What is love?

Is it something that is possible at first sight? An energy? A feeling? A way of being?

Can you be in love with someone one moment and not the next? Can you fall in love over and over again? Can you fall out of love and back in love with the same person?

Is love a powerful force enough for two people to prevail through the hardships, ups, downs, peaks and valleys of a relationship? Or does love skip and hop freely, vibrating to the next force of energy? Is love something built over time or is it an unexplainable, instant chemistry?

I thought I understood what love meant. I thought I loved myself wholly, loved others unconditionally, and was loved by others as well. I am now reaccessing my definitions of love and discovering that what I thought was love was really just a bunch of emotions, conditions and blinding lust. I am discovering that there are so many different forms of love with someone throughout a relationship – lustful love, blind love, romantic love, caring love, nurturing love, content love…in love….while the actions, symptoms and feelings may be different with each form of love, at the end of the day, they are all just part of one grand thing. Whatever verb you use to put in front of it, love… is love.