What is Love?

So we asked two of our writers to answer the question, what is love? This is what they had to say.

1st Response:

Love can be an all encompassing emotion. It can control our mind and body and change the very fabric of our being. What we once thought was impossible will now seem possible. Our very reality changes and warps to focus on the source of our affection. There is no one else. There is nothing else. This is when love can become dangerous. Well, it is an inevitability of love that one will feel such a deep emotional connection to that person that any happiness or sadness that is felt by that person will be amplified tenfold for the one who loves them. Is this then then true love? Well, true love is not a physical connection. Yes, it may be an element of it but true love constitutes a spiritual connection, one that does not fall within the boundaries of the physical world and it’s many limitations.

2nd Response:

I find myself short of words whenever I try to explain this single word, love. I like to believe that it is one of the divine secrets. It is revealed to those who ‘fall’ in love. Willingly or unwillingly. Only those who are ready to jump into the fire and extinguish their own selves, can find out that fire has turned into a bed of roses by the God of love. I believe that love is sacred. It is powerful. It is so powerful that only love can make Mansur can hang by the noose. Only love made Joseph the king of Egypt after he had been separated from his father. Only love had the power to take away light from Jacob’s eyes, only to give it back after years of patience. Ranjha, lost himself in the forest Jhang and Qais turned into a madman. Sassi burned herself in the scorching desert and Sohni drowned herself herself in the frenzied waves, only because of love.