can you live without love? Options

[Winter]

I'm posting this up here coz when this was posted in another forum (kpopper) it started a MASSIVE debate. Things were never quite the same for most of us even after the topic was closed because it got really chaotic and people were practically screaming at each other...

So, can you live without love?

For me, yes I can definitely live without love. If I lose someone I really love, heck life goes on. You might just freeze right there but time goes on. Nothing stops time. As long as you still breathe, then you are still alive. That is the meaning of being alive to me. Even if a part of you dies when someone you love dies or walks out of your life, you are still alive. You eat, you walk, you feel emotions.

I wonder if someone will say they can't live without love... Coz createBlog just seems to be filled with more rasional and maured people.

[Nashvixen]

no i cannot. right now im single, but ive been so lonely lately...i really want a boyfriend. i cant imagine myself, as an adult, waking up every morning with nobody. I want a guy that i can share my life with..who understands me...and in my eyes, is the perfect man.

Loneliness is not being "unliving." Everyone at some point or another has lost someone close and feels that way. But life still goes on.
Plus, there's no such thing as the perfect man (or perfect somebody at all for that matter). Even if he seems perfect in your eyes, he'll probably have some flaws you could live without. But imperfect is okay.

Sure, but then you'd have a very short, meaningless life.

Living without love doesn't shorten your life span...lol.
And if you're talking about love from another person, I think you can live without that. There are other sources of substantial love.

At the same time, if we mean love to or from another person, then its entirely possible.  There are people who have had their entire family and friend turn their backs on them.  So then you are without people love.  Some would go searchin for it, some would feel they are better off alone.  And they may be right.  Also, there are those who may live without experiencing love at all.  Who maybe were born out in the middle of nowhere and their parents died.  Who knows.  But they may be all alone and self sufficient and never really experience the love of another.  So it depends.
And thats not really true.  None of my family loves my mother.  Before I was born she was turned away and cast out upon, because they are all a bunch of Over Christian hyporcritcal judmental people, and looked down upon my mom for having sex before marriage, and cuz she had a drug problem, and instead of like what a family should do, which is love and support poeple thru their hard times, my family prefers to turn its back and those they feel are beneath them.  bUt she lived fine on her own (aka without family, not without friends) for years before I was born.  now Lord knows, I love my mom, and she knows that, and her life is so much better now that I'm a part of it, but still, she survived, and it made her stronger.

I agree with you.

You can breathe, you can move, you can eat and carry out your daily routine, but I don't consider that really living. Without love you have nothing to live for, whether it's love for a person, a pet, a hobby, a posession etc.

You need love to live, but not to exist.

I couldn't have said it better! You don't need love to exist, but to live you do! But still you do not need "people love" to live.