what is love

[imnothere]

it seems to me that the word "love" has amassed quite a few meanings and covers a broad range of positive emotion. the sentiment "i love you" stands next to "i love winning" stands next to "i love (food you enjoy here)" now it seems to me that we have devalued the word love by over use. it would appear to me that at one time it meant something to tell someone "i love you" just as it meant something at one time to claim "friendship" with someone. i think that some of our words have been devalued over time be misuse or overuse.

do you agree?

what is "love" to you?
is it the sentiment of a fondness for said object?
is it a word that can get you what you want if strategically used?
is it something else all together?

do you find yourself, as so many others, using it to varying degrees without the ability to clarify the difference?
or do you truly love your dog in equal measure to your mother and pizza?

[gottibabe1]

I'm not sure love has been devalue'd perse, I think its just gathered a lot of different meanings over the years. Or different ways of using it for different situations. There are many different kinds of love. But the love I think your talking about as in true love, is something thats unexplainable, its something that you just know is, by the feeling you have. This is usually only found when one person loves another, but I'm sure there are people who get this feeling with their pet or even an object in rare cases. The type of love people refer to when they say "I love this Pizza" or gets used overly, I don't think is true love, but can be considered love, because you have a deeper fondness to it rather than just liking. This goes with loving friends as well, you may not have that mushy feeling in your heart like for your husband as you do for your friend, but its a deeper connection than just liking them. In a way I guess it may appear as the word love has been devalue'd, but I think its just different peoples interpretations of what love is.

[Ikeni]

"Love" is a situation where your brain has been triggered off to release certain chemicals which are responsible for the feelings given by "love". I agree the word has been devalued and that in many of the times it is used it would be better off being replaced by "like", though the two words seem to have swapped definitions now. For example, girls I know may "love" their mates, but then if they "like" a guy then the connotation of that is love.

[FoxyBunny]

I don't think there is really any confusion as to what "love" is. I do think, though, that in a quirk of linguistics we've expanded the word to emcompass multiple things based upon context. That's really not unique; we do that with lots of words especially in the English language.

[japanpimp]

There are different forms and types of love. Romantic love, principle love, etc... Love is not just an emotion. But in a word, I would say that love is selflessness.

[KwokYuen]

I think made a thread like this once. Here my answer, love is different in way. It bond two different peoplee together. It power that can be break ,but not all the way. It drives us to do things we normally would not.

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'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope... Love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticule, and together, achieving a singular purpose against statistically long odds."
―HK-47