This means only one of these things: either people
never knew what it meant, they forgot what love
means, or love itself has evolved and taken
another meaning.

The first and second answers seem to be the
logical explanations here.

Regardless of time, age and modernisation, the
essence of love remains very much the same; the
core of it, unchanged.

In a general sense, love is that feeling of deep
affection towards someone, a great interest in
someone and their well being.

So, love is that feeling that warms your heart at the
mention of someone's name, at the sound of their
voice. Love is that thing that makes you look at
someone at their worst moments, their lowest
lows and still want no one but them.

Love in the real sense is not fleeting, not
temporary, and not subjected to visible, tangible
things.

Society seems to be gravitating towards a
redefinition, a wrong perception based on
selfishness, distrust, deception, cynicism and
disloyalty but these don't reflect what true love
means.

Love is the complete opposite of those things. Not
only does true love move you to be selfless, it
enables you compromise, teaches you to trust, to
be loyal and faithful to those you hold dear, it
makes you see the best in people, makes you
believe the best of them.
Love could change you, make you better, but it
does not change - not with time, not with
circumstances, not in the face of sickness or
diesease.
The standard of genuine love seems high and
unattainable but that's only to those who have not
felt it in its wholeness. Those who seemingly saw
its shadow and thought they've seen it all.
When you truly love someone, you become blind to
their flaws and defects, and you'll have nothing but
their best interests at heart.

A lot can be said about love and the things that
characterise it, but what stands truest thing about
it is this; love remains one of life's true beauties,
unstained and unsoiled by the activities of men
[and women] and still as strong as ever in its
ability to beautify lives.

Love lacks a proper, all-encapsulating definition,
and that's just fine because its appropriate
definition isn't necessarily needed for it to be
understood.


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