I believe love makes the world go round. It is a beautiful feeling and connection. Everywhere you look there is love; your eye may be blind to some love though. Love comes in many different shapes and forms: the love a dad has for his son, a wife has for her husband, a girl has for her dog, a man has for his work, a woman has for her house, and I could keep going on and on. Love can be between two people, like a relationship, or between many, like a family or friend group. Love can be towards your pet, job, hobby, or an item. It truly is everywhere. 

I believe that love binds our world together. Without love you wouldn’t have passion, loyalty, hope, goals, motivation, and even other emotions. Why do most working adults get up in the morning and go to work? It may seem obvious, but people forget why they do what they do. Either they are passionate about their work and simply go to work because they love their job, or they could hate their job and go to work so they can make money for the family they love. They could be making money so they can do the things they love and buy the things they love. Each individual has a different motivator, but love is the underlying purpose of people’s days.

Everyone in this world has at least one person they are connected with– a co-worker, family member, friend, neighbor, boyfriend or girlfriend. You may live under a rock, but, even so, there is at least one person you interact with. A relationship with love does not have to be romantic. For example, I love my friends and family. Having that feeling of loving someone else or knowing that someone else loves you is unbeatable. 

I also believe that self love is the most important part of mental health. Practicing self love could look like you speaking kindly about yourself, making time for yourself, or fueling your body with the right things it needs. When you have self love, you can be a better person for the people around you.   

But losing a love is a very hard thing. It’s known to many people, break ups can be tragic and sad. It takes people sometimes months to recover. My mom once told me that not only relationships have break ups, but you can have friendships break ups, hobby breakups, and job break ups. All the times when you lose love it can have the same effects as a break up. I think that this even further shows my point that love is so important. If you can spend your time being sad over a lost love then love is definitely valuable.    

I believe that when love is shared and spread the world becomes a better place. People find a purpose, and it tends to spread to others. You may have heard the quote that love is contagious, and it is. When you do things in love you will not only be affecting you, you will be affecting many others that then will do the same thing, creating this domino effect. So do things in love knowing that you are slowly changing the world.