The Love Post

What is love?

Is it:

• a feeling?
• having a heart?
• an electrical impulse inside your head?
• making lunches for your children for 17 years?
• your child deciding to make you lunch after you made them lunch for 17 years?
• a man sacrificing his own life to save us all?
• something you say?
• something you do?
• showing someone you care?
• impossible?
• taking your own time to do something for someone other than yourself?
• being able to appreciate another's company?
• a look in your eyes?
• cooking dinner for your siblings without being asked to, and without complaining?
• donating to a charity?
• your favourite food?
• golden silence and a warm smile?
• driving two hours only to make a mistake and ruin it all?
• giving presents?
• winning the lottery?
• winning the life lottery?
• being able to trust in someone else unconditionally?
• the freedom of expression, of thoughts and ideas?
• looking incredibly beautiful?
• what they show you on TV and magazines?
• the perfect kiss?
• being there when you're needed the most?
• talking and letting others know how you feel?
• Turkish Delights?
• working broadband?
• something like friendship, only not?
• working together with others to achieve an ideal or a goal?
• an online game - the paradox of social interaction, six people at their gaming machines?
• attachment to a project?
• a place to return home to?
• the embrace that makes you melt and forget where you are?
• changing someone's desktop to coerce a smile?
• getting angry at a child because they didn't listen to you?
• worrying that they almost hurt themselves when that balancing beam toppled?
• doing your absolute best for someone?
• doing your absolute best for someone other than yourself?
• indescribable?
• Aladdin and Jasmine?
• something money can buy?
• the kinship between human beings and their animal companions?
• sex and intimate bodily contact?
• being together for 50 years?
• knowing someone else so well, you finish their sentences before they do?
• the creation and exploration of music?
• words, lyrics, poetry?
• what wars are really fought over?
• the emotion that will save us all?
• the emotion that will lead to our final hour?
• something a cruel man invented as a joke to puzzle millions?
• a connection so embarrassing you cannot tell your children?
• organized religion and its many tendrils?
• sunrise?
• sunset?
• a long walk on the beach?
• a long walk on the beach with someone else?
• romantic or platonic?
• everything that moves the world?
• those little birds in the cartoons that hover around the female characters?
• eye contact that doesn't feel weird?
• waking up hours before you have to just for someone else?
• being indoctrinated by the media to say and do creepy things before the time?
• roses?
• the connection between family members?
• letting something you treasure deeply go, for the sake of someone else?
• holding hands, and not just to cross the road?
  

I'm losing sleep over this. It has come to my attention that I don't know what love is. I'm not gonna rest until I find out.