Words. They can kill. They can destroy. They can build. They can create. They can form a new empire; they can destroy one as well. They can heal the wounded and destroy the powerful. They can form a new bond or can destroy an old one. They can bring smiles to those in the lowest pits, and they can cause misery to those on the topmost mountains. There’s a word that can do all these things and multitudes more. It is often dubbed as one of the most undefinable words in the world and its name is ‘love’.
Love throughout the ages has brought people together, but it has also torn people apart. Friendships are formed on its base, yet friendships are destroyed there as well. Families join together in harmony at its base, yet families separate there as well. Love has formed and destroyed boundaries between religion, gender, race, age, etc. Love has imprisoned some people in a cage in which they couldn’t escape. Love itself has many official definitions: an intense feeling of deep affection; a person or thing that one loves; feel a deep romantic or sexual attachment to (someone); when the brain has high levels of dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin. Love even has a chemical formula! Love is described as a complex and impossible idea to understand, yet it’s considered one of the simplest concepts to understand. But
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Every language has always had a word for that weird, ooey-gooey, fuzzy feeling one gets when around the person(s) whom they love. For Spanish speakers, they have ‘amor’, which is said to come from Old French’s ‘amor’ which means “love, affection, friendship; loved one”. The French’s word for love is now ‘amour’ which clearly resembles the Spanish word and has the same definition. They both are from the same language family and subfamily. This subfamily also includes Portuguese and Italian, whose words for love are ‘amor’ and ‘amore’. As one can see, they bear resemblance to the other two romantic