Despite what our culture would like us to believe, there exists a love far more powerful than simple romantic love. In some ways, romantic love is the easiest love, but not the deepest, nor the truest.
So here it is, a concise definition of TRUE love, from a much older and wiser man than I:
“Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.”– John 15:13“This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.”
– 1 John 3:16
This is the love that moves the stars.
Absolute love is indivisible. One cannot love God and not his fellow man or, loving one section of humanity and hating the other. This will be like kiling the chicken and cooking half of it and leaving the other half for laying. Then there is relative love where one may love an individual to the extent of defending him/her even at the cost of one’s own life, or one may love an occupation or a vocation or even a pet. All these loves give one glimpes of occasions where time stands still and takes us temporarily out of this body where hunger and thirst and even pain disappear. These kinds of love are rare in these days where values have degraded and pleasure and indulgence are the order of the day.
Without love, life has no meaning.
No one truly lives, who does not truly love.