If you think there is a difference between love and like, then you are 100% right!!!!

We often get confused between like and love. Well this is really common to see among people these days as they sometimes fail to understand the difference between like and love. There has been a comparison which is given by lord buddha which has been stated with the example of a sunflower. It states that if you like the flower, you are very likely to just pluck it, but if you are in love with the flower you won't pluck it, you will rather water the flower and want it to grow more. This difference has been beautifully depicted by lord buddha. 

Liking may start and just end after sometime and this is also known as infatuation. A lot of people do confuse infatuation with love and end up in a helpless state. Love on the other hand involves intricate feelings for the other one and it is like being on a warfield and facing a difficult battle as it consists of so many ups and downs. Love is like a never ending ocean and it is very huge whereas liking can be considered as a lake which definitely has an end to it. 

As I said liking may end after sometime which means that it is a feeling which can be controlled but that is not the case with love as love is unconditional yet uncontrollable. Love is a beautiful feeling but it can force a person to be violent and obsessed in a negative way which may lead to toxicity in the relation. 

Even if you get detached from the person you like, it would not cause so much of sadness as liking fades away with time due to changes but something like this does not happen in case of love as in love a person sees no bounds nothing but just his/her lover . Even thinking about a separation or detachment tears people up when they are in love. It causes intense grief and depression just like losing someone so close. It is not a good feeling at all. 

So, like and love both are indeed, beautiful feelings and have distinctive features which do create a border between the two.