What is Love?

Depending on the type, love may be blind. In the Greek there are more than ten words for love. When considering the statement, “I love ice cream,” one can be sure that love is not blind, ice cream does not distract a person from the important aspects of life. Phileo, or Brotherly love in not a type of love in which one becomes blinded. Agape love is not blind either. Instead it is a love spiritual in nature that is fulfilling without being blind. Eros may be a blinding type of love, especially in the beginning. It is more of a romantic love, and often one who has found that special someone can be blind. They go to the extreme of caring for nothing but that person. This does not happen in all cases, Eros love can be rational and reasonable. The type of love most likely to be blind is obsessive love, Mania in the Greek, in which one is infatuated with another.  It is as if the obsessed has blinders on and their thoughts and actions are all about their infatuation. So really, it depends on the type on love whether or not love is blind.