WhatYouThinkVWhatYouKnow's definitions

Loneliness

Being alone isn't loneliness. Loneliness is being alone when you desire otherwise.

Solitude is the wanted withdrawal of oneself. Loneliness is the unwanted withdrawal of others.

by WhatYouThinkVWhatYouKnow June 17, 2013

Lovelorn

When you finally amass the courage to hold your heart in your hands as you make your stand before them, and nothing less than an "I love you, too," will suffice, but there's no reciprocation. Where a response of indifference cuts as deep as one of rejection, causing the very heart you bore before them to bleed uncontrollably.

Sometimes loving someone means letting them be what you may not want them to be- even if that means being with someone else. It's hard to accept, I know, but loving them means letting them be THEM, not you. Despite how much you may want to, you can't desire otherwise, because you would be destroying that which you loved so much about them: that they are who they are. And to desire that- the destruction of that which makes them who they are, denying them of finding happiness outside yourself- because you can't have it, is to do the most unloving thing I can think of; for, in doing that, you wouldn't be concerned about their happiness, but only your own. If you really love them, then, let them be them, not you, and find happiness in their happiness. It's only if you're able to do that that can you say you ever really loved them at all. Even though you're lovelorn because their love wasn't provided in reciprocation, that doesn't make your love for them any less real. Take heart; you're worth it.

by WhatYouThinkVWhatYouKnow June 23, 2013

Arrogance

When the value one claims for themselves is more than that which they're due.

Those of Humility know their place; those of Arrogance think otherwise.

by WhatYouThinkVWhatYouKnow June 28, 2013

Self-awareness

The state of being in which one's participation in their consciousness is no longer passive, but active; where one does not see WITH the eye, but THROUGH it.

In self-awareness, it is not the eye that sees, but the "I" that sees.

by WhatYouThinkVWhatYouKnow August 18, 2013

Time

Something that can only be given away. So, give it to those who matter.

Love God, yourself, your friends, and your family. Give THEM your time.

by WhatYouThinkVWhatYouKnow June 16, 2013

Infatuation

Where the rose-colored lenses of the mind play their trick, filtering its perceptions to see that which it chooses to see.

In infatuation, one sees the object of their affection as they wish; in Love, one sees them as they are.

by WhatYouThinkVWhatYouKnow June 21, 2013

Love

Love is that thing, that feeling, that state of being that takes the empty isolation within ourselves and imbues it with light; the color of the canvas of our souls. The warmth that fills you as you think about the one you love is indescribable, irreplaceable, and you do nothing but smile; for there is nothing you want to do but smile; there's nothing you CAN do except smile. The memories and thoughts of them make themselves known without warning; and all you can do is resist, but you'd rather surrender. It compels you, but its coercion is freeing.

It's so much more than mere caring, mere affection, mere emotion: it's that which makes you feel most yourself; for in Loving them, you are yourself. The mere idea of losing them, or harm coming to them, breaks your heart; for you are broken with them. You are no longer two, distinct people, but one, united being; one man, one woman, one flesh.

The very aim of Love is to bind itself unto the thing Beloved. If it doesn't, it's something else- its empty shadow (and even shadows are real). Love- True, Romantic Love- is not something which you give to another, but that which you choose to give no other- for there is no other to whom you wish to give it.

There's a saying that Love is blind, but True Love isn't; for it sees things as they are- faults and all- and Loves them anyway.

These three words carry the weight of the world: "I Love you."

Person 1: "I Love you."

Person 2: "I Love you, too."

by WhatYouThinkVWhatYouKnow May 5, 2013