Adin Steinsaltz. Simple words (№ 150711)

Love is feelings of attraction to the object, to the beloved. But this attraction is not unambiguous, clearly defined emotion. Due to the large number of personal characteristics, differences in the objects of love and the ambiguity of the term there are many types of relationships, which people call love.
In this respect there is a Jewish folk proverb, which shows how vague the meaning of "love", and shows what problems often arise in the use of phrases like "I love you". One day the fisherman caught a huge pike. Taking the fish out of the water and seeing that she was very large, he exclaimed: "Well, I'll take her pan - he loves pike!" Poor fish thought to himself, "I still Have hope." A fisherman brought a fish in a stately home, and the soldier asked him, "What have you got there?" "Pike," he replied. "Well, - said Gayduk, pan loves them." Fish thought that things are not so bad. The fisherman went into the house, and although the fish is barely breathing, she did not abandon hope: it pan loves pike. Brought it into the kitchen and all the cooks were talking about how strong the love of pan to the pike. When the fish came on the table, he entered the pan and began to give instructions: "Cut off the tail, head and have her way". On its last legs fish in despair, exclaimed: "Why did you lie? You do not like fish, you love yourself!"
Poor fish has the problem of linguistic nature: it confused the two different meanings of one word. Hence the question: are these values really so different from each other? And do people not make the same mistake when they think and say about love? Is the "love fish" and is Love with a capital letter. That's clearly not the same. Not only do they have different emotional strength charge - on their own it's different types of emotions.