What is Love?

"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth." What is love? Really? Everybody says that hate is a strong word, but truly so is love too but everybody just throws it around like it is nothing! Love can be described in many different ways. You may say that it is something and I may think that it is something totally different. But however you describe love everybody knows what you are talking about.

But I feel that love is tossed around too much! What I mean to say is that when you see your friends walking around with their boyfriends and you hear them say I love you as they are parting each other then you realize that they don't really mean that because if they really loved each other then they would be forever together. But how many times does that happen.

I know that when I do go out with someone I probally will hold off on the "I love you"s. I find that I agree with Kahlil Gibran and his statement about love: It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. I also agree with Helen Keller: The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. And lastly Mark Twain: Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

I think that we should all rethink how often we throw around the word love!

~Morgan~