Love

Each person in the world experiences love differently.  Each person has a different approach to love and a different way they like to love and be loved.  Everyone has a different view on love.  And, I'm going to be using some kind of analogy-ish thing to illustrate this.
Love is at the bottom of a tall cliff.  If you want to love and be loved, you have to jump off your cliff.  Sometimes, someone will come to the top off the cliff with you and love you, even when you haven't jumped off your cliff, and they'll help you jump off the cliff.  Parents are a prime example of that.  But, there are four main approaches to jumping off the cliff.
The first approach is the approach of many children.  This person jumps off the cliff all the time, they know someone will catch them or at least believe someone will catch them and they love everyone at the bottom, even if everyone at the bottom doesn't love them.
Secondly, we have those who jump off the cliff any chance they get, but not necessarily because they're full of love.  Instead, they jump off because they're full of pain and just want someone to love them.  But they always jump off of the wrong areas and fall and get broken even more.
A third kind of person is cautious.  They'll let people on their cliff and they'll jump off their cliff, but only if they are sure someone is down there to catch them.  They don't go jumping off for every friend/boyfriend/girlfriend who says "I'll love you forever!"
And lastly, there's the person who used to be like the second person or who had too many people invading their cliff, pushing them off.  They are terrified to jump off the cliff and into love, even if they see arms reaching out to catch them and love them.  They've been hurt too many times to dare trust those at the bottom, so they sit at the top of their cliff, alone and scared, wanting to jump, but fearing pain if they do.
That just struck me the other day.  So I wrote it down and posted it.
~Katie :)