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Love is still love, no matter what.
I do think that people have lost grips with it's true meaning, though. Yes, "love" is used waaaay too frequently in relationships. You are right--people do tend to confuse it more with infatuation or like.
Love is not who is hot or who is popular or who gets you what you really want. I think the best definition of love--and most beautiful--is found in the Bible. And there's something about the old-time word of "Charity", which was a word synonymous with "love", that kinda gives it even more:
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
(1 Corinthians 13:1-8 )
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