We each perceive love in our own way. Your perception of love would be determined by your past experiences. If you were raised by particularly difficult parents, your perception would be totally different than that of someone raised in a family with two loving, caring and devoted parents.
As we all have a unique perspective on love, how would one define it? There is the love of a partner, yet the love for a child is different. There’s the kind of love which is felt for a sibling, and then quite another for our parents. An inanimate object such as a good book can bring about an entirely different expression of love, or what about a favorite hobby?
What I have found is that we each would arrive at our own definition of love if asked. But, when asked to describe how you feel love, unless the person you’re addressing has felt the same depth of emotion, they could only truly understand if they too had foreknowledge of the emotions involved in the act of loving.
Ask your friends and loved ones what their definition of love is. I bet you’ll get different answers from each person you meet. Take these definitions and internalize the depth of emotion elicited—good or bad. All emotions teach us compassion and unite us with one another.
