What Is Love?


What is love?
A question often asked by almost all of us, and more often than not, asked by the same individual at different stages of his/her life.

Is love the connection we feel when we look at someone for the first time and have butterflies in our stomach and palpitations in our heart, or is love the feeling of calmness and peace when we look into the person's eyes for the first time?
Is love the connections we make with a person, which lead us to have expectations from them or is love the bonds we make with people who are no longer living wherein there is no scope for any expectations?
Is love the feeling of closeness with someone who is far away, or is it the feeling of feeling distanced from someone who is in front of us?
Is love the laughter and smiles we wear when we think about a person, or is love the tears that roll down our cheeks when we think about another heart?
Is love seeing a smile on your face when you look into the mirror, thinking of someone else, or is it trying to put a smile on another's face when they are down?
Is love the anxiety and fear we feel when we think about someone or is it the feeling of strength and courage we recieve thinking about them?

So what is it?
It's so simple to understand and yet so complex to determine.
Love is all of these things and, at the same time, none of these things!
Love is, and always has been a subjective emotion and never an objective one.
The day, the world defines love, will be the day we can say for sure that love no longer exists.

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