There was an article in the Courier Mail called “Believe in the power of love” (Wed, June 18 p43). The article endeavoured to make a distinction between lust and love. In summary the article argued that lust was selfish while love was much more self giving, lust tends to be shallow and short lived while love had a depth and constancy. The article went on to describe what it feels like to be in love and at this point I became disappointed.