I’ve recently tweeted the following:

“ If every ‘love’ tweet I see in my timeline were real, there would be mass suicides every time twitter is down “

That tweet has triggered some reaction, some of them I can’t help considering, given the context, pretty uncalled for.

Since we are all humans, with different experiences and point of view, and since I can’t ask you all something as personal as your own definition of love, based on your deepest feelings and experiences, I am going to give you mine.

Being ready to let everything go, friends, family, comfort, money to follow someone at the other end of the world. Persist and start over without a penny to your name, in a place where you’re a stranger,  to stay with that same person, because he/she needs you. Even if he/she is  ‘only a friend’.

Staying in a city that breaks people and swallow them whole because you want to share it with its citizens, because the most beautiful thing you’ve seen is the sunrise over its buildings, proving you there’s always a tomorrow. Because everything you miss can’t compare to anything you would miss if you left. Even if you’re so often seen as ‘that weird foreigner’.

Forgetting anger, jealousy, lust, grief because he/she opened his/her door again. And be ready to take yet another bullet.

Be hungry together, because you’d rather share the hunger than see him/her in trouble.

Being broken and fix yourself because you’re his/her rock.

Feeling that there is only one home: next to him/her.

You can call me sarcastic all you want, now. But as far as I’m concerned, I need to give more than 140 characters to show my love.

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