Love is the supreme meaning of our life. For if we want to give love a place in our lives, then we must come to an understanding of how love truly operates. Love is a very enjoyable emotion, but just one of the many human emotions that one can experience. To be sure, love is indeed a feeling. But it's much more than that.
Love is a choice.
It's an act of will, it's a commitment, it's a decision of the heart and mind to treat someone with caring, respect, compassion, and understanding-to name just a few of the many qualities of love. Love is a choice that we make every day. Love is a choice that a parent makes every day for their child -whether to care for them, whether to feed them, whether to support them, whether to listen to them, whether to affirm their very being. Love is a choice that two people make when they decide that they want their relationship to be kiddushin-holy before God and the community. So a couple enters the chuppah and recites vows of commitment to each other, promising to share their lives and their love.