Consider the following comments on love.
We say we love a person, but often we love who we become beside them.
To be fully known and loved anyway is what most people want and quietly fear.
Love that asks for nothing is rare, and love that admits its asking is rarer still.
To love someone is to grant them the power to disappoint you.
Some loves end not in anger but in the slow forgetting of why we began.
Write a reflective piece in response to one or more of these comments. Your essay will be assessed on the quality of your thinking and the way you express it.
A way into this prompt
A reflective thesis is that love is less a single feeling than a decision repeated daily, and that what we call love is often a tangle of need, habit and genuine devotion we never fully separate. Open with a concrete moment, the early electricity of a new attachment or the quieter loyalty that survived after it cooled. Then explore the tension between love as something that happens to us, beyond reason or choice, and love as something we choose to keep doing when the feeling thins. A useful structural move contrasts loving the actual person, with their flaws, against loving the version of them, or of ourselves, that they let us imagine. Caution: resist the romantic conclusion that real love conquers all, since some of the truest love includes knowing when to let a person, or a version of a relationship, go.