What is love… baby... don't hurt… me?

For those of you who actually got the joke, this blog is not about the popular dance song from the eighties or nineties (whenever it came out). But, what is love? To be honest, and to sadden all of those hopeless romantics, love is, like a relationship, just a word. However, to brighten up those saddened faces, the word does point to something. Unfortunately, people quite often are pointing to many different things when they use the word love. The Latin language alone has, I believe, more than twenty definitions and uses for the word love, and even in our society today we have a myriad of connotative uses for "love". Why so? How can it be both a noun and a verb, yet still be thought of in the same context?

What I recommend to everyone, men, women, white, black, perhaps even purple, is to think about and explain what they mean when they say "I love you" or "I am loving this" instead of relying on the word to relay the message. Perhaps this can save a few potential broken hearts.