Love is a state of being obsessively interested in a certain person or object because the person or object has something that the person does not posses. Love can target anything because the object or person viewed is seen by the eye of the beholder. It is like a ugly man being married to a beautiful woman without any outside influence. The woman could love how the mans mind works or she thinks that he is good in bed. Love is anything we imagine it to be, but mainly my idea is that of a person is obsessively interested with a person or object then it is love. A good example was the man and woman, but love can also be between a homicidal maniac and his victims. The homicidal maniac could target certain types of people, like people with blonde hair. He loves the hair to a point that if he sees it he would fly into a rage that he does not possess it; he needs to have the thing he loves. Now the maniac is not the perfect example as most people would just suffice to be near the object or person he/she loves. Another idea is that a person does not love another person but what the he/she loves what the object of love possess that gives the person who is loving status, like a brilliant mind or blonde hair. So when a person says to someone else that they love him/her, he/she really means that he loves how smart he is and how glad he/she is near her so the person himself/herself can seem smart too. And so when a person says to himself how much he loves his car, he is really saying how much he loves being to able to drive his car around to get noticed, or that the car is so fast (maybe he is a fat person and cannot move fast) that allows him/her to travel faster. The way love is so important to society is that because we strive to possess what we do not have, and somet ...