Talk of love is everywhere. Movies, songs, books, poems, art; you cant throw a rock in our world without hitting something that was inspired by love somehow. Love hurts and scars, and yet love "lifts us up where we belong" but what is it really? As many different people as there are in this world so too are there interpretations for what love truely is. This topic may sound sappy, but certain recent events in my life made me realise that people have different ideas of what love is, and so out of curiousity, Id like to open it up for discussion here at TPM. Please think for a moment, and share what you think love is, be it a chemical reaction in the brain, a connection between two souls, or a useless plague upon humanity, or something in between. Since its a discussion, please be respectful to everyone else.
My opinion:
I think love is caring about someone else more than you care about yourself, its the willingness to do anything you can for their wellbeing. When you love someone you want them to be happy, even if that happiness means you must sacrifice your own. Love motivates you to do better, be better than you are, and it also motivates you to encourage and lift up the person you love. Love equals support, trust, thoughtfulness, kindness, loyalty and forgiveness.
That being said, on the flipside love can make you stupid, and cause you to tolerate things from someone that you normally would never dream of doing. Love can make you jealous and selfish, making people do negative things in the name of love or passion.
In essence, I believe in certain things that love is supposed to be, but I also know that people have their own versions of what love is and some versions arent compatible, because they foster the negative sides of love. Even so, whether this makes me naiive or not I still believe that its possible to love someone without all the negative side effects of it. So I guess generally I think its a good thing.

What do you think?
PS: In case I think of something later Ill be adding to my opinion <3 lol