Love at first sight myth or reality?

Bulgaria
July 3, 2011 11:20am CST
Since i was a little girl I watched movies and saw how people fall in love at the moment they see each other and I wondered how magically must that be. Now I am a grown up and I never felt something like this. Have you? Is it possible to recognize your soul mate from one single sight or is it just another lie like Santa Claus and the easter bunny?
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@angie20 (191)
• Philippines
4 Jul 11
I don't believe in love at first sight. Admiration may possibly happen but love is quite impossible for love is not an easy feeling to give to a stranger.
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• Philippines
4 Jul 11
For me love at first sight is just a myth because you cannot be inlove on the first time that you saw the person. I think it is better if you call that as an admiration on first sight not love at first sight.
• Australia
4 Jul 11
Well it's not like Sant Claus but i think there is more to finding your soul mate to catching a quick glance. I do believe in love at first sight and i believe that you can meet someone and contect with them strait away. I don't think that you should take this attraction lightly when you feel it.
@syaryel (155)
• Malaysia
4 Jul 11
i think "love at 1st sight" do exist but its unsustainable..frankly speaking, its kinda like animal instinct, where potential mate judged purely through visual..but "yes" everybody experienced it ~ including me..still my verdict is final..and its a "myth"
• India
4 Jul 11
Well love at first site, I think its really works because when i saw a girl first time i falled in love with them and now she is my wife and still I love her very much. I dont know what was that but i know that i really love my wife. I believe in love at first site because i believe that there are a girl for every man in the world.
• United Kingdom
4 Jul 11
I always do not believe love at first sight really exist, at least that can never happen to me. In my deep heart, love should come gradually in time. How a man and a woman love each other when they know nothing about each other? Even they have good feelings to each other, that cannot be love, at least not true love. True love needs the two to be well acquainted with each other; their temperaments fit each other and they want to live with and support each other whatever happens to them. Only I can say is that love at first sight is just a good feeling.
@Celanith (2327)
• United States
4 Jul 11
Very very rarely does falling in love happen at first site. You do not know that person and his/her character or personality or his/her family, history or back ground. You can grow to love someone after a friendship but to fall in love is about the physical outward appearance not the inner person and who they really are. So basically it is lustful desire more than true or genuine love that will last one for a life time.
@elmiko (6630)
• United States
4 Jul 11
i don't know about love at first sight but i know there is lust at first sight.
@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
4 Jul 11
At first sight, it could not be love yet! I would say it is attraction and the reason is merely physical. One could be attracted because of the ways she looks, the way she moves, the way she speaks and vice versa. I would agree though that this first sight attraction can possibly develop into love. But to say this physical attraction is already love is wrong. Love covers more than just the physical because a person who truly loves looks beyond the outside and physical things.
@bird123 (10632)
• United States
3 Jul 11
Movies have a limited time to tell the story. They have to move fast. On the other hand, there are those who do experience love at first site. I think most need more time to discover more in order to know for sure. A good test of true love is that it's not going anywhere so if you hurry, you might make the mistake that it's really no more than lust, not true love at all.
@uchelink (200)
• Nigeria
3 Jul 11
when see someone for the first time you find him/her attractive i call it lust. It happened this way in the process of geting lust you find love. I think It works but is very rare.
@dream_ozn (1754)
• Singapore
4 Jul 11
Well, I'm not really sure. Sometimes I do believe, while at other times I don't. Sometimes it seems like true, sometimes it just too good to be true. I think most of the time, we just see each other and have a good feeling for the other person. If they start to spend time together, and end up being a couple, they'll just attribute it to love at first sight when in fact, their love is also developed over time. I think there's nothing so magical as love at first sight. If there really it, I would be glad to experience it myself!
• India
4 Jul 11
o ho very nice discussion! actually its human nature to admire the beauty which the eyes tend to capture its glimpses. and from eyes the sensation passes to the magical controler of the love sensation-the heart. so the beauty itself make someone fall in love. but it's not only beauty but many a time any element of personality of a person can bring the liking sensation which tends to convert in love. by now its clear that i believe in the 'love at first sight'. it happens in life of a lot of people but it is also true that the percentage of successfulness is low as compared to love feeling which people start to develop slowly and slowly by spending considerable time with someone and know each others internal qualities and not just the beauty thing.
• United States
4 Jul 11
I think love at first sight is possible....!! It's a wonderful thing.
@xannex (254)
• Philippines
3 Jul 11
I experienced that too but not as magically the movies show. It's really not love for me, it's just getting attracted to the person. I wish we'll really experience this magical love at first sight. :)
• United States
3 Jul 11
I think it is definitely possible to like someone at first sight, and maybe you are an accepting , nice person but without knowing their attitude and if they like you back I would say love at first sight is near impossible. Perhaps it is, but I dont believe it.
@drasnian (548)
3 Jul 11
I don't know if I believe in this or not. I think realistically love at first sight is more like "lust" in first sight - surely it is the person's personality that you fall for (even if that is the first joke he makes!). I was certainly interested in my partner as soon as we started talking, but he started dating someone else soon after that time so I disregarded it, and we became friends instead, without my ever mentioning my feelings. I had no interest in splitting their relationship up so I put my feelings aside and dated someone else for a while. Now, 6 years later, my partner and I are coming up to 3 years together, and I tease him for the fact that he didn't realise I liked him back then, while he says he thought I was out of his league! So we both felt something then, but I think love would be a stretch - we've both grown so much as people back then, I doubt we could have really felt something this strong.
• India
3 Jul 11
Well many a times it happens when we young and immature. It has happened to me on several instances and till today not one has worked out. But in many of my friends life it has worked out well. It is something that happens all of a sudden when you least expect it and its a nice feeling. I have now moved on from things like that and try to get to know the person more better before commiting myself to anything. It helps as you know what you are into and also helps in the relationship as well..
• India
3 Jul 11
Well i also don't believe in love at first sight..but i think you can like somebody at first site that may lead to falling in love with him/her..I have always felt that you just don't suddenly start loving someone..you eventually fall in love with a person..falling in love requires a lot of time...
• India
3 Jul 11
Love at first sight is the phrase given when an adult mind acts like a child's mind and sticks to a single toy-i want that!!! That's what i feel is, love at first sight...to get in love, you need to know a person. Attraction and love are two different things...