What is loving?

Ashutosh Dubey
2 min readSep 15, 2020

Love is a really big word. Well for me, it is. People love different things differently. Some love their pets more than humans. Some love the things they have. For example, I love my laptop. It is old and it sometimes work like a total garbage, but I love it. And some love humans more. And in this article, I’m going to talk about the "human" love.

To go more in details, I’m going to talk about a post I read on Reddit few months ago. I can’t find the post right now. But if I’ll, I’ll link it up here. So the post was about a girl who used to think her significant other doesn’t show her that much love, the way she shows.

So she was upset for this. She thought her significant other doesn’t love her. She was the type of girl who showers someone with love. Like telling those "love words" all the time. And reminding them that she "love and care" about them. But her significant other was not this type. He didn’t use to tell her those "love words" all the time. In that post, she wrote first few paragraphs about what she used to think. And she was getting upset more and more everyday. But one night, she forgot to put her electric toothbrush for charging. She had an electric toothbrush and every night she put it in charging so she can use it next day. But she forgot to do it. And next day she woke up, she found her toothbrush fully charged. And then she realized. She realized that her significant other been doing these small unnoticeable things and she never looked at them. Like putting her clothes in washing machine. Doing her some other works and chores, and helping her. And that is his way to show love.

People show love in different ways. Sometimes we forget, or sometimes we don’t know. We get upset for not seeing or getting the same we are doing. And someday, we’ll sit and realize. It’s all different but it’s still loving. And that is all that matters. The way they show it, it’s true and pure.

To understand this, we need to be open. The way we do is not the only way. Everyone's different. Their choices will be different. Their likings and dislikings will be different. And that's what make us us. So, how people show love will always be different. But their will be love and that is what matters.

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Ashutosh Dubey

I'm a Product Designer. I love to watch movies and listen to music. And I write occasionally.