by James Glaser
February 14, 2005

I know it is Valentines Day, but I thought it might be nicer to write about love, rather than a day set aside to sell flowers, candy, jewelry, and cards. If you are really in love, then you don't need Valentines Day, because every day should be like that.

It seems so easy to write about why you love someone or what their love means to you, but it is hard to describe what love is. I would have to say that love is having a real concern for another person. A concern that is wound up with an intense affection that causes you to be enamored with them.

Oh there are lots of kinds of love. The love God has for us, the love a parent has for a child, and the love the child has for the parent. All of these loves are without reservation. A son can be on death row for an evil murder and his mother will still love him We can all do just awful things and when we ask God for forgiveness he gives us that, plus all of his love.

I guess on this day, I am writing about the love between a man and a woman. This love is given freely and without restriction. Love is treating that other person with respect and honesty. It is a positive emotion that creates a deep need and desire to devote your life to make the person you love happy and by making them happy, you make yourself happy.

Two people in love smile a lot.

People in love enjoy giving to each other.

Love grows. Especially love that is unconditional, absolute.

Love is trust.

Being in love with someone is good and it is fun and it makes you feel happy way down deep inside and when you are out in public people can see that you have this inner glow, this excitement about your life. When the person you are in love with, returns that love to you, the intensity of all those emotions you feel about them multiplies.

There is no limit to the amount of love you can hold or feel for another. If the two of you work on your love together it will grow every day and that is called, a Love Affair.

Love affairs are an ongoing daily, maybe hourly expression of the love that two people hold for each other. If it is "true love" nothing can stop the affair, not a physical separation, not a sickness or injury, not even the two of you getting married. Real love affairs continue on until death and maybe even after.

Love makes us healthier and the lack of love can make us sick, so love must be a need that all of us have. You can constantly give your love to someone and always have more to give. The love given to you becomes addicting and that is why we have affairs, relationships, and marriages. We realize that we want the love we are getting to continue and we also want to give our love in return.

It all seems so easy and it really is, when Love is on a two way street. As they say, love makes the world go round. I don't know if it does, but it sure makes life worthwhile.