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This week: What Is Love? Edited by: NaNoKit  
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We talk a lot about love. We love this person, that pet, this food, that thing... But what is love, really? And what is it to love?
This week's Spiritual Newsletter is all about - you guess it - love. 
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What is love? Some would call it a chemical reaction. Others would call it the most special feeling anyone could possibly experience. Perhaps it is both. Whatever is the case, I do know that love is important.
There was a time when I didn’t believe in love and especially not in romantic love. The kind of love I envisioned was one that’s pure, and true, and unconditional. Life’s not like that, though. And love often isn’t like that. There are always complications, and love cannot fix everything.
Take, for example, the love between parents and children. One would think that that would be the strongest kind of love possible, and in some cases that might well be true. Yet it doesn’t prevent parents from messing up, and in some cases severely messing up. It doesn’t mean that some parent/child relationships don’t grow toxic, causing them to break down completely.
People can fall in love, get married, and still end up divorcing, for many reasons. People can fall in and out of love. You can think that you have finally found that one special person and then, no, he or she wasn’t what you had hoped for.
We say that we love this, and love that, but what does it all mean? Are we simply in love with the idea of being in love?
I personally feel that, yes, many people love to love, and love being in love, and love being loved. But that does not mean that love isn’t real. That it isn’t special, isn’t important, that it isn’t something that is necessary to us.
When I look at nature, I see love. Yes, nature can be cruel. Brutal even. But I look at every intricate detail, and how everything functions in a harmony that shapes the world around us.
And for all that love can be messy and imperfect, it also spurs people on to great deeds. And by great deeds I don’t just mean big, heroic deeds, but just making a small donation to a good cause, helping out others, keeping an eye out for one’s neighbour, dropping off a review here on Writing.Com, all these show a love for humanity, a love for helping out others, a love for doing nice things. And that kind of love makes all the difference.
Love helps us create a special bond with other species. It helps us care for our plants, our flowers and our trees. It helps us be passionate about our hobbies and our creative efforts. If we are very lucky, we can even love our jobs.
It helps us stick together when times get tough. It caused a completely stranger to dive into the water straight after my little niece had fallen in, because that lady knew what it is to love a child. It helps people resist war, oppression... if it weren’t for love, what would society be like?
That is something I do wonder about. Imagine a world without love. We already know what people are capable of, even with there being love. I picture more war, more cruelty, more destruction. I don’t think we’d be able to survive.
Love, then, is indeed necessary. Perhaps it isn’t always like it is in the movies. We don’t live in a fairytale. But that doesn’t mean that we don’t need it.
I will leave you with a favourite quote of mine:
1 Corinthians 13: And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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