What is Love

     I despair of this question, there are no answers. Love has a different meaning to everyone because everyone is different.
     I know what love is not, love is not ashamed of loving another, love does not care what others think. If there is shame in your heart about the person you claim to love, you do not love them.
     Love is not careless, not caring about the other person's feelings and the things done that hurt another.
     Love does not run and hide away when the going gets tough. I saw this first hand in my own family when my Father became incapacitated after a stroke rendered him paralyzed. My Mother faithfully cared for him in spite of the difficulties, she did not run away.
     I have no understanding of love, only what I feel in my own heart and what I long for. I have rarely seen love in just about every relationship I have ever witnessed, save a rare few who seem to truly love their partner. These things I have witnessed, the joy that overflows the heart of the one who loves, they cannot contain their love and it overflows on every person around them and blesses the ones who are witnesses to that love. Love builds up the other person, it never tears them down. Love truly cares for the other person, love does not have a careless attitude of, if you don't like it that's too bad, that is not love.
     I believe true love, real love has blinders on, there is no temptation to cheat because there is no one who holds the attraction that your loved one holds for you. Faithfulness is not just some moral value, but rather a matter of love that is hidden deep within one's soul.
     On every negative side of what love is not becomes the positive side of what love is. I know this for sure, true love is rare, it's like a jewel, very few are lucky enough to find real love in this life.