It is difficult to define love. No words will do it justice. It isn't something you explain but rather experience. Although many have tried, one can never truly understand the meaning or intensity of it unless they have gone through it themselves. Even then its definition keeps altering depending on the time and age we are.
Most often as a teenager, we think love is sharing looks, giving gifts and long conversations on the telephone. It doesn't matter if the other person has nothing in common or even any respect for us. Love at this point is all about accepting the hurt and humiliation in trying to be exactly like the other person wants us to be. Here, love is only thinking about ourself and demanding attention rather than giving in return.
Our early twenties shape our character and we begin to see the real picture or at least understand that love isn't at all like the movies or the plot of Mills& Boons. We realise that love is definitely difficult to describe, as it is so many things at once. Love is varied but the one thing it is not and can't ever be, is unsure. That same surety brings a sense of happiness and togetherness. No matter how, whom and when we love, it always takes us somewhere and changes who we are for ever; for good or bad.
So, in this issue, we celebrate the essence of love and everything that has anything to do with it. Not just because it's February but because we all believe in the spirit of the emotion.
Keep loving.
C2
