The Love Below the Line

Love represents a range of emotions and experiences related to the senses of affection and sexual attraction. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure to intense interpersonal attraction. This diversity of meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states.

As an abstract concept love usually refers to a strong, ineffable feeling towards another person. Even this limited conception of love, however, encompasses a wealth of different feelings, from the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love to the nonsexual. Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts.

For me there are 4 different kinds of love. Brotherly Love, Motherly Love, Agape Love, and Romantic Love. Brotherly love, as simple as it sounds, is self explanatory. It's the love you have for your best friends, your family, sometimes strangers, and et cetera et cetera. Motherly Love, is just that. The bond a mother (or a motherly figure) has for their children, biological or not. That special kind of care and worry that no other human can give. Agape Love is more technical. This love represents divine, unconditional, self-sacrificing, active, volitional, and thoughtful love. For the sake of argument, God's love. Very few humans can boast about sharing this kind of love. This is also the true meaning of "True Love". And lastly you have Romantic Love. Just like the others, it is what it says. Its that love at first site feeling, that first "I Love You" from your lover, that Cupid's arrow feeling on Valentine's day, sometimes even Puppy Love.

So which ever sense of Love you share, just know that it's the best type of feeling to have. When someone says that they love you, don't think they are attaching too fast. Just ask them why they feel like that. Love is the best. Share the love and be free. I love you.