The meaning of love

I love like the movie Frozen that Disney made. Olaf is one of my favorite characters. 

He is a cute snowman that Elsa and Anna made when they were little, and he comes to life later on when they are older. His greatest wish is to be in summer and he likes warm hugs, "Hi I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs!" During the course of the movie he teaches Anna what love really is. He says, "Love is putting someone else's needs before yours." This is such a true statement. In today's society love is portrayed as an emotion and the word is thrown around more often then even the word "like". 

Last summer my friend Kathleen and I did an experiment to see which one of us said "like" unnecessarily, more often. at first it was hard to catch ourselves and the other person but by the second day we did a pretty good job of telling the other person when they said "like". What we found out was that we both said "like" all of the time and when we were thinking about it it was hard for us to come up with a word to replace it or to even stop ourselves from saying "like".  

My point is that between the two of us we miss-used the word "like" like all of the time, and we still sometimes do. The thing is "love" is miss-used EVEN more often. we often say that we "love" a movie or "love" an object. When the truth is that you can ONLY love people! We also miss-use it when we say that we are so "in love" with a boyfriend or girlfriend. Are you really "in love" or do you just really like them? And if you are "in love" then that means that you are willing to do ANYTHING for that person, even die for them. 

*Spoiler*


At the end of the movie when Elsa is about to be killed by Hans, and Anna is running towards Kristoff (half frozen) for an act of true love (that will thaw her and save her life), Anna, hearing her sister crying, turns away from Kristoff and runs to protect her sister from harm, in turn she ends to solid ice. She was willing to risk her life to protect her sister. Because of her act of true love towards her sister Anna's frozen heart is thawed and she returns to normal. 

In the past if Disney has taught us anything at all from their princess movies is that you will "fall in love" and live happily ever after. But I like this Disney Princess movie because it actually tells you the true meaning of love. 

And just in case you missed it, when you love someone you are willing to do anything for them, including die for them.