Love.

What does it mean to love someone? It was the first question that came to my mind when this was the topic for my article. I’ve been told so many times the definition of love but somehow, I still don’t understand what that term means.

So according to the dictionary, love is a very strong affection or a passionate attraction and desire. Although I would very much believe that the second means lust.

This is my stand of love; a decision. Why? Take a married person for example. I’m sure there is a strong sense of affection in the beginning when they were newlyweds. But for most couples, affection dies down as the marriage goes on for maybe ten or twenty years (not including divorced couples). How do they keep the marriage going when their strong sense of affection simply becomes affection? They decided to stick by each other through thick and thin. A vow that they made when the first got married. They decide to be there for each other even though they irritate each other into hell. When you see an old couple at sixty holding hands, which totally warms my heart to see them like this, you know that they decided to stay by each other until the grave with the affection they started out with forty years ago when they first got married.

But what is love without trust?

There are many kinds of love. For lovers, friends, family, God and many others. And love like this, all depend on a simple theory and foundation called trust. You know what you really love that person when you trust that person with your life. That’s what I like to believe. I would like to believe that when I get married and fifty years down the road, I’ll kiss my other half on the lips even if we’re wrinkled to the bone or holding hands in the bus so that we won’t lose each other. That would be the sweetest kind of love.

So tell me, what is love to you?