A Brief Essay On Love And The Definition Of Love

What would motivate a man to stand between his wife and the barrel of a gun or keep a young woman beside the hospital bed of her comatose fiancé? Love, is a word of endless meaning, a subject of complex debate, and an idea of perfect imperfection; a story without an ending. The Holy Bible’s 1 Corinthians 13:13 hastened to say, “now abides faith, hope, [and] love, these three; but the greatest of these is love” (KJV) I believe love to not only be an idea, but a singular entity of self-sacrificial and unconditional love. Although love is a rare commodity to some, it is also the most overused and misunderstood yet rarely meant and universally accepted terms in any given language on the earth. The term love is defined by Webster’s Dictionary in

Love is faith and believing, putting in the work and hoping for the best, taking a risk. It has been around since the creation of life (some may say even before). Bonds that have formed between offspring and parent are the first encounters of love that many fortunate children have. That is why many developmental psychologists stress the fact that personality and ideals of an individual are most commonly correlated with the influences early in that individual’s life. Thoughts on and expectations of love are constructed by the society and role models that we have had in each of our own individual lives, and as experience has it, there are also lessons to be learned. Consequently, love has never changed, other than the way that individuals view it. Love has been spread throughout literature and history, the acclaimed playwright William Shakespeare proclaims love to be infinite in this passage from the literary embodiment of love Romeo and Juliet, “My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.” Some may find themselves asking; is love a feeling, an idea, a person, a socio-economic trend, or is it even a product of a religious teaching? Ultimately love is solely reliant on what one person makes of it, and in whom one may place their