What better way to recognize the upcoming notorious “Valentine’s Day” than to figure out what love really means. I have gone on a quest to fine the true definition of love……

Urban Dictionary

Love: Nature’s way of tricking people into reproducing

Merriam Webster

Love: noun : a feeling of strong or constant affection for a person: attraction that includes sexual desire : the strong affection felt by people who have a romantic relationship: a person you love in a romantic way

Wikipedia

Love is a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that ranges from interpersonal affection (“I love my mother”) to pleasure (“I loved that meal”). It can refer to an emotion of a strong attraction and personal attachment. It can also be a virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection—”the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another”. It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one’s self or animals.

Ancient Greeks identified four forms of love: kinship or familiarity (in Greek, storge), friendship (philia), sexual and/or romantic desire (eros), and self-emptying or divine love (agape). Modern authors have distinguished further varieties of romantic love. Non-Western traditions have also distinguished variants or symbioses of these states. This diversity of uses and meanings combined with the complexity of the feelings involved makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, compared to other emotional states.

Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts.

Love may be understood as a function to keep human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species.

Unknown:

Love Is My Wife.

John Lennon:

Love is having to say you’re sorry every five minutes.

Emily Dickinson:

That Love is all there is…Is all we know of Love

Alas, what does love truly mean? It seems it will forever be evolving…