love as defined in the dictionary

1. A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.
2. A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance.
3. Sexual passion.
4. Sexual intercourse.
5. A love affair.
6. An intense emotional attachment, as for a pet or treasured object.
7. A person who is the object of deep or intense affection or attraction; beloved. Often used as a term of endearment.
8. An expression of one's affection
9. A strong predilection or enthusiasm
10. The object of such an enthusiasm

is love as simple as this?
or is there more to these 4 letters
so many times. we see love as an immediate feeling. something u see straight in a person. wheter for his/her/its looks or any other reason. yet is this all to it?

is it just the feeling u get when u first realised that u want that person, or held hands for the first time, kissed for the first time, the night before your wedding? rather its the commitment and feelings we have when we choose to stick in after all these feelings from these "firsts" are gone and trouble start to appear.

we choose to love the feeling of love rather den loving the person him/her/itself. yet is this all that "love" is worth?

i remember how as a kid i used to believe that when i grow up. ill never be like my father and get tempers and stuff and blame it on the family. boy was i wrong. so many times we think of wad we want to be, or rather, someone we dun wan to be. yet we throw these dreams aside as we grow up. our dreams for our families, for friends and others of sorts.

love and live
only a single letter difference
yet both could be so interlinked or yet so apart
is to love to live or to live to love
or do u long for the love only after it has gone away

if u find it
if u feel it
take a step back and see
what u would really give for that love
not just for your selfish intentions of showing off or for the fun of it
but that it would make you happy
and the other party as well
if u dun see any of it. den its your own gamble

in the end
it could be just another overrated 4 letters to you
or something that could very well change your life

just food for thought
for the heartbreaks and love that will never return