WHAT IS LOVE... series 2

The philosopher: 'Love is a passionate commitment'

To Julian Baggini
The answer remains elusive in part because love is not one thing. Love for parents, partners, children, country, neighbour, God and so on all have different qualities. Each has its variants – blind, one-sided, tragic, steadfast, fickle, reciprocated, misguided, unconditional. At its best, however, all love is a kind a passionate commitment that we nurture and develop, even though it usually arrives in our lives unbidden. That's why it is more than just a powerful feeling. Without the commitment, it is mere infatuation. Without the passion, it is mere dedication. Without nurturing, even the best can wither and die.
Well, Love as it is does not change but it can be maneuvered, rehearsed n staged. True love does not deceives and it is magnanimous in the sense that it can swallow up faults and mistakes. Love is maneuvered when it becomes lust, when it becomes reciprocal, it is staged when it turns to the luxury of 'do me I do you', love respect the true nature of creation, it values imperfection and does not take revenge but understand, if a guy breaks away from a lady who remains an infidel to him, he could be justified on the platform of his endurance level, we needed to check his level of endurance and patience as it is said patient is bitter but its fruit sweet, has the situation repeated it self or he breaks up at the first scene? The fact remains that true love is JEALOUS but it can't easily throw off, it can't easily decide to loose or lust as the case may be, it usually develops a rapid change of heart and forgiveness because the one you love will seems irreplaceable to you unless he's totally ready to go.
So to know a true love, you must consider these things
1. Endurance level
2. Forgiveness Ability
3. Patient level
4. JEALOUSY

The romantic novelist: 'Love drives all great stories'

 Jojo Moyes
What love is depends on where you are in relation to it. Secure in it, it can feel as mundane and necessary as air – you exist within it, almost unnoticing. Deprived of it, it can feel like an obsession; all consuming, a physical pain. Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country. It is the point before consummation of it that fascinates: what separates you from love, the obstacles that stand in its way. It is usually at those points that love is everything.

The nun: 'Love is free yet binds us'

 Catherine Wybourne
Love is more easily experienced than defined. As a theological virtue, by which we love God above all things and our neighbours as ourselves for his sake, it seems remote until we encounter it enfleshed, so to say, in the life of another – in acts of kindness, generosity and self-sacrifice. Love's the one thing that can never hurt anyone, although it may cost dearly. The paradox of love is that it is supremely free yet attaches us with bonds stronger than death. It cannot be bought or sold; there is nothing it cannot face; love is life's greatest blessing.

Which are you going with???..my view my take h