According to Wikipedia,
"Love is a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that ranges from interpersonal affection ("I love my mother") to pleasure ("I loved that meal"). It can refer to an emotion of a strong attraction and personal attachment. Love can also be a virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection—"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another". It may also be described as the compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one's self or animals.
The world has so changed now that so many things that were considered to be abnormal abominable are now in vogue, those that were in vogue are sloping down into extinction, so is love. Love used to be expressed more than it was said, in fact the expression of love can be related to the common saying "action speaks louder than words". These days, the depth of love has been made shallow by lust and luxury.
Gone are the days when once your hear love, you know you've found a home. Those days when every Fibre of your being dives into the mystery of love, and yearns to be loved. Love goes beyond a feeling of attraction towards the opposite sex, it permeates through every area of life and doesn't care about who is being loved.
Love breeds trust. Love thrives were there is trust, before our hearts were eroded with the virus of selfishness and it's vices. Everything that concerns our neighbour was also our concern. Love was sweet! Love is sweet! And it cannot just lose its savour, because it is divine, it can't lose its meaning because some people interpret it wrongly. God loves, so also Christ, that's why the ability to love was imparted to us as soon as we put on Christ in other to appreciate one another's existence and not restrict it to just one person or group, though there may be preference in love.
Love is all encompassing. It is so vast for the human heart to fully comprehend it, to get a clear picture of it, you need to seek the counsel of the one who first showed what it meant to love. Love for family, friends, neighbours, colleagues, country, the world, government, life, God, name them.
Gradually, things began to unveil and occur in our heart, and love got fed up of having to share the whole of our heart with other feelings that are anathema to it. It got choked up and had to give way. Sadly enough, we now have different definitions of love.
These days when we seem to be wise, love has become a game played with the brain, and feared by the heart. Love has been trampled upon by the prematurity of our minds. Once love is mentioned, one thing that comes into our mind is heartbreak. That's a very shallow way of thinking. We only think love is meant for dating and marriage.
The media has compounded the the problem with the kind of movies and songs that they air, as long as they get their money, they care less about the after effect. They've streamlined our reasoning of love to just sex and selfishness, that's why the world has lost her sanity, which it may never recover from. Love songs are no more for the being of a person, but for endowment and possessions. That's all we now see when we profess love.
I spoke earlier about someone that knew how to express love, his name is Jehovah. You can prayerfully study 1Corinthians 13:1-13, it's clearly spelt out there. Let me draw the curtain here by saying thus; The fact that the world doesn't portray love the right way is not enough reason to join the band wagon, go ahead and make that difference!
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