Love:

This all started with a simple question: What would you choose; True love with the guarantee of heartbreak or never being loved??

This aroused thoughts i really didn't understand.

What is love? and How would one define it?

This is a hard topic because love is so diverse. There isn't one set definition for "love" but ill do my best.

The Ancient Greeks believed love to be the eternal bond with another person. They believed love is essential to life. They broke down love into four types: Eros was the love of affection and obsession. Phileo was the love of friendship. Storage was the love of family and relatives. The last love agape, this was unconditional love that you would do anything for. Without love there is no light, there is no life, and there is no order.

The Ancient Greeks did believe in soul mates. A soul mate is no just someone you are instantly hot for, although attraction is often the beacon which draws us to them first. The soul mate bond is for more complexes, more subtle, more than anything that could be devised by conventional relationship expectations. Does anyone really know what love is or what the effects of love are? I doubt it.

Webster dictionary defines love as a strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties, as an attraction based on sexual desires: affection and tenderness felt by lovers and as an affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interest. Love has several different meanings in the English language, from something that gives little pleasure to something that one would die for. It can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion, or an emotional state. Just as there are many types of lovers, there are many types of love. Love is inherent in all human cultures. It is precisely these cultural differences that make any universal definition of love difficult to establish. Expressions of love may include the love for a soul or mind, love of laws, love for a body, love for nature, love of food, love of money, love for learning, love of power and fame, love for respect, and many more. Different cultures and people place varying degrees of importance on the kinds of love they receive.

So my question is if there are so many different types of love and love could mean a million different feelings then how can we ever be sure we're making the right choice when it comes to love?