"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
             Everyone is a philosopher when it comes to love. Definitions are "a dime a dozen." Some says, "love is a rose, "fragrant and beautiful, but thorny and painful". The modern mind thinks of love in vague, nebulous, existential and non-definable terms. It's something happens to you and can't be defined. According to the Oxford Dictionary, "love is a deep affection or fondness, sexual passion, sexual relations for beloved one or sweetheart." Love is one of the most precious and treasured feelings in one's life Love is known since the time of Adam and Eve. Being in love gives a sense of completeness. It makes one feel as if nothing else is needed in order to survive in this world. Sometimes, being in love can act as a stepping-stone, or a doorway passage into another world that you never knew what was out there.
             Love can give you a new outlook on things, turns everything you've ever known into something you never thought was possible. Love can also strengthen a 'tie' or 'bond' that you may have with someone, in a sense that you have that much more in common. Many love stories that we've heard such as Romeo and Juliet, Laila and Majnun, Shah Jehan and Mumtaz Mahal, just to name a few. These love stories began with lavishing love but ended in griefs.
             Love is said to strike when Cupid, the God of Love, struck the arrow of love to the victims, according to Greek Myth. So, the name of Cupid is used synonymously with the concept of love today. Is love so precious and great? However, does love has a universal value? Is it the same around the world? As for me, love is different between genders and cultures. Undeniably, love is different between projection love and love towards objects too. Love has a different conception between individuals. Therefore, loves between genders are different too. Man and woman do not love the same way. Men, who are th...