“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.” This is another side to Shakespeare’s love. Here he shows that love finds the perfection in the other. It does not desire for that person to become someone else; instead, it longs for the loved to be the best that she can be. Love wishes for the betterment of its lover, not who it wants its love to become. Love does not look to change lives, but be changed by the lives that it loves.
Love is not moved by imperfections, “O, no, it is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken.” No matter what the loved may do, the way love looks at him will never be altered. Even if love is constantly being hurt, it does not stop giving its love. It looks to heal. It looks to forgive and move one. Love is eternal.
Some may see love as physical attraction and pleasure, while others view it as sacred. It has been said that the concept of love is flippantly thrown around and the art of expressing true love has become close to extinction. We love through our actions and words. Love is meant to be felt and shared by all.
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