Love

     Love: a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. You see love everyday, whether you see it in public affection, or in the little things. Love comes to us in all sorts of ways and leaves with a foresighted manner. It looks out for you. It sees you when you are weak and struggling and it sees you when you are arrogant and overbearing. It is a force to be reckoned with, it can be your comfort or your worst enemy. Love is much more than any of us. 
     To be loved is one thing, to love in return is much different. To love gives us more. It shows us how important the little things are to people. Everyone in the world needs a little love, and you may be the only person to show that too them. They may not know what it is like to have someone there to listen to them, or not have to pay for their only meal of the day. People in the world today, grow up not knowing what it feels like to be loved by the people around them. It makes me realize how fortunate I am to have the family, friends, and opportunities, that I do. And how fortunate I am to have parents that raised me to love others, no matter what. They showed me that a little love can go a long way in someone else's heart. No matter what a person looks like, no matter what their past looks like, or what they believe in, a person is a person, and they deserve the same respect and kindness. I don't know how to love without using my whole heart, I don't know what it is like to love someone just "half way". I give everyone love in the same way I would like to receive it back. To love gives us more. It teaches us more. It helps us more, than receiving it. To be kind, even though your day has gone to hell and back, strengthens your heart. Who knows, that could be the only love they receive that day. You never know what anyone is going through. Why make it worse with being unnecessarily impolite to the people around you just because your day is not going as you planned.
     Love is lacking in the world around us. Not only to people, but to the animals and the Earth. We need more love. We need more respect. People out there in the world do not know what it is like to feel compassion in their heart. They don't understand how a compliment could change their entire attitude. They don't believe in the tenderness of their peers. Love to them is non existent. You have the power to change someone's entire day. Love is an important thing, and to give that gift to someone would mean the world to them.