Wikipedia:
“Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection and attachment. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure to intense interpersonal attraction. The word love is both a verb and a noun. This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states.
As an abstract concept, love usually refers to a deep, ineffable feeling of tenderly caring for another person. Even this limited conception of love, however, encompasses a wealth of different feelings, from the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love to the nonsexual emotional closeness of familial and platonic love to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love. Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts.”
Being an engineer, I shall define Love as a vector: having a magnitude and a direction. It has been commonly observed that love is directed towards family, friends, God, nature, one’s ‘beloved’, work, money, possessions, power…the list is endless. Some of the common determinants of magnitude are type of relationship (blood, friendship etc.), degree of devotion (towards God, work etc.), extent of happiness and satisfaction felt. Its intensity increases when one promises to give everything: heart, mind, and soul – while keeping one’s expectations real. It is one of the world’s biggest motivators, giving you the vision to see beyond horizons, the strength to overcome all obstacles, and the will to just keep going! It is a good teacher, for it teaches by experience and not merely by words or actions. It makes you smile during sunshine, and it keeps you company during rain. It guides you through life…
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