Love
Love. Isn’t that what it’s all really about? (Aside from the hokey pokey, of course.) Regardless of how successful one is in possibly every other aspect of life, if there is neglect in the realm of love and affection, everything else seems to kind of fall apart … doesn’t it? So, if something is that important to our well-being and to the truly satisfying living of our lives, then why is it that we still seem to struggle so much with understanding it and embracing it for what it is, and what it can be? Maybe it’s because love is a chronic shape-shifter; romantic love, kindred-spirit love, familial love, brotherly/sisterly love, BFF love, mentor-mentee love, pet/pet-owner love, love as a metaphor vs. love as a (usually inconvenient) reality. With so many incarnations of one label playing a role in our daily lives in some way or another—whether with its presence or its absence—how can we be expected to be able to pinpoint and simply define what exactly love is, what it looks like, or wh...