What is love? How is like to be in love? You will not know what love is when you meet with love face to face. Love may exist very near you or may be across the ocean where your life partner lies. Without exploring, we will never know where true love is. Love, in different forms: courtly love, infatuation, love at first sight and romantic love.

Courtly love, the situation when you love someone very much but that someone does not love you back. You will try whatever you can to make one feel your love as you try to grab hold of one’s heart. However, it will only remain one-sided no matter how hard you try. Romeo, loving Rosaline very much but his love was not sent back to him. Rosaline does not have feelings for Romeo. He is just inflicting pain to himself. Romeo, trying his best to win Rosaline’s heart but she does not fall for it. Being a skillful archer, Romeo strikes Rosaline with Cupid’s arrow. With a shield, Rosaline blocked the arrow down. ‘She will not stay the siege of loving terms.’ Rosaline rejects the love-talks from Romeo. Like a flower poison from within, Romeo kept his feelings to himself. And stay in the dark, avoiding any light. Rosaline left Romeo alive but his heart is dead. It is painful when you love someone and one just does not feel it. However, this is the way courtly love is like.

Infatuation is when you love someone but the feeling is only temporary and artificial. You may love one now but maybe tomorrow, you will change your feeling about one. This feeling will not stay for long. If a relationship is carried out between a couple when one is in the state of infatuation, the relationship will not last long as it is just for that moment. Romeo was only able to describe his feelings for Rosaline in figurative languages from poetry books. He is not in reality. He is in love with an ideal and not a person. Love is supposed to be blind; you will never who you will fall in love with. Maybe you are in love with one now; you will never know when your love will be switched to another person. Infatuation, feelings changes overnight.

Love at first sight happens when you meet one face to face for the first time and you fall for one. Maybe it may not happen so easily on someone, but there is a possibility of it happening. Some say that love does not exist when you do not know one’s inner beauty. Although you may fall in love with one but one may not be in love with you. Love at first sight depends on one’s appearance greatly. Without the appearance, one will never be able to catch your attention when you two first met. ‘Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!’ Romeo described Juliet with such beautiful language; this shows that Juliet’s appearance has greatly affected Romeo. Juliet allowed Romeo to kiss her when they first met. How many strangers in this world will allow to one to kiss them when they first met? This shows that Juliet was in love with Romeo when they met for the first time. You may be able to recognise real love immediately and love is yours to grab hold of it.

Romantic love, when you do something romantic to show one how love you have for one. Describing your love is difficult but showing your love is easy. Maybe you tell one that you love one under the candle in a dark room where there is only you and one. There are more than thousand and one ways to show your love. Be it creative or traditional, your love will be greatly touched by your actions. Ideas will come to mind automatically when you want to show your lover much you love one. Only with true love, you are able to do those things as love gives you strength and courage. Romeo climbed the wall in Juliet’s house just to see her. Even though he was a risk, he was not afraid of getting killed. Climbing over the wall was already dangerous enough. Romeo was willing to drop his name to be with Juliet as names do not have anything to do with their love. Juliet was also willing to leave her family and fortune and follow wherever Romeo goes. Although they are enemies, but they still want to love each other. They are willing to give up their family and be together. It is far worse if Juliet does not love Romeo than him being put to death. This shows that how willing the both of them are to sacrifice for each other. ‘Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon.’ Romeo showing that is completely in love with Juliet and that his feelings for Juliet are much more than for Rosaline’s. Romantic love only exist when you love someone deeply form the heart.

There are so many kinds of love yet being described. We will never know which love we are in because love is blind, so are we. True love is only found after several tries. Maybe is a love at first sight or a difficult and tough journey you have to take. Love is a play, we are its puppets, being played around in different acts, and never knowing what is happening next.

Just stay happy.! :D