What is love? | An experience

akaem (35)in #writing • 7 years ago

I remember being in a bus... It was like 3:50pm and I was on my way to english classes and a sir around his thirties sat next to me, he had two kids with him but they sat somewhere else. I think 20 minutes had passed when he recieved a call from his wife... They were talking about their day, it seemed like they haven't seen each other since the morning. I remember a part of the conversation where he was talking to another son, and saying a lot of things like "I love you, I love you sooo much, send me a kiss!" and then talking to his wife again, and he said a lot of "I love you" to her too. I took a moment to look at him.. He seemed so happy! and he was staring at his phone... I made a summary in my head of the conversation and he spoke to his wife with such a positive energy... I was curious, I haven't seen things like that before... So I started thinking about the word he repeated the most... "love", but, what is love? How do you recognize you're in love? How do you feel it?

I decided I had to ask him.

I was so scared, I'm not a person who talks to random people so I took a deep breath and asked him.

Excuse me sir, I have a question for you... but for you, what is love?

His answer got me so shocked.

I can't tell you that much beacause I'm about to get off the bus, but sweetie... Love... love is something free, Is something that you might not need in your life, but you think everything's betther when that someone or that something you love is in there. It's something free because you feel the necesity to let that thing or person be, next to you... You can't hide something or someone, that's obsession, and that's not a good thing.. So Love.. is sharing freedom, enjoying freedom together as a one.. I don't know, I might be wrong, who knows...

This happened to me, I wanted to share it with you guys...