What is love?

Love.
Everybody talks about it. Everyone dreams about it. But how does it actually feel?
Is it really the warm feeling in every part of your body? Does it really feel like there's a whole colony of butterflies in your stomach when you see this special person? Or is it just an idea we get from books?
I can't say that I know the answer to this. Because I don't know if I've ever been really in love. I love my mum, sister and father, but I think we all agree when I say that that's a different kind of love.
Maybe I am too young to know the feeling of real love from an other human being - that isn't my friends, mum, sister and father. But still I can't help but wonder about this feeling people talk about.
Maybe I did feel it but can't remember it because I don't want to remember it? Or maybe I was just with the wrong persons?
I can't say that my break ups have ever really hurt. I know that my first 'love' really wasn't that. It isn't love when you convince yourself so much, that you love a person, that you end up believing it.

It's so easy, to think about love, to talk about love, to wish for love, but it is not always easy to recognize love, even when we hold it in our hands.

-Jaka. 

But one thing I know is that I don't believe in the kind of love that you find in books like Twilight. I do not believe that you can be with your first love forever. Neither do I believe in love at first sight. I believe in lust at first sight. I think that love starts as lust and then as you get to know a person, it morphs into love.
My mum always say to me: "Please keep in mind that you are still young and need to experience life." My mum was with my father for about 20 years. She was 15 and my father was 18. She wasted her life on him and they did not stay together. Now she's alone and he has a wife. That is why my mum keeps reminding me.
But even as cold and heartless I may seem, I still feel lonely whenever my friends starts talking about how handsome and nice their boyfriends are. It's been a while since I've been in any kind of relationship, and I kind of miss the feeling of knowing that you have someone, who will pity you after a long day with hard work.

What do you guys think? Is love really this butterfly in the stomach feeling? Do you believe in love at first sight? And what is love exactly? Let me know and tell me why if you can.