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Saturday, September 04, 2004

The Difference of Love and Crush ~<3

All right! All you knuckleheads out there who cant tell the difference between love and crush, BETTER READ THIS!

I know a lot of people constantly send e-mails which contain stuff like, "How would you know if you're in love" or yada yada bla bla.. right?? And inside contain stuff like, (for girls) If you feel your heart skip a beat whenever you're around him, you're in love. Well ladies and gentlemen, that's totally bullshittt [no offense for the language. Just how frustrated some people can be when they think they're in love and they're in cloud 9] because that is not love. It is a CRUSH. How to know you're in love or if it's a crush? Well I'm gonna tell you know. (quote: Cry me a river.. this is hard to explain)

LOVE - A lot of people mistake crushes or infatuations as love. But love is something more vague and deeper than that 'he's-so-cute-and-I-feel-so-dreamy-around-him' nonsense ok. Love may break or seal people's hearts but if one of those had happened to you, you'd know the feeling completely and would understand what love is. Love is a beautiful thing but its also very fragile. If you're infatuated and think you're in love, that's an even sadder case cause very very, i repeat, VERY few cases which concerns love, develops from infatuation. Love starts with friendship and you'd only realise you're in love much later. In fact, you won't even know that weird feeling you have. Its not that dreamy feeling you have when you think of that person, but its more a bugging feeling of that person. E.g, When he's not around, you feel as if something is missing but you don't know what. if you KNOW whats missing and if u say its him, then girl, ur infatuated.

Love basically is responsibility. Its not about what you can do with the special person like holding hands or cuddling together [PEOPLE! keep your thoughts HERE! God knows where it'll wonder off to.Don't go any further than frenching oK! I don't mean it that way!] .Love is about being with that person. Its not what you do with him/her that counts but being with that person for who he/she is as a person that you find happiness with. Love is priceless in that sense. Money or looks can't buy you love. Only your heart can truly get love if you give it back. If there are people who still are questioning of how to tell if you're in love or in a crush, ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTONS, and answer them TRUTHFULLY because you're heart will answer and don't LIE to yourself.

1:: If that special person was handicapped for life and would be bedridden forever, would you still stay by his/her side?
2:: If one day he/she were to lose EVERYTHING, (money, family, friends, social status, bla bla) would you still love him/her and go through life even though he/she might end up as a begger or a social outcast?
3:: If that special person has kidney cancer, would you donate your kidney just to save him? And if you do so, would you still want to if your lifespan would be reduced by 20 years?
4:: If you were to know that that special person was to be run down by a car in an accident, and you could rewind time, would you take his or her place and be the one who would be run down? ANSWER THIS HONESTLY!

If your answers are YES to all these, you are definately in love but if its no, then i think you'd know the answer yourself because you're not ready for a life-long commitment. Why do i say that? Its basically because, Once you're in love, its hard or maybe even impossible to love another whole-heartedly because the one that you loved from the start would forever remain in your heart; whether or not you realise it. That's why marriages which break up, and the spouse goes and re-marries, its hard not to compare your previous spouse to your current one [if ur previous spouse ill-treated you then its another case] and you'd recall the memories you spent together as a couple. Its human nature. Humans are meant to be selfish.

Don't be too disheartened if you find you're not in love because someone could like someone more than a crush but YET not be in love. How do u know? Well basically,

1:: A crush does not last long. It fades away. And if your doesn't, its more than a crush already.

2:: You may fantacise about being romantically involved with that person but yet you like the person for who he/she is regardless of anything. That means that its more than a crush. Because in crushes, you like the person's LOOKS or wealth of bla bla and fantacise about being romantically involved in her/him just for that temporary thrill and excitement and not for the PERSON.

3:: You jump everytime your phone vibrates or your phone rings, thinking its that person who's on the other line. [Crush for this one is about the same but there is a difference that you yourself would know. Example, if you're excited because u can engage in some mushy talk then er.. its a crush but if you jump because you enjoy talking to that person who makes you feel relaxed and special, then its more than a crush. WELL JUST THINK PEOPLE I CANT WRECK MY BRAIN CELLS FOR YOU! *ahemz* ok im cool....]

4:: You think of him/her all the time and cant shake it out of your mind. You wonder what he/she's doing and you miss him/her. [People NOTE! I said thinking of HIM/HER and not thinking of KISSING OR HOLDING HANDS WITH HIM/HER] If thats so, then its more than a crush.

Well i gotta run and eat my lunch now. Thanks to all of you, my fingers are aching my brain is malfunctioning. hahahas! See yall!! ((:

Quotes:
TO be loved, and to loved is the greatest thing in a person's life.

That person gives you a SPECIAL feeling that you're unique, despite the many flaws you may have [hey no one's perfect!]

If she is perfect in his eyes, she is perfect to the world.

*All the quotes are compsed by melissa chua mei yi so its darn right copyright! DOn't even attempt to steal if not ....*shifty eyes*