Pity vs. love

 
  Pity and love have two very different different meanings. Would you want to be pitied or loved by your best friend? To pity someone means to be around them just because you feel bad for that person. We all know to love someone is to truly love them for who they are inside and admiring his or her actions and sayings. Loving someone, in my opinion, is much better than pitying. Let's say there is a lonely animal, a wolf, in the woods all alone and this other animal, a fox, took pity of it. The fox hangs around the lonely wolf only because he felt bad for him--pitied him. But when the lonely wolf isn't alone anymore, the fox leaves. But if the animal loved the other animal as a best friend, then that animal would have never left. They could've been best friends and loved each other so much that they wouldn't stand to go without them. That would be much better. To be loved or to love someone is better than to be felt bad for.

    Imagine there was a stray dog out in your front porch, lonley and famished. Someone would most likely take pity of the animal and take care of it a little. You give it food and clean it up, and eventually call the vet for help. Some people only took pity of the dog and gave it to the vet without hesitation, without looking back. That person would have been more than happy to finally get rid of the dog, but of that person DID hesitate-- even a little-- it means they had a touch of love in them that was dedicated towards that dog. It would be nice if that person adopted the dog for love rather than pity.