An emotion which has loads of affection for someone, that tenderness and deep passion, such a feeling is called love. It is a feeling where personal attachments happen out of fondness and deep connection to the next. A feeling where desire and sexual passion also makes it way inroads too, which isn’t the case with friendship, say many. Friendship happens when there is mutual admiration and fixation for one another.

Why are we fascinated with love?

1. As humans we are, let’s face it. Love is a need which we all have; we crave for it and would turn the world upside down to have it. Check online and there are many websites dedicated to love. Throughout history we have learnt about lovers and their ordeals, we have read stories and enjoyed poems on love. Some of us even write prose, sonnets and paint, keeping love as a theme.

2. Love in a capsule has human kindness in abundance; it also entails affection and compassion too. As an emotion it is benevolent and compassionate, it helps an individual express their feelings in the right way. Love in short is the birth place of romance, and much more as well

Varied feelings:

Love needn’t be defined as a culmination of two souls romantically. It can be a feeling that crosses all boundaries, castes, race, genders, orientation, and interpersonal attraction too. Some look at love as desirous, some as a familiar, some in a platonic way, and some in forms of a religious outburst from within. In short, it is a concept that binds ones another, with feelings that cannot be defined. However, when it comes to romantic love between two individual souls, the love here is distinct and one of a kind

Platonic love:

a. Non romantic

b. Friendship

c. No sexual connotations involved

d. Friends, parents, siblings or your children

e. Pure and kind

Romantic love: