LOVE......What is it actually???

LOVE

love...what actually is love????
when I tried to find the definition of love in dictionary...
what I got is "a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person"
Is that all love is???
this is one question that i ask myself hundreds of times....
Might be this is what love is but according to me its much more than just this...isnt it???

I can share some instances..what i feel is also love

"when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your french fries without making them give you any of theirs."
"when someone hurts you. And you get so mad but you don't yell at him because you know it would hurt his feelings."
"When you tell someone something bad about yourself and you're scared she won't love you anymore. But then you get surprised because not only does she still love you, she loves you even more."
"when you can wait the whole day for two mins to talk to the person you love
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Some people say that when u live then u tend to love...But what i feel is that when u love then only you can live...
A person who doesn't know how to love..how can he live..

When we talk about love the first relation that strikes our mind is that of a girl and a boy who are lovers....but is that the only form of love????
The most selfless form of love is the love of a mother for her children...She can sacrifice everything for her children,to see them happy to see them content..
From my childhood I have seen my mother sacrificing her sleep when we were sick,when we needed to get up early in morning to study..we have seen her sacrificing her likings for our pleasure..she has given us everything...and that too without even once saying that she did that for us...
And today people say that its their duty or FARZ to do that....But thats absurd...Its the love not FARZ..

When we talk about two people who met somewhere and as usually said "Fell In Love"...what exactly they speak about what is love...
Some would say that
"Love is a feeling of high emotional affiliation...which sends a person's ego to dizzying heights" OR "Love is the emotional feeling two people receive when they both have sexual and Platonic love in the proper proportions."

Some would describe it as
"Love is the end result of a mature union of two compatible personalities." OR
Love is helping the other person whenever he needs it...being his companion. It's having common goals, dreams, and ambitions." OR
"Love is doing things together and liking it."

And for Some it would be

"Love is giving--time, understanding, yourself." OR
"Love is to give of oneself to another."


But is this LOVE??
If we talk about emotional affiliation then how intense should it be to describe love...physical attraction or attraction...is this infatuation or is this LOVE?
If we talk about Compatibility then are two friends who are compatible..are lovers?
If LOVE is giving then wanting one's own happiness is wrong when you are in LOVE...isn't it? and if you are not happy is that LOVE then????

As I do believe in LOVE but these questions can intrigue anyone who is a normal human being like me.....
But at the end I just wanna say that whatever LOVE is....one should follow what he thinks about it......
LOVE thus I can say that truly cant be described in words and no dictionary can give the perfect definition for this word......