Love. Is it an emotion or a state?

A bird's nest.

There are different kinds of love, but this will be all about erotic love. This kind of love is exposed and boasted in social media with the #relationshipgoals. Surely, I have seen lovers that stayed together after all these years, some started dating in high school or college. Some have gone past through the professional life and some split up after years of being together. If the number of years of being in a relationship is not the basis to a happily ever after, then what? If the mutual love may soon fade away, then what is the assurance of relationship?

This kind of love may neither build or tear you down. It's risky and it actually depends. There is no assurance in this kind of love, not in this world, not in this lifetime. It's easy to build someone and easier to break them. Some may have undergone depression, to the point of losing themselves to someone who left them shattered. It may take months, years of moving on, who knows.

Could this kind love be just a feeling, that varies often? Or is it a state, a more stable one? How can you say that you are "in love"? The word love is one of the overused English word. It's easy to commit without actually having second thoughts or self-assessment and basing the decisions purely on the current moment of being in love. Could it be that the standards of being in love is shallow to others? That actually doesn't have a deeper meaning at all? That when you feel the butterflies in your stomach, or if you think of that someone often, then its love?

Falling out of love is typical with lovers that has spent years of being together. The spark may have gone or the other person has changed or whatsoever. If then, love could be just a feeling that fade through time. But don't get me wrong, there is also a love that is everlasting. But how can you determine if the kind of love you are in the present state is worthy of marriage?

Indeed, there's a lot of unanswered questions. Love will always be one of the greatest mysteries in this world.