talk about small things, I am going to use few words to talk about big things.

Chemically, your brain expresses different chemicals when you experience “love”. Your dopamine and serotonin levels increase and your hormones go crazy. This fact has allowed me to believe in the existence of love if only for the physical effects it has.

Love has many forms: platonic love, romantic love, family love. We, as people, experience these types of love with different people and at different points in our lives. It is hard to define love because so many forms exist. Not all love has to be groundbreaking. Some love is soft.

Love really doesn’t have a definition because its different for everyone.

As a college student who spends way too much time on the internet and is actively trying to convince my university to let me minor in either sarcasm or dark humor, I spend a lot of time on Urban Dictionary. Through all this searching, one definition, in particular, has stuck with me:

"Love is giving someone the power to destroy you, and trusting them not to" -MyLittlePwny

I don’t know who originally wrote the quote, but I think there’s a lot of truth to it. I think that, at its core, love is caring for someone so much, that you want to share a piece of you with them. You want them to know you love old music and that you despise the feel of paper napkins.

Love is being vulnerable with another person because you want them to know the intimate details of your existence, and in turn, you want to know theirs.

But with knowledge, comes power. That’s why you have to be careful who you give your pieces to. Truly loving someone is like jumping off a cliff and trusting them enough to catch you when you fall.