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There’s this "formal" questions we need to answer in a private forum on where I work. We needed to fill up some questions (which are really needed) then, suddenly at the end of those "formal" questions, our boss asked:

Answer to the eternal question, what is love?

I messaged her (the boss) in YM and told her "Is that question really necessary? It’s a laugh trip!" Of course, she said no but for the fun of it, all 4 of us who answered the questionnaire answered that question too. LOL. To tell you guys honestly, that event happened January 2006. So why am I writing about this now? It’s because I realized, I have so many articles, paperworks, tempapers that talked about love and until now, IT HAS NOT BEEN POSTED IN MY BLOGS!

We all have this kind of LOVE in our minds; love is for couples, feeling romantic, looking for someone who’ll give us that "spark" OR that we call "magical feeling" OR looking for relationships. Well, that’s for the majority. The church may define love as something which is given by God to all mankind. Our parents may see love for their children as–to care, to nurture, give their children what they want, what they need, be with their children, play with them and many more. The thing is, with the SO-many-definitions of love, what is the real meaning of love for us?

We’ve debated this once in one of my Philosophy class and I think with love so vague and so meaningful, there will be no one definition or ultimate fact about it. I came to think that it’s not really for describing or defining since it’s meaning will depend on the individual. Depends on how the individual sees life and his experiences in life. Ever wonder why people won’t have the same definition of love? Why some people hated love? Why some people don’t believe in love?

In search for the answer to my questions in the previous paragraph, Google.com gave me this definitions of love:

• a strong positive emotion of regard and affection; "his love for his work"; "children need a lot of love" 
• any object of warm affection or devotion; "the theater was her first love"; "he has a passion for cock fighting"; 
• have a great affection or liking for; "I love French food"; "She loves her boss and works hard for him" 
• beloved: a beloved person; used as terms of endearment 
• a
  deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction; "their love left them
  indifferent to their surroundings"; "she was his first love"
• get pleasure from; "I love cooking" 
• a score of zero in tennis or squash; "it was 40 love" 
• be enamored or in love with; "She loves her husband deeply" 
• roll
  in the hay: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with
  everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with
  this man?"
• sexual love: sexual activities (often including
  sexual intercourse) between two people; "his lovemaking disgusted her";
  "he hadn’t had any love in months"; "he has a very complicated love
  life"
• Love has many meanings in English, from something that
  gives a little pleasure ("I loved that movie") to something one would
  die for (patriotism, pairbonding). It can describe an intense feeling
  of affection, an emotion or an emotional state. In ordinary use, it
  usually refers to interpersonal love. Probably due to its large
  psychological relevance, love is one of the most common themes in art.
  The majority of modern movies have a love story and most pop music is
  about love.
  

Did you find a similar definition of love from your point of view to there? If you’ll analyze those given meanings of love, they don’t have a connection from one over the other. Well, except for those that implies almost the same thing. But do you find your own definition of love something similar to those given above?

So many questions, so many answers and until now love is a mystery we can’t solve. If you’ll ask me, I’ll define love as a mystery that revolves in these values–honesty, trust and faith.
We give our trust to the people who love us and who we love (in consideration of all the definition of love and kinds of love given above). We became faithful in our own simple way of showing it to those we share love. e.g: parents, friends, special someone. Last but not the least, honesty. We may say that we’re not really sometimes honest to some people we do love (like parents or friends.. lolz) but if you’ll re-think of it, love developed from sharing our experiences, conversations of heart and just by being honest to ourselves to these people we love.

I’ll ask the question again:
Do you find your own definition of love something similar to those given above? Maybe yes? Maybe No? But still, love has it’s own definition amongst us. I have my own definition of it (which is the paragraph before this). and so as you… right?

As I end my long talk and your long read, I want to share you guys my answer to that eternal question back then:

What is the answer to the eternal question: What is love?

Love is something that you give it away… give it away… give it
away… love is something that you give it away.. and it comes right
back at you…

hahahahahahaha

Ok.. I know.. I was silly back then…

Good day!

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