by Timiarah A. Camburn

Created on: January 01, 2011

Something that is true is said to be consistent with reality and not false or erroneous. Something true is also steadfast, loyal, honest, and just. True love must then be love that is loyal, honest, just, and real. That was easy enough to define right? Wrong. What in the world does that really mean? What the heck is a love that that is honest, real, etc.? Love is such an abstract concept that we have not even gotten its definition straight yet, so how can we define which form of it is true? Perhaps there is a way.

In order to define what true love is let us first take a look at what true love is not. True love is not the love that a mother has for her child. This kind of love is more of a naturally forced love. Human instinct forces a woman to immediately care for, protect, and adore her child for the duration of its life. She has to. It is an unwritten law of humanity. No mother is allowed to not love her child, even an axe murderer's mother. Even if the her offspring has nothing about himself that anyone could every possibly love, she still has to love him. Forced love can not be genuine. Therefore, this kind of love is not true.

The very same concept applies to brothers, sisters, and other family members. The love is born only of blood obligation so it is not genuine or honest. How many people would really love some of their creepy cousins if they did not have to?

A friendship is closer to being true than a family love, but it does not quite fit the bill because of the consistency factor. Friendships come and go. Very rarely will a friendship last an entire lifetime. A true love will.

True love (in theory) is a love that one non related person has for another person for reasons either known or unknown. True love is never forced, it just happens. It does not always make sense, yet it remains consistent. It is genuine because it exists unconditionally for a person we are not obligated to care for . It is truthful and honest because the heart never lies. Steadfast because it never seems to go away.

An individual can love many people throughout life, but only one love is true. It is the one love that keeps on breathing despite any efforts to silence it. It is the one love that a person can not run away from no matter how many miles are fled. It is a part of reality where ever one goes. It walks into dreams and creeps into thoughts. It is not forced by blood but chosen by the soul.

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