Love is the most powerful feeling in the universe irrespective of the context. Be it mother love or the intimacy between the spouses. But our new generation has place the word love on a different position, whenever we hear love, we form a romantic picture of couples having time with each other or hearts and kisses, but love is not just between couples and there are different types of love explained in Greek other than just romaticising :
1. Agápe (ἀγάπη)
That has a very spiritual as well as selfless meaning. When a person loves his/her child, when a person gives charity or when we speak about God's love toward its creations. It all can be said to fall under Agape. When we will someone's good without any expectations or return and help or reach out knowing we won't be getting anything back that is called Agape. It can be found in various activties of our daily life; we give food to the road side sleeper, or we help the old man cross the road, on our will, this all account for Agape.
2. Éros (ἔρως)
This is the kind of love we all are familiar with, the love with sexual desire and pleasure, although initially Eros is felt for a person later it moves on to the inner beauty of them. The "Love at first sight" is a great example of eros, new relationship, new marriage are all form of eros, where the most important factor is the intimacy. Eros has presence all over the ancient text from Greeks, Christians to European literature. This is love's effects and passion is often described as the "Love arrows" or "Love darts" because this causes a surge of feelings, and due to so much experience of a single kind of feeling leaves our inner feeling mechanism overwhelmed and that overwhelming feels like an arrow through your heart.
3. Philia (φιλία)
The most simplest translation of Philia would be "Friendship" but its way beyond that, when people of same age or equals are with each other, enjoying and doing thing together is called Philia. The perfect example would be the group of college or school students, people in a family, coworkers at a job. The people who have same interest or hobbies or they enjoy themselves then the bond between them or the love between them is Philia
4. Storge (στοργή)
Storge refers to natural or instinctual love, that is, you posses the love since your birth or you have natural instincts for the love. Storge is the "exceptional" love between friends, pets, your favorite football team and your companions. It is also found in married couples who are long after their marriage they form bond beyond just bodies. These people care for each other and look for each other's interest, lies and dislikes.
Congo!!! you made it till the end.
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