Love is.....

the sweetest thing, so they say. However, what love is most definitely NOT is the commercialized claptrap they try to flog you at this time of year. And love isn't just the romantic, icky-sticky sentimentalised candy-floss kind that gets shoved down our throats, either. The Greeks identified five kinds of love - erotiic, platonic, affectionate, brotherly, and ........another one that I can't remember, so why do we assume that romance is the only one thats counts?From childhood, women of each generation are inculcated with the myth of 'grow up, fall in love, live happily ever after' A fifty per cent divorce rate does nothing to put us off, either. We remain stubborn in our belief that we just have to find the right person, and then the rest will take care of itself.
Love is many things, indeed the only thing that really counts for anything, and you can't put a price on it. Neither can you make anyone love you, or make yourself love them. You can't find love by looking for it, it will find you in its own time.