be sure to know the difference

What is love? Are your palms sweaty, is your heart racing, and is your voice caught within your chest? - it isn't love, it's like. You can't keep your eyes or hands off of them, am I right? - it isn't love, it's lust. Are you proud, and eager to show them off? - it isn't love, it's pride. Do you want them because you know they're there? - it isn't love, it's loneliness. Are you there because it's what everyone wants? - it isn't love, it's loyalty. Are you there because they kissed you, or held your hand? - it isn't love, it's low confidence. Do you stay for their confessions of love, because you don't want to hurt them? - it isn't love, it's pity. Do you belong to them because their sight makes your heart skip a beat? - it isn't love, it's infatuation. Do you pardon their faults because you care about them? - it isn't love, it's friendship. Do you tell them every day that they are the only one you think of? - it isn't love, it's a lie. Are you willing to give all of your favorite things for their sake? - it isn't love, it's charity. Does your heart ache and break when they're sad? - then it's love. Do you cry for their pain, even when they're strong? - then it's love. Do their eyes see your true heart, and touch your soul so deeply it hurts? - then it's love. Do you stay because a blinding incomprehensible mix of pain and relation pulls you close and holds you there? - then it's love. Do you accept their faults because they're part of who they are? then it's love. Are you attracted to others, but stay with them faithfully without regret? - then it's love. Would you give them your heart, your life, your death? Think about it for a second. -anonymous-