Love is the most beautiful feeling on Earth, given to a person from above. Love is the most incomprehensible and mysterious phenomenon in the emotional life of people. It is love that makes us do rash things: good and vice versa. Happy love inspires a person, makes him able to soar above the earth.

Each of us has seen a man in love, perhaps he was in his place: how happy his eyes are! They sparkle like stars in a moonless night sky... The gait becomes light and weightless: behind the back, invisible, unfortunately, for others, wings have grown... A person who is in this state discovers previously unknown abilities and talents in himself. One person wakes up with a poetic gift, the other takes up brushes and paints. Lovers want to shout to the whole world about their feelings. Their heart, soul and mind are too full of emotions to remain silent.

But those who have had the misfortune to experience a love disappointment or loss feel completely different. Their hearts are torn with pain and longing. Life completely loses its meaning. For such people, the only question becomes: "Why do I need such a life if there is no one I love more than anyone else in the world?"Only after some time the pain subsides, leaving a deep wound in the heart.

Perhaps later people who have suffered a heart loss will be unable to give and respond to a bright feeling, fearing new blows of fate. They will talk about humanity and talk about love for it. But all these are just empty words...

Humanity, in my opinion, is really much easier to love than a specific person. This love does not require any daily confirmation, nor any costs — material or spiritual. All of humanity will not be able to make claims on small things, will not argue and quarrel about and without.

True love for humanity begins with love for your loved ones, for those who surround you. And let the banal phrase " Love your neighbor” not seem to us something unreal and supernatural: great love begins with a small one.

Love is not just beautiful words. Love is a great work: daily, persistent, sometimes even too hard. Having fallen in love with a person, you are obliged to take care of him, to be always there at the right moment. It is not for nothing that when entering into marriage, lovers swear to be together “in sickness and in health, in sorrow and in joy”. Without mutual respect, without patience for each other, even the most passionate love will not be able to last for many years.

It is interesting that couples who have been married for 40-50 years called these qualities the main rules of happiness: patience, attention, respect. And, of course, responsibility for each other and to each other can not do without this in any way. It is very important that everyone feels a reliable shoulder to lean on in a difficult moment. I think many people will agree that without all of the above, love is not possible.

But to learn all this, you need to see your “soul mate”in a person. It is necessary to learn to restrain your emotions, if something annoys you in a loved one: it is better to tell him calmly about it. Working on yourself is the most difficult thing in love. But here it is also important not to "overdo it": you should not humiliate yourself, grovel in front of a person. True love does not need such sacrifices at all.

Of course, it is easier not to start a serious relationship if there is no desire to work. But years later, looking back at your life and not finding anything worthwhile in it, your heart will ache painfully from the aimlessly lived days. It is not for nothing that wise people said “ " Love is easy to acquire, but it is difficult to keep...”