What is love?

What is passion?

When I hear love songs, songs of heart break, songs where people miss each other, I try to feel the emotion. I try to imagine the song for someone, but I just cant.

I wonder why is that?

Have I never become that close to someone to feel those emotions? I can sympathize with the actor or the emotion but I can never empathize, no matter how hard I try. Why is that? Have I never felt true love? What is true love?

Is it what I have with my husband? The feeling of peaceful co-existence? Or Is it something filled with an all-consuming passion?

If so, if you are so consumed with an all consuming passion for a person, how can you be passionate about something else, like a sport or painting or writing or singing or your work? Are you supposed to be passionate about something or someone?

Is passion something that consumes you completely, no matter where you are, with whom you are? If so, how can you be passionate about a person and yet about something else that you like?

Is a life partner someone you are passionate about? Or is it someone who encourages you to find your passion? Or is it someone who lets you co-exist, someone who lets you be yourself, who encourages you to be yourself and find something you are passionate about and follow it till you excel?

Is it someone who gives you a sense of fulfillment or someone who lets you discover what makes you get the feeling of fulfillment and encourages you to follow what fulfills you?

Is it supposed to be filled with feeling for someone else’s wellbeing over own self’s? Is it supposed to be a feeling of utter selflessness? Or is it a feeling where your partner lets you be selfish enough that so that you are happy with whatever you are doing?

Is it finding happiness within each other or letting each other be free enough to find their own happiness in whatever they do?

Is it co-dependence or letting each other be independent?