the jaded
by rantywoman
Because no matter how hard you try to hold on to the idea that love is the only thing left in the world worth believing in the one guiding light you need and a spiritual force to be reckoned with reality is hell-bent on teasing, testing and taunting such notions into submission. And when fairy-tale notions of romance are removed, what are we left with? Is love as pragmatic as two people deciding to support each other until one of them dies? Is love a higher plain that we can ascend to via a combination of behavioural insight and tantric knowledge? Or is love, to return to the lyrics of a popular song, nothing more than “a simple prop” to occupy our time?
thebitterbabe 
I think love is the essence and basis of life really. But I mean that in a very broad sense, not limited to romantic love, or familial love, or love between people. Love is what brings meaning and motivation to life IMO.