ESSAY OF LOVE

What is the one emotion that has everyone
mystified? What is the one emotion that has
started as many wars as it has ended? What
emotion has had more plays, songs, and stories
written about it than anything else? Love, that
one emotion that makes enemies into friends and
friends into enemies. So many legends surround
this emotion, from the goddess Athena and Helen
of Troy to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Love comes in so many different levels, that it
doesn't appear to be the same emotion at all, but
it is. There is so much to love, that it will be hard
to put into this simple essay. It can tear people
apart and make us do irrational things to bringing
together entire nations. What can this emotion
not do? It's hard to tell, but there is a lot it can.
This emotion, bring tears to our eyes when
something happens to our family members,
friends, and pets. When we feel love ripped from
us, as in death or being spurned by another, we
do things we wouldn't normally do, such as go on
violent rampages, or mourn to the extent that our
loved ones have to watch us constantly to make
sure we don't try anything like suicide. Some can
move on, always remembering the lost loved one
after a while, but others can not let go. These are
the ones that need our love and support the
most.
There are so many levels to love, that I can only
express a few of them here. These are the ones
we see most in life. Friendship starts this list off.
Yes, it doesn't seem like it, but we do feel love
towards our friends, this is what helps us get
along so well, and why we miss them when we
don't see our friends for a long time. It's also
why we hold certain friends over others no matter
what happens. Sometimes, the bond between
friends deepens to the point where a stronger
bond of love is made, making them family.
Another level of love, are for our siblings and
other family members. Even though we do things
to our family members, and sometimes we don't
like some of our family, that bond is still there.
It's this family bond level of love that brought
about the phrase, blood is thicker than water. We
will do things for our brothers, sisters, mothers,
fathers, and children before we would even
consider doing them for anyone else. Many wars
have been started because of this family level,
brother avenging brother or father, father
protecting his wife and children, or even vice
versa. This simple family bond can even extend to
include our pets, amazingly enough, and that is a
good thing.
A third level to love, is the bond that brings man
and woman together. This level is among the
strongest of them all. It is this level of love that
has brought together kingdoms into nations in the
past, and ended many great wars. It's is also for
the love of a woman that has started a few of our
well-known wars, like the Trojan Wars of ancient
times. It's brought together families that have
argued for years and years, such as in the
Shakespearean play, Romeo and Juliet. Even
though the two mentioned killed themselves in the
end, it still brought their families together.
The last mentionable level of love is that bond
between a mother and her children. There is no
stronger, nor will there ever be. This bond starts
from the very first tiny fluttering of movement and
never ends, even after death of the child. A
mother protects her children in the name of love,
and directs them through life using it as the
example to follow. Well, at least it should be. It's
because of her children a mother will work at a
job she hates, just to make sure they have
everything they could ever want or need.
The phrase, love makes the world go round is
very true. It's is our driving force, for what ever
reason it may be. Poems, plays, and legends can
only briefly touch the true meaning of love. We
can only feel what that meaning is, and express it
in ways only we can understand towards another.
The true question we should be asking is not,
what is life, but what is love.
What is love? I don't know, but I'll do what I can
to express it to my son, my husband, my family
and friends, and to every single pet I have or ever
will own in the best possible way that I can.