It is rain after the dryness...

If you have known me well enough, or long enough, you have probably heard me ramble on about my definition of love. It's a work in progress of course. Ill probably have to find that right person for me before i can finalize my definition, but i think i've come a long was since what i thought love was, say 10 years ago.

I was up until about 3am last night having a great discussion that included talking about what love is. Im not quite sure how we got on such a topic, but thats ok. It felt good to wrap my head around this concept of love, as i don't think i have thought about it in a little while.

Im not going to get into my personal definition of love. If you want that you'll have to get me one on one over a cup of tea or late at night talking after a good movie. I did discover last night a bunch of random definitons from other people that i found interesting, so i thought i would share those. Feel free to share any definitions of your own for love that you have come up with, or discovered along life's journey.

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

"There are many different meanings we attach to the word love, but the most important aspect of all of them, and probably the only one that applies across all meanings, is the promise not to betray"

"Love is the tendency not to betray, without necessarily having any particular reason to do this"

"Love is giving someone the ability to destroy you but *trusting* them not to do it"

"Love is when you need someone to be a part of your life, even when they are boring and dumb and rude, because you know they will again have one of those moments where they shine and that light is what you need to survive"