Love covers

  I just read Proverbs 10:12 which says; "Hatrid stirs up conflict, but love covers all wrongs." Reading that caused me to start thinking about love covering over something. What does it look like for love to cover something? When I first read that it seemed like it was referring to a cover up, so it would be like not even dealing with the wrong, but just covering it up.
  As I thought about it further I came to the conclusion that covering over a wrong doesn't mean not dealing with it, but it means not holding onto it. It ties in with the "love chapter" in 1 Cor. 13 which says that love keeps no record of wrongs. So when someone wrongs you the response should be to not hold it over their head and hang out to it, but to deal with it and let it go.
  I know this is really basic stuff, but I think it's worth mentioning because even the most basic stuff can be forgotten in a moment of anger and frustration at a person for how they've wronged you. I know that I constantly forget the basic stuff and so easily lapse into thinking only of myself and how angry I am at whoever wronged me, instead of thinking about how I can respond in love. Thinking about love covering brings me to dwell on love in general. 
  I think that I am so far from really grasping what love is and how to give and receive love. I read verses like the one in Proverbs and I realize just how unloving I can be at times. I get so consumed in myself and what I want and think I need, and don't often stop to think of the other person and what their needs are and how I can meet them. 
  I get so swept into the cultures view of love, which is that it is a feeling and that it's all about the romance and being swept away. That's not love at all! True love is not giving up on someone when you want to walk away, it's being patient when they are getting on your nerves, it's giving to them when you don't feel like giving to anyone, it's meeting their needs when you really just want someone to meet yours, love is a sacrifice and a choice.
  The cool thing is that the more you choose to love someone is when the feelings often start to come with it! The more you love someone the more your love for them grows and before you know it what used to be frustration is now deep love for that person. Of course there are those people who are always hard to love and it's always a battle, but making the choice to love and prayer go a long way in those situations.
  I still have so much to learn about love, but these are just some of my thoughts on it. I'm so glad that God made the choice to love us humans even though we really don't deserve it at all! Thinking about that makes me think, how can I choose not to love someone when God chose to love me? I've been giving a great gift how can I not share it?