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Well it's love for a reason

Love, a universal definition of it has eluded everyone since forever, and I won't pretend that I'm the one who can establish it. Dictionaries are just as vague, so they're no help. With that in mind, let's look at love by its common effects rather than try to define love itself; obviously there are fringe cases where love takes a radically different form but I'll be playing the average game here.

Love typically takes the form of a desire to be with someone, for that person to be safe and happy, and all that sappy stuff.At the root of that desire is that for the one in love, that person is someone special; separate from other, ordinary people in a positive way.

There can thus be two opposites to love: Hatred, which still comes from considering someone special but in a negative way and indifference, which is to not care at all what happens to a person and to not even notice them among the masses.

That is to say, love as a feeling comes from what you consider interesting; for the qualities of someone (or what you believe their qualities to be) to catch your attention in a way the rest of the world doesn't. To want to spend time with someone, to enjoy talking to them, to want to know them; that's being interested in them.