Do people know what love is anymore?

I believe that the true definition of love has died. Anyone wonder why relationships aren't like they were when your grandparents were young? Does anyone ever wonder why grandma and grandpa stayed together for 50 years and you can barely make a relationship last 50 mins? Oh don't be fooled by the sexual reference, it's not because people are having sex at an earlier age or before marriage.

I feel that we've lost the knowledge of true love and what it represents. Undoubtedly this is a media drive age. We're fascinated by what is in magazines and on t.v. We let televised match makers tell us what we need, we listen to songs about what we need in our love life by people who already have everything that they're singing about (single ladies comes to mind), and we praise those that don't deserve our praise.

I think that because of our infactuation with the physical and material things in the world we've lost touch with the emotional and intellectual beauty of people. We're so caught up on what kind of car someone drives, how big their bank account is, or how good they look in a bathing suit that we fail to realize that who we're lusting over is really an idiot who has no goals except to stay looking physically attractive as long as they can. What about what they do to you emotionally? What other senses do they stimulate? are they only appealing to the eye? I like to look at statues, but eventually I'm going to get tired of looking at it. What can someone bring to the table that's unique?

I think we throw love around too loosely, people using love to advance themselves and get what they want, be it gifts or sex. That's also how love is dying. People who truly love someone are hearing that the person they love, loves them back, when in reality that person is only claiming that they're in love.

Love can't be bought. Love isn't seen with the naked eye, but it's felt in the soul. Love is actually indescribeable. People are going about finding love all wrong, they say they're going to marry a Doctor or a Lawyer or a Swimsuit Model, but will you love them?

Love isn't easy, no relationship ever is, sometimes it will rain and there will be trying times, sometimes you'll have sunny days where everything is as it should, and there are magic moments where you draw strength from one another and push through those rainy days until the sun shines through the clouds and you experience a rainbow of feeling and emotion that you never thought imaginable. That's love.

Roderic