The Power of Love

Romantic love is a very powerful drive; stronger than hunger. Many composer write songs about love or the author wrote the books about love. Nowadays we live because of love and live for love. Somebody die for love and some people kill for love. We can even fall into a clinical depression if we're rejected by the one we love. Love is unarguably one of the strongest and hard emotions that can be felt. The life will be infected because of the power of love. It plays a critical role in life-families are held together by love, and certain decisions are influenced by love. Recently, love is a common theme in literature, art, music, and plays. Some examples include the singer, George Benson in 'Nothing gone change my love for you', Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", and Greek mythological tales. All these are full of love. Love, one of the strongest emotions that man or woman can feel. It has the ability to dramatically alter his rationality and influence our decisions, as demonstrated through believe, history, and literature.

The meaning of love has not changed significantly over time. Its concept has not deviated much since its inception. The word "love" means affection and friendliness (Onions 611). For the Germanic and Celtic languages, the old Indo-European word for love meant "free", which led to a word meaning "desire" taking its place (Onions 612). Recently, love means essentially the same thing-warm affection, attachment, liking, fondness, affectionate devotion (Webster's 646), ardor, infatuation, passion, desire, attraction, and devotion (Roget's 296). There is virtually no change in the meaning of love from its origin to the present. These are the type of love that is most spiritual and demonstrated throughout the Bible. However, the wide range of interpretations that love can have is at times confusing-the "love" in "I love to eat" and "I love my girlfriend" is obviously used differently.

Depending on the context in which it is used, the word "love" can have many meanings and degrees of profundity. Stooge love refers to familial love-love between family members, such as that between parents and children (Tubs). Eros, or erotic love, is the type of romantic love shown between lovers and partners (Tubs). Ophelia is the love in friendships-it is the "embodiment of everything a true, meaningful friendship represents" (Tubs). Lastly, "agape love is the selfless love for others" (Tubs). When one expresses agape, one does not ask anything in return and is willing to make sacrifices for another.