Don't show love, do it

For many of us, love is a noun. Love is something that we feel and show towards our family and significant others. And that is where we are all wrong. Love is not something you can give, it is something you can do. To love is to be patient. To love is to go out of your way to better someone else. To love is to sacrifice because you want to not because you have to. And true love is doing it all for a stranger. Through out history we have seen signs of true love. However we were unable to see it as an act of love due to the veil we have created. Society is blind. Princess Diana loved the world, so she walked across a mine field. Jane Goodall loved chimpanzees and other wild animals, so she made it her mission to protect them and educate the world. Gandhiji loved his people, so he fought to free them. To love is not to say "I love you" or to feel butterflies in your tummy. To love is to do. And it is our responsibility to love the world around us. And that includes those we might not get along with. The best way to create peace is to love. Extending a helping hand when we know it wont benefit our country. By giving advice and guidance versus taking over and forcing our ways, is showing love. There are so many things that can be done to better this world around us if we could just learn that love is a verb. not a noun. Don't show love, do it.