Your Love Story

Every classic fairy tale has a magical love story where the beautiful maiden meets her prince charming momentarily before they are taken from each other. It's love at first sight and prince charming must then save his princess. And once they have both fought valiantly, they ride off into the sunset and "live happily ever after."

Although these tales teach us priceless lessons and values to apply to our lives, the real way that romance works isn't one of them. We all ask ourselves, "How do you know when you're in love?" If you are basing your findings on Cinderella or Snow White, I'm afraid you are going to find it nearly, if not wholly, impossible to find Mr. Right.

What is love? How do we know when we love someone. My greatest findings this week were those differing definitions given by the Greeks. Our book gave us 4 different types of love; Agape, Storge, Eros, and Philia.

Agape is the love that we have for all mankind, whether they like them or not. Storge is that love that a parent has for their child, the kind where we love the person no matter what they are like. Eros is the kind in those classic fairy tales, the attraction between 2 people. And finally we have Philia that is shared between 2 friends.

If we combine these 4 different definitions of love, we can find our prince or princess. It's not all about "love" at first sight. True love comes in many different forms and grows stronger in each area over time. That is where we get our hard worked for, but incredibly worth it "happily ever after".