What Is Love? Part 1

This question was asked on a christian message board I belong to. It intrigued me, and in the spirit of Valentines Day, I decided to elaborate on it.

Love varies in it's intensity, it's form, and in how it's shown. It varies from culture to culture even. Honestly, we should become more like the greeks, and adopt a few more words to define different forms of love.

1. Romantic love- the westernized version of love between a man and a woman. Personally, I'm not so into this form of love. I think in many cases this title is given to something that is nothing more than either an infacuation or just plain lust.

2. Practical love- As in, a complete devotion to others. This is true love. It covers most relationships: friendships, siblings, parents, man-woman relationships. It covers everything. This is a good form of love. Something I value above romantic love.

3. God love- another serious form of love. This even transcends practical love. It's just complete and utterly undeserved, unconditional love, that is just beyond human comprehension.

So, I plan to celebrate the higher two forms of love this Valentines day, especially since I'm definately not going to be on the recieving end of any romantic love.