I've been thinking recently about how people throw the "l-word" around so much and realized there are different degrees of love. As long as you can distinguish a difference between them, you're golden. So here's what I've broken it down into, even though the romanticism in me is trying to persuade me to not analyze it, ha.
-Love of an inanimate object, many times similar objects are considered an obsession like in my case:certain television shows, tea, chapstick, ideals (Gibran's philosophy even though I don't know him personally) and words in general, and sometimes to an even greater degree simply by an overwhelming feeling for something (ex. The Fall, a movie that totally floored me.)
-Love of a living creature other than a human such as for a pet.
-Love of friends, typically based on a strong connection but sometimes used as a filler when one person is extremely happy due to the action of a friend.
-Love of someone that has a childish nature, known as puppy love.
-Love of a friend of the opposite sex with some degree of romanticism, actually called philos love.
-Love of a person of the opposite sex with intense romanticism many times confused with infatuation, based on physical connections (pheromones, dopamine levels going crazy) which is reciprocated and called eros love.
-Love deemed unrequited that is similar to an intense eros love which is nonreciprocating to some degree whether by choice, situation, or consequence.
-Love on a spiritual level called agape love, higher than any other degree because it is completely selfless and continuous whether or not reciprocated, the ultimate example being God.
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Mmhmm I love this. What degree of love to I feel for this? Haha, you can guess.
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