What Is Love

was asked by a friend what love was, and after a while of thinking i realised i couldn;t put it into words exactly what it was.
the closest way i could describe it:
Love is the greatest feeling you can feel. Warmth, comfort, happiness, excitment and hope all at oncem when the person you love loves you back. It;s one of the greatest feelings in the world that anyone can have.
However if that person doesn't love you in return it can be the most painful experience of your life. Sadness, Sickness, Dispair and hopelessness. It's one of the worst feelings you will ever know, words can't describe the pain until you have been through it.
No one ever get's over a lover. They will always rememeber them everyday until they die. However it is our own choice as to how we act to it. How we choose to live with it. Do we live everyday crying over that person who never loved us back? Or do we live life and meet more people who are going to break are heart? How do we know that instead of 'marrying the one' we lose them in the first stages of our lives and never get them back again.
How do we know when we've lost are chance? And how do we know when we have more chances left..?
We All suffer when love goes wrong, but how do we learn to live through the pain? Is there some kind of strength we gain even though we feel completly hopeless.
The only person who we need to gain returned love from is ourselves. We will never be loved if we can't love ourselves.
Live for yourself
Not For the Love of another.
It's not our choice to feel pain.
It's our choice if we wish to suffer from it.