What is love?

This is probably one of the most asked questions that I've come across. I guess, many of us don't know what love REALLY is. We think we love a person when we are unable to live without him or her, for how many times have we heard people saying that they can't live without him or her? I read in a book before that if you do feel that way, that's actually parasitism, not love. Two people only truly love each other when they are quite capable of living WITHOUT each other, but CHOSE to live with each other.

How then is it considered: "loving a person"? Honestly, I don't really know too. I have always associated love with pain and instability. Yes, no doubt love makes one feels good too, but I guess, the biggest "catch" about love, is its ability to make let those involved feel uncertain. Love can make you feel like crying and laughing at the same time, love can make you decide on something this moment, only to change your mind in the next. A girl screams at her boyfriend when they fight. Why does she scream at him if she loves him? A husband hits his wife. Why does he hit her if he loves her? Some people say that to scold is to care about (well, maybe), and to hit is to love. Bullshit. Love and anger CANNOT co-exist for anger destroys love. So what is it like to love a person? Have you ever find yourself so in love with a person that you become so affected with whatever he or she does or say? Have you ever loved him or her so much that your heart aches to see he or she suffer, so much so that you wished you could take their places? Have you ever loved a person so much that even though he or she is HURTING you, and you feel like screaming out at him or her, or even to hit them, BUT you DON'T because you know that you will hurt him or her by doing that, and you don't want to? Have you ever find yourself so angry and upset with him or her, but the moment he or she apologises or just calls, you find that your anger is out of the window that very instant? To me, I think that is what love is about, and thinking back, that was alot of agony too. Well, maybe when you are in it, you don't find it an agony...

Love is quite a mystery, it is its own master, and belongs to no one. People say that love is like a fish, you can catch it, and you can also lose it in your hands. Sometimes, we take our loved ones for granted just because we know they love us and will always be there. Treat your loved ones, (your family, friends etc) better, for you'll never know what is going to happen next. Love is a gift, it is NOT a right, and it can be taken away from you if you don't treasure it. So what then is love?

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. - 1 Cor 13:4-8a