Crushes are for short amounts of time, and usually form on sight of seeing someone. It's for your personal benefit of having them.
Falling in love is long term, it can form slowly over years. You feel this way because they make you happy, and more than anything, you want them to be as happy as they make you.
personally i always thought crushes were something majorly in your head. doesn't really matter who the person actually is, it matters what you think they are, the image of them you constructed in your head. and you blush a bit thining about them, you tell your friends how cute they are and then it all sort of fades without any actual consequences.
falling in love can have similar traps but it's much stronger and it doesn't let you go out of its claws for a long, long, long, long, long time. the person you fell in love with could dye their hair plum-purple, get a mullet, vote for trump, kick a dog and you'd still, super-irrationally, yearn for them. can't shake it. they could cut your own heart out and make dog food out of it and you'd just go 'hey i have these really expensive spices i bought last week, wanna try, here, take it'. anything where love is involved chews you right fucking up and spits you out a different person. no way you wouldn't get a few scars where love is involved.
Ugh im just sad bc i like someone but know it will never work out. That's how I feel with a good friend I've had for a year or so. I really hope it's just my retarded 15 yr old hormones and it passes.
Falling in love is long term, it can form slowly over years. You feel this way because they make you happy, and more than anything, you want them to be as happy as they make you.
falling in love can have similar traps but it's much stronger and it doesn't let you go out of its claws for a long, long, long, long, long time. the person you fell in love with could dye their hair plum-purple, get a mullet, vote for trump, kick a dog and you'd still, super-irrationally, yearn for them. can't shake it. they could cut your own heart out and make dog food out of it and you'd just go 'hey i have these really expensive spices i bought last week, wanna try, here, take it'. anything where love is involved chews you right fucking up and spits you out a different person. no way you wouldn't get a few scars where love is involved.