“Love is the greatest gift we can ever hope to give or receive. Love is the one thing that can overcome so many of the difficult times that we are faced with in life. Love is so powerful - it can turn frowns into smiles. It can help mend the most broken heart. It can even turn all of the ugliness in the world into the most beautiful portrait we could ever have the pleasure to behold,” (Deboer). When people say the word love, we could think of so many different meanings or things in this world that define the word love. For example one person may say love is friendship, and kindness. Another person may say its romantic, and affection. Some people spend a whole life time searching for love. Some people find love in drugs, sex, alcohol, self-harm, and abuse. We never think of defining the word love because everyone has their own type of love, and experience’s towards love differently. The word love to me means that you have someone or something in this world that is capable of giving you the same compassion, loyalty, and sacrifice you have given to them in return. Merriam-Webster defines the word “love” as a “feeling of strong or constant affection for a person,” “attraction that includes sexual desire,” and “the strong affection felt by people who have a romantic relationship,” (Merriam). In the Oxford American English Dictionary “love” means an “intense feeling of deep affection,” (Oxford). According to Your Dictionary the definition of “love is a feeling of deep affection, passion or strong liking for a person or thing,” (Your Dictionary). In addition Dictionary defines the word ‘love’ as “profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person,” “a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend,” (Dictionary). I have experienced all of these definitions at one point or another in my life. From feeling personal attachment towards my child, and from feeli