Love Or Lust? - by Emman

I sometimes wonder if love is lust.Or if lust is love.Maybe we've just spent so much time calling one by the other's name that we've forgotten there was ever supposed to be a difference. People always talk about love like it's something pure,Something sacred,Something that makes you want to know someone,Their fears,Their habits,Their ugly sides,The parts they hide from everyone else. But lust?Lust wants the surface,The body,The smile,The way their eyes look when they want you. And somehow, we've gotten so good at confusing the two.Maybe that's the problem.We're taught to chase love.But nobody teaches us how to recognize it.So we see someone beautiful.We want them.We think about them constantly.We imagine touching them, kissing them, having them all to ourselves.And we call it love. Because apparently wanting someone badly enough is supposed to mean something.But does it?I don't know.Maybe love is just lust that survived long enough to become something else.Or maybe lust is what love looks like before we actually get to know someone.We spend so much time trying to separate them.Love,Lust.Two different things.Two completely different feelings.Yet look around.Everywhere I look, they're tangled together.Movies,Songs,Books,Relationships. People say I love you when what they really mean is I want you.And sometimes they say I want you when what they really mean is I don't want to lose you. Maybe that's why relationships are so confusing.We're all chasing something we can't properly name.Some people want someone's body,Some want their attention,Some want their affection,Some want to possess them,Some want to be wanted. And somewhere in between all of that. someone inevitably calls it love.Maybe humans were never very good at telling the difference.Maybe we don't even want to.Because lust is easy.Lust doesn't require patience.It doesn't require understanding.It only requires desire. Love?Love asks questions.Love waits.Love stays when the excitement disappears.Love sees the things lust ignored and decides whether they're worth staying for.And perhaps that's what makes love so frightening.You can satisfy lust in a moment. But love?Love demands that you keep choosing someone long after the moment is gone."So which one is it?" Love.Or lust.I suppose most people will never know.They'll chase one while believing it's the other.And perhaps the strangest part is...sometimes they'll find exactly what they were looking for.They just won't recognize it.Because they were too busy looking for something else.

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