Love, Ludus Or Pragma

I woke up on saturday morning burden on the subject of Love. My thinking faculty begins to race thus:
What is Love?
Why is Love dramatised everywhere even in action movies?
Is Love one of the reciepe for success?
Intellectual decode:
God is love.
Love is life's greatest blessing.
Love is the essence of human existence.
Love is a survival tool – a mechanism we have evolved to promote long-term relationships.

To the physicist: 'Love is chemistry'

Biologically: 'Love is a powerful neurological condition like hunger or thirst, only more permanent.'

To the Psychotherapist: 'Love has many guises'

Unlike us, the ancients did not lump all the various emotions that we label "love" under the one word. They had several variations, including:
Philia which they saw as a deep but usually non-sexual intimacy between close friends and family members or as a deep bond forged by soldiers as they fought alongside each other in battle.
Ludus describes a more playful affection found in fooling around or flirting.
Pragma is the mature love that develops over a long period of time between long-term couples and involves actively practising goodwill, commitment, compromise and understanding.
Agape is a more generalised love, it's not about exclusivity but about love for all of humanity.
Philautia is self love, which isn't as selfish as it sounds.
Eros is about sexual passion and desire. Unless it morphs into philia and/or pragma, eros will burn itself out.

The philosopher: 'Love is a passionate commitment'

The romantic novelist: 'Love drives all great stories'

The nun: 'Love is free yet binds us'
Love is more easily experienced than defined.

The love Benson Adima seek to debate here is not just romantic love, but love in everything.
Love's the one thing that can never hurt anyone, although it may cost dearly. The paradox of love is that it is supremely free yet attaches us with bonds stronger than death. It cannot be bought or sold; there is nothing it cannot face; love is life's greatest blessing.
"For God so loved the world .........." Jn 3:16 "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends." Jn 15:13 ".........you shall love other humans as yourself......" Lev 19:18.
"Let no man who think of undergoing an enterprise without first fall in love with it expect no success." - Benson Adima.