What is love?

What is love?

Merriam-Webster defines LOVE as:
I. (a):strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties [such as the love for a child] (b) attraction based on sexual desire.
II. warm attachment, enthusiasm, or devotion.

Wow ... I always knew I was confused but after reading the 'official' definition I am more lost than ever. I always thought love was bigger than all of that. Perhaps that is my problem with love. Perhaps I give it too much weight, too much power. Perhaps I expect more from it, of it, than it truly is.

I understand the love for a child. It is indescribable. I'd move Heaven and Earth for my children. I'd give my own life for them.

But what of the love between two who have chosen each other as a partner? Why is it so hard to find and even harder to hold. I believe the love between two people should shake the earth and rock the heavens. I think that love should be unconditional. If you love someone, really and truly love them would you not do anything for them? Would you not move Heaven and Earth just to see them smile? Would you not make sacrifices for them?

Today, it seems we settle for instant gratification. We revel in the bliss of physical love, and may even scrape the surface of real love; but when life, real life steps in we cave. We walk away in search of the next easy, cheap fix.

I want more than that. I am not anyone's maybe or someone's just for right now. I refuse to settle for comfortable 'love'. I've done that for far to many years of my life already.

I hope the love I believe in is real. I hope there is the kind of love that conquers all and survives the most difficult times. I have to hope ... after all what else is there?