What is love?! This is a really hard question and harder subject to write about. I tried searching for meanings of love in poems, in self-help books, on the Internet, the dictionary, but I couldn't find just one description. I recognized that there is no one definition for love. Everybody has his/her own ideas and descriptions about what love is and what it means to him/her. For example, when I looked up "love" in the library, the page came up with a lot of things such as friendship, marriage, attachment, summer love, first loves, intimacy, etc. The same thing occurred when I searched on the Internet. One good example, the definition of love in the Webster's dictionary is, "An intense affection for another person based on familial or personal …show more content…
In what way? Jesus says essentially: I begin with your inherent, profound, characterizing human attribute, your affection for yourself. This is a given. I don't charge it; I accept it. Every one of you has an effective impulse of self-safeguarding and self-satisfaction. All of you need to be glad. All of you need to live and to live with fulfillment. You need sustenance for yourself. You need garments for yourself. You need a spot to live for yourself. You need insurance from roughness against yourself. You need important or charming movement to fill your days. You need some friends to like you and invest some time with you. You need your life to count somehow. This is self-love. Self-love is the profound aching to lessen torment and to expand joy. That is the thing that Jesus begins with when he says, "as yourself." Everybody, regardless, has this human characteristic. This is the thing that moves us to do either. Indeed, even suicide is sought after out of this rule of self-love. Amidst a sentiment utter aimless and misery and deadness of melancholy the spirit says: "It can't get any worse than this. So even if I don't know what I will gain through death, I do know what I will escape." And so suicide is an endeavor to get away from the insufferable. It is a demonstration of