What is LOVE ?

For centuries man has tried to define love, to capture its essence, to reach through words and thoughts to its very core. But by and large, love has escaped the clutches of words, cages of definitions. It floats free as an abstraction, as music, as a lyrical lore and continues to claim its victims, innocent young hearts, all through centuries.
None have been able to click on "escape" or "delete" buttons when face to face with power of love.
The dictionary defines love as deep affection and fondness. In a generalized sense, love is a strong attraction or a magnetic pull coupled with intense caring for a thing or an activity or a person.
However, we are talking here about love between man and woman or two persons. It most certainly has a quality that separates it from love one feels for one's child, parents, or love for books, music, sports, nature, or even towards one's own self.
Love between man and woman is the most profound experience, an out of the ordinary occurrence and is often coupled with desire for physical intimacy with the other for its ultimate expression. It has even been said to be a magical or metaphysical experience.
It is rather strange to think when love happens you say 'I have fallen in love". It can not be just a coincidence that this phrase, often used without introspection or speculation, can really give us a clue to how it feels to be in love.
There must be a sense of falling from a great height, like a feather, light weight, there is a feeling of lightness, of happiness, of surrender. In this fall resides a lover's rise. A person who has not fallen in love has never risen in life, as wise men say.
In love you surrender. In love you give. In love you care. In love you accept. In love you cease to matter alone. The other becomes part of you. The object of your love envelopes your soul, your thoughts, your being.
The Beatles stars John Lennon and Paul McCartney created the song "All you need is love". Mahatma Gandhi has said "Love never claims, it only gives". Poet Janos Arany says "In dream and in love, there are no impossibilities".
It seems nature has conspired for us to fall in love. Let's love and let's live.

The word love has different meanings

The word love has many different meanings in English, from something that gives a little pleasure ("I loved that meal") to something one would die for (ideals, family). It can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional state. In ordinary use, it usually refers to interpersonal love. Probably due to its psychological relevance, love is one of the most common themes in art and music.

Just as there are many types of lovers, there are many kinds of love. Though love is inherent in all human cultures, cultural differences make any universal definition difficult to establish. One definition attempting to be universally applicable is Thomas Jay Oord's: to love is to act intentionally, in sympathetic response to others, to promote overall well-being. This definition applies to the positive connotations of love.

Expressions of love may include the love for a "soul" or mind, the love of laws and organizations, love for a body, love for nature, love of food, love of money, love for learning, love of power, love of fame, love for the respect of others, etcetera. Different people place varying degrees of importance on the kinds of love they receive. According to many philosophers, the only goal of life is to be happy. And there is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved. Love is essentially an abstract concept, much easier to experience than to explain.