What Is Love?

Written by Sivuyile Tshalana.

In this day, and age we all need love and we must love back at the same time. In order to love, we must firstly understand the term love. The word love is overused these days by certain people to meet their needs and wants without even thinking about the other person involved. There are different aspects that make up love.

Love is unconditional, whereby you love a person based on your true feelings and not loving the person based on their materialistic things.

Love is inner beauty. It is a person's personality and looking at the person's heart.

Love is also spending time with your loved ones. Taking time off your busy life and to be with your loved ones.

Love is having no expectations. You give love because it benefits you not financially but emotionally.

Love is beautiful, it makes you feel happy, it makes you smile and gives you a different perspective of life.

Love is unique. It is something that we all have but very few of us do not fear showing it.

Love is not just an emotion, it is a way of life.

Love is equal. People must have the same level of understanding and feelings. In order for love to be not alone but pure.

Love has no boundaries, no privacy, sees no colour, does not discriminate and has no specific age limit. In other words love seeks no perfection.

Love is giving, caring, patience, sacrifices, trustworthy and transparent.

Bible Definition: Love suffers long and is kind, love does not envy, love does not parade itself, is not puffed up. Love does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil. Love never fails. (Take from the New Testament Psalms and Proverbs. 1 Corinthians 13:4, 5 and 8. Page 320).

Love is more than just a romantic thing.

Love can be explained in many ways, but only shown in one way by actually loving.