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Love is not an emotion.  An emotion is a temporary feeling that develops instantaneously from a specific situation.  For example, if someone breaks up with you, you are sad, or if someone tells you that you look nice, you are happy.  What we often mistake for as "love being an emotion" is actually an overwhelming likeness for that person.  It is not love.  Love is a state of being.  It is not a temporary state like, "I am angry", but a permanent state like, "I am human."

A person falls into love, and they do not have a choice about who they fall into love with.  I can't explain how or why this happens.  Furthermore, thinking someone is special solely based on the fact that you love them is a faulty accusation.  What I mean is, you do not love someone for their personality, looks, intelligence, etc.  In fact, you may not even like them at all.  If someone asks, "Why do you love this person?", the honest answer is, "I just do.  It just is."  This makes it very important to like the person you love.  It is even okay to like a person without loving them.  It is probably better, because then you are not unexplainably bound.  You know that you like someone because you have gotten to know them and enjoy who they are.  In this regard, liking someone is much more personal than loving someone.

Love is very selective in a sense that it generally does not happen very often.  Most of my friends have only been in love once or not at all.  When two people say they are in love, it is very likely that one of them is lying.  The chances of someone falling in love with a person who has fallen in love with him or her is nearly impossible because it is not up to either person to decide who it is they fall in love with.  You may want to be in love, but you cannot make it happen.

Description
Love is not an emotion.  An emotion is a temporary feeling that develops instantaneously from a specific situation.  For example, if someone breaks up with you, you are sad, or if someone tells you that you look nice, you are happy.  What we often mistake for as "love being an emotion" is actually an overwhelming likeness for that person.  It is not love.  Love is a state of being.  It is not a temporary state like, "I am angry", but a permanent state like, "I am human."

A person falls into love, and they do not have a choice about who they fall into love with.  I can't explain how or why this happens.  Furthermore, thinking someone is special solely based on the fact that you love them is a faulty accusation.  What I mean is, you do not love someone for their personality, looks, intelligence, etc.  In fact, you may not even like them at all.  If someone asks, "Why do you love this person?", the honest answer is, "I just do.  It just is."  This makes it very important to like the person you love.  It is even okay to like a person without loving them.  It is probably better, because then you are not unexplainably bound.  You know that you like someone because you have gotten to know them and enjoy who they are.  In this regard, liking someone is much more personal than loving someone.

Love is very selective in a sense that it generally does not happen very often.  Most of my friends have only been in love once or not at all.  When two people say they are in love, it is very likely that one of them is lying.  The chances of someone falling in love with a person who has fallen in love with him or her is nearly impossible because it is not up to either person to decide who it is they fall in love with.  You may want to be in love, but you cannot make it happen.