Love Vs Like

Love Vs Like

Just another young woman, like many of you, who still hasn’t found their true love. Many
have had their share of bad boys, nice boys, middling boys...and just boys. Most have dated, had
relationships, broken up, been broken up with, been mucked around and mucked someone
around as much as the next girl. The difference between like and love is a murky one. It’s like
asking someone if their cup of tea is sweet enough. How do you know it’s sweet enough? Who
defines sweet ‘enough’? What is ‘sweet’ and what’s not anyway? As you can see, there’s a
whole other philosophical network of questions that springs up when one asks a question like
this. How do you know whether you love someone or just really, really like them?
The word ‘love’ is thrown around so much nowadays. There are the shallow ‘lovey-
dovey’ crowds who say they absolutely love everything, there are girls and guys who fall in love
at the drop of a hat – often with an attractive stranger they met on the bus only to find out three
months down the road that he/she is a stripper or just plain weird. People who fall in love at first
sight might show the most passion of any couple you see on the street, but they are also the ones
forming the high divorce rates we see nowadays. On the other extreme, there are those who
don’t believe in love. They’re the strictly science crowds who claim that love is a load of
gibberish and that it’s all atoms working in overdrive. They analyse everything to death and
come to the conclusion that love is a mutually agreed upon illusion. So with all these
contradicting theories floating around, how does a girl know she’s found ‘True Love’? Does it
even exist? I don’t know about you but if it does, I’m personally kinda wishing some of that
fairy dust will blow in my direction.
So I decided to ask the longest-lasting couple I know: my grandparents. “Grandma”, I
said over the phone. “What’s love?” This surprised my grandma to no end   I have a very...