love is....

Love is not …dream of roses and candlelight, walking on the beach at sunset, and dancing in the rain.
Love is not …fairy-tales.
love is not … somewhere out there is a knight in shining armour ready to carry them off, or a beautiful princess waiting to be carried off into the sunset .
Love is not… wearing rose-coloured glasses.
Love is not…have their feet on the ground, but their souls fly somewhere over the rainbow.
Then what is love???
Love is not a question either…
It is an answer and it deserves to be repeated when ever the question is asked.

What is the question? Everything. Everything from, "How do I look?" to "Will you turn off the oven?" "What's on television?" "Where are you going?" "Do you love me?" "Can you feed the dog?" "Who’s on first?"

Love. Love. Love. Love. Always the answer. Different forms and different faces to respond to but always the same.

you have already been told to tell people they are beautiful and then you will change the world. This is true.
What you also need to know is that if you tell people that you love them, you will make their world beautiful. It keeps happening to me. Listen.

Six years ago I thought my world would end. I lost everything I thought I had and didn't know what to do with myself.
I met a girl in a bar and I got drunk enough to ask her, "What will I do with my life? Where will I go? What is left?"

she said, "Love."

Oh, there were many more words that went along with that but that is the only part I got. The jukebox and the hoots and hollers drowned out the rest of the conversation. The pool balls broke and cracked the middle of his sentences. I didn't hear them. So it was love, love, love, repeating through my head breaking the monotonous hum of sliding glasses and country music.

she was right. Love. And it all worked out.

It all comes back to me. To you. To him and to her. You tell people you love them and it makes them stop and think. It makes them fall in love with the world all over again.

I know this boy, age 18. Prime in puberty and emotions and tempers. Angry and he doesn't know why.
But when the girl from algebra class told him that she loved him, he wasn't angry anymore. He knows why.
He took a test in math and the bonus question was, "What do you call it when you have zero points in tennis?"

Love.