ROMEO & JULIET

Love is an emotion of a strong
affection and personal attachment.
Love is also said to be a virtue
representing all of human kindness ,
compassion, and affection —"the
unselfish loyal and benevolent
concern for the good of another".
Love may describe
compassionate and affectionate
actions towards other humans,
one's self or animals.
In English, love refers to a variety of
different feelings, states, and
attitudes, ranging from pleasure ("I
loved that meal") to interpersonal
attraction ("I love my partner").
"Love" may refer specifically to the
passionate desire and intimacy of
romantic love, to the sexual love of
eros, to the emotional closeness of
familial love, to the platonic love
that defines friendship , or to the
profound oneness or devotion of
religious love, or to a concept of
love that encompasses all of those
feelings. This diversity of uses and
meanings, combined with the
complexity of the feelings involved,
makes love unusually difficult to
consistently define, compared to
other emotional states.
Love in its various forms acts as a
major facilitator of interpersonal
relationships and, owing to its
central psychological importance, is
one of the most common themes
in the creative arts.
Love may be understood as part of
the survival instinct, a function to
keep human beings together
against menaces and to facilitate
the continuation of the species.