Love doesn't last a long time?
Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 8:27 PM

Love or 'the sparks' are temporary.

According to my mom, after marriage, 'love' only lasts several months, or if you're lucky, a year. I'm talking about the cheesy, 'I can't live without you baby ):' love. Where you guys say cute comments to each other and act real corny.

After the first year or so, people live together because they've grown something called 정. Which is a combination of compassion, empathy, a bond on a very soulful level. It's a connection that you form with people that you are with. The 'connection' grows very strong, therefore you guys live together and realize, you need each other in order to survive. You realize you can't live on this Earth alone.

You learn to love the things they do; even if they do annoying and stupid things at times. You begin to understand and learn everything about them, and even see their 'embarrassing moments'. Sooner or later, they're a huge part of your life; they become your life. They're always there, in the morning when you first wake up looking like shit, in the bathroom, at work, when you're cooking dinner, etc. They see almost everything that you do.

You go through hard times and enjoy happy times together as well. You create precious, once in a life time memories with that one person, which makes it almost impossible to let them go. Love turns into 정, and I believe that 정 is stronger than love.