There is also Self Love, Material Love, Selfless Love, Love for gain, True Love, Fake Love... I believe love is anything YOU want it to be. Whether you have a love for art, a love for your neighbor, a love for yourself, or love for that special someone, YOU decide what love is. Never let anyone tell you what love is. Love is what you want, not what someone else wants. If you want love, embrace it! Let it overwhelm you, and once you meet that person youll know at that moment whether you truly love them or not. Actually, its different for everyone. It may take a traumatic event to make you realize, or it may take something like reading a book to understand that you love that person. Love is...whatever you deem it is.
The Encyclopedia Galactica, in its chapter on Love states that it is far too complicated to define. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of love: "Avoid, if at all possible."
* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), film based on the novel by Douglas Adams
All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope. All the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there's someone perfect who might be searching for us.
* Kevin Arnold (played by Daniel Stern) narrating in The Wonder Years (1988)