Essence of LOVE

Love, though a small four letter word, once upon a time had my attention. Not 'cause I really

understood it, actually this was a time when I didn't. Maybe you were once like me, having wondered, what exactly makes love so grand that every individual big and small desperately craves it again and again, even me? Why is that so? Something I used to ask myself.

Of movies that I've watched and songs that I've heard, love takes a bashing 'cause they say their hearts hurt because of it: "Maybe it's better not to have love at all!" My opinion, one of the saddest lines ever spoken.

But is that what love truly is?!

Just something that comes then goes, and leaves nothing but hurt? Alas! I found it, my search for an answer comes to an end.

An expression of love may be receiving gifts, and the hugs and kisses and the "I love you"

statements too. But that's not the whole of it, the essence of what love is, truly. Love is patient and kind, rejoices with the truth. Also it encompasses self-sacrifice, loyalty and trust in their entirety. Now, you see it like I do... love is action! Honest action! That's the truth, I was dying, as the saying goes, to tell you.