Love triggers the deepest feelings ever and it brings about moods, which are, at times, very radical, such as the most wonderful happiness when taken in its most positive sense.

Love between woman and man is the most archetypical and worldwide, but it is far from being the only one. There are zillions of ways of feeling and expressing love.

Love is also found among other beings and it can even be found in inanimate, abstract objects: places, situations, books, films, landscapes, odours, flavours, recollections and on and on and on. Anything that capable of moving us is likely to make us fall in love. It is an immeasurable feeling. The paradigm is love among people.

Apart from chemical reactions and scientific terms, a feeling for another person can come from a number of reasons, such as similar tastes, hobbies, interests, curiosity, family links, communing and the like.

Love doesn´t have to be requited to survive. But it is true that the feeling grows and thrives if it is.

There is a decisive factor in family love, which is the links among the members since birth. Such links can be a source of tremendous strength and the perfect foundation to build a feeling bound to last us a whole lifetime. But they are not indestructible. Cherishing such a love entails responsibility which must be shown with facts that prove that such affection does exist and that there is a determination to look after it.

Our closest relatives, parents and siblings, as well as grandparents, uncles and aunts, cousins… often take on greater protagonism as they are in charge of our upbringing, maintenance, growth, rearing us and showing us ways to be happy, thus contributing to our insertion into a society which we are unaware of at birth.

Coexistence deeply influences us, thus time shared properly enhances the bonds and the trust. And if it we are talking about people who have watched over us since the word go, our feeling of gratitude, as well as our love for them is absolutely overwhelming.

When it is up to us to raise our own family, we should endeavour to hand over the love that we might have felt, thanks to the ones who did likewise for us and to our ability to develop it.

The sum total of all of this gives rise to the feeling among generations and to the survival of affection.

A love very close to family love can be found in friendship. But friends are people that we choose when we find affinities that can throw us together.

Time is of the utmost importance when it comes to striking up a relationship, even more so when it is a relationship as crucial as friendship. It is something that props up throughout life when we come in contact with other people. There are many factors and circumstances that may come up daily, which affect our behaviour, which says a lot about us. It might be beneficial to have a first encounter in which common features may arise and others which may draw our attention towards that potential friend.

On the other hand, in order to develop friendship and for that love to come about, the main thing is to share time together in diverse environments, where different situations will come up and where we will have to respond to them with transparency, showing ourselves just the way we are.

Friendship also involves responsibility. And a very beautiful one at that. Assuming that is to know full well that the people that we choose are like an elongation of our family. In other words, reliable people. And such a beautiful prerogative can only be attained by those who prove that they deserve it, not necessarily a cast of thousands ore even more than one.

It is a good job that they do exist, because they shed their own light on life, in fact, a different one from the one that we are used to, which can make us learn and go on with our personal growth. But you need to have extremely clear ideas as to the fact that said people must only desire the very best for us just like we do for them, as long as both parts do it objectively.

All through our life we make many friends but only the chosen few remain. This should not be a source of grief. On the contrary, our personality and what we decide we require from others develop as we go along. This causes everything to be ever-changing and we mature and choose who and what makes us and the others happy. That is why friendship is, in the long run, truer as the years go on and people get older.

As far as love between man and woman, it goes beyond friendship, since the chosen person, apart from being an extension of our family, can become a part of it and one of the most important people in our lives.

Contrary to friendship, here physical attraction walks in. It is not indispensable at first sight, since personality is what really cuts it when it comes to feeling love.