Recently, a passage named The Chaser, a story talks about what love is, impresses me a lot. I always ask myself about this question. What is love in a romantic relationship? There are two of my views as follows.

First of all, true love can not be forced. In this short but profound story, Alan, a young and poor man desiring for love, found an old man who made a living for selling certain mixture to ask for a love potion which can help himself to get love from Diana. After drinking the love potion, Diana would become fascinated with Alan. Nevertheless, the issue is that Diana will lose herself and always be dependent on him, which means that they are not fair anymore in the relationship. As soon as Alan was tired of her, he would come back to buy life-cleaner to get rid of and escape from it. That's not true love. True love is legal and independent.

What's more, love needs responsibility. It is universally acknowledged that people are over-passionate about love at first, but soon they will be weary of it and try to get out of it and find another one. It is just like a samsara. If you want to change the situation, it's vital is to know the significance of responsibility. If there are some problems in the relationship, what you should concern is not how to bury heads in the sand but to solve the problems. As people said, the weight of responsibility is the weight of life. Life is not easy so we are supposed to bear precious burden.

Basically, what people think of love is about their values. What does love mean to everyone? What should they do when something does not work? Once I have read a book wrote by Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, which has one sentence in the book I like so much. It is that "in the world of eternal reincarnation, every move bears the responsibility of unbearable burden." But the burden allows us live on the ground.