Love

Wikipedia describes love as a range of emotional and mental states from sublime virtues and interpersonal affection to the simplest pleasure. It also describes it as emotional attachment and affection for a person. But i don't think that is all it is.

Love can't be just affection for someone or a slight feeling of pleasure. It is something that every art piece in this world is based on so surely, love can't be something this simple. Emotional dependency and attachment is a nice way of putting it but still I feel they haven't captured the gist of it. 

We hear stories about love, fairy tales, movies, listen to love songs and yet its quite astonishing that none of us seems to really know what it actually means. 

I think I might have figured it out. Love is caring for someone so much so that when they feel the slightest discomfort or a hint of sadness In their life, we start feeling guilty for being happy. If someone you loved was sad or melancholic for whatever reason, you would beat yourself(not literally) over laughing at a joke. It's just that guilt that prevails in the mind that "How can I be laughing when they are in pain? "

I say that because it was an observation, one that I am really proud of. For example, if my mother was feeling sad for whatever reason, I would not breathe easy for a second. I would make myself be sad just because she was. 

Human beings are designed to be social so caring for someone is an innate thing we do. We can't help it and its probably the reason we've survived this long. This aforementioned "description" of a concept is, I think, a beautiful thing. Empathy is at the helm of everything. And personally, on a completely unrelated note, it could be the cure for racism. 

I think we can all do better. 

Thank you.