Yes, I do feel sometimes that I love the people I've around me. For instant I'm glad for having a friend of mine, let's call her 'S', which has been a close friend of mine for almost 6yrs now, we "broke up" as friends when we were younger. We were close as I would count her as my "sister", even people around us though we were sister because we were so 'alike' eachother. After the disput that broke our friendship, she has finnally forgiven me and we can go on as friends. I'm thankful and grateful of having her in my life. And I do belive she's one of the persons 'I love'. Therefore, to say, that I love her 'like I love my family, my brother and my relatives'. A different kind of 'love', compared to what I feel towards my companion, partner and friend ('soulmate'). She would be the 'female' soulmate though.
