The reason I said, "I think this is a funny thing," is because of what a lot of people concieve as "Love."

    Some easily say, "Oh, love is a really strong emotion you feel for someone you care a lot about," or "Love is an incredibly powerful word. When you’re in love, you always want to be together, and when you’re not, you’re thinking about being together because you need that person and without them your life is incomplete" or "LOVE=simple concept, complex feelings....when nothing else really matters execpt for the person you are in love with."  While these are answers that most would consider entirely credible and, many would say, true to one or more of these.

    See, in my opinion, love is definitely a WHOLE lot MORE than "a powerful word" or "a simple concept."

    Love may seem like it has an obvious defintion like "strong emotion" but then, if you really think about it, it seems much more complicated than that...But really I think there is a simple explanation for what love means, not a really strong emotion. 

    I didn’t actually understand all of this until just recently, and I will admit, I still don’t know everything about it.  I really don’t believe anyone can give you an exact defintion of love because it’s really something that I think is beyond anyone’s comprehension to entirely understand.

    First, love is spelled t-i-m-e, not l-o-v-e because without time, there can’t be love.  You can’t meet someone and instantly say, "I love that person" and really mean it.  Is love at first sight possible? I don’t really think so, you can meet someone and know without a doubt "They’re the one.  That is the person God has made just for me," but you don’t instantly love them, it’s not possible, love takes time.  It may be anywhere from like a week to more than a year, but it’s not as easy as seeing them, loving them, living happily ever after. 

Love is NOT...

~A warm fuzzy feeling

~Liking someone a lot

~Feeling different around one person than you do around other people

~A feeling period!

~Jealous

~Boastful

~Prideful

~Something that will ever end

~Impatient

~Unforgiving

...Love does not keep a memory of things that were mistakes.  It is forgiving, if it is forgiving, it is therefore something that will not remember things done against it; if one says "I forgive you" and really means it, they won’t bring it up anymore, they won’t hold whatever that was against you, their love for you will not change.  Love is unconditional, therefore if you truly love them, that love will not change.

    If people would actually wait until they really love their boyfriend/girlfriend/fiance, then when they make the choice of getting married, there wouldn’t be so much divorce in our world today.  People use things such as, "I did love them, but I fell out of love with them," would not even be a plausible thing.  True Love does not end.

    The statement, "Love is not jealous" is something that has more meaning than I think some may realize.  This means, you could tell someone...like the person you consider your best friend, "I love you," then you may see them and they may be with someone that they consider their "best friend" that isn’t you.  You may get jealous and think, "Well, they didn’t ask me if I wanted to do anything this weekend."  So, according to what the Bible says, do you REALLY love them?

-Just a few things to contemplate.  A lot of this is my opinion, but I have tried to back it up with references straight from the Bible.

Hope it was enlightening to someone.