[02] || [What is Love?] || [Video/Text]

[littlelifeforms]

Greetings.

[ As is usual for Data, his message is simultaneously sent in both video and text formats. ]

There has been a weeding recently and in one week is an event known as "Saint Valentine's Day", a holiday associated with romantic love. It is an occasion in which lovers express their love for each other in a special manner, most often depending on their culture and past.

But what is love? How would you define that feeling? I have been told about love before, but it is a most... complicated emotion and no explanation I have heard truly conveyed an understanding of the feeling.

Comments

[puppy_lancer]

it depends
there's different types of love for different kinds of people
but it makes you feel special
happy
even when they're hurting you you're happy
as long as you're with them
as long as you're thinking of them you're happy
as long as they can smile, you'll do anything
become anything
love is unconditional
you can give and you can give and you expect nothing back
though sometimes you can make mistakes

[littlelifeforms]

The way you described love is similar to masochism, the reception of pleasure upon being inflicted pain. Is that what love is?

I have to say, out of all the answers I have received, this sounds like the less healthy view on love. A self-destructive feeling.

[puppy_lancer]

what wait no
how are you reading masochism into it

[littlelifeforms]

"even when they're hurting you you're happy"

Pleasure derived from pain is the definition of masochism.

[puppy_lancer]

i never said they had to hurt me
i said even when they hurt me
which means i'm not hurting all the time

[littlelifeforms]

I see.

Yet, you are happy when it hurts? It remains very interesting.

[puppy_lancer]

because seeing your loved one happy makes you happy
that's why you can accept that pain
because something giving you pain is also giving them joy

[littlelifeforms]

Does that make the loved one a sadist for feeling joy upon pain being inflicted to you?

[ It is very complicated. ]

[puppy_lancer]

not necessarily
sometimes they just don't know you're hurting

[littlelifeforms]

I see. I would say it is a "sad" situation for both party in love.

[puppy_lancer]

it can be