Love can't be defined

Love can't be defined. It's different for everyone. For some it's unconditional, others may put conditions on whether or not it's given or taken. Honestly though, whether we want to give it or not, whether we want to receive it or not, love is everywhere in everything. It's a universal seed responsible for all life, a master emotion that supercedes all others, the solution to every problem, the answer to every question. It's up to individual responsibility if we want to see it, feel it, use it or not. For that very reason we can't logically pin it to only one certain thing. Hell sometimes it's hard enough to even explain it or understand it, much less define it.

Love is more than being happy, laughing, enjoying someone's presence in your life or everything being perfect. Sometimes love is despising the person you're with but willing to lower your expectations for a minute, raise your level of acceptance and support them through the process of changing the behaviors that made you despise them to begin with. 

Sometimes love is being willing to look at your own shortcomings and willing to make changes in yourself. Love isn't always about just giving and receiving, sometimes it's about sacrificing and humbly learning to accept help. 

Love is not only the catalyst responsible for creating new relationships, it can also be the strength to end a relationship. Even if you do separate yourself from a personal relationship, that doesn't necessarily mean you stopped or even have to stop loving them. Love means you can still be there for that person if they need help, a shoulder to cry on or just someone to vent to. Love can also be loving yourself enough to leave that relationship all together if it's the cause of chaos in your life. In fact, when we come to those crossroads and find ourselves facing that decision of whether or not to walk away, heartbroken and full of self doubt, if we take a moment to dig around in the muck of what's left and find that little ember of love that's still there and it always is, love can never be entirely put out, but if we find it, focus on it, put it in our hearts to replace that which has been missing, use it for strength to keep moving forward, life from that point will be less painful, shorten the grieving process, put us and keep us on a shorter, easier path to finding our love, that love meant for us we can't live without.

We rarely consider that loving principles such as humility, compassion and forgiveness are just as much for our enemies, if not more for them, as they are for those we like and accept. We don't have to be infatuated with a person, related to or involved with anyone in any way in order to be kind or to help them. We should be kind and willing to help anyone, in everything we do. That's love.

If we don't soon get a grasp on some of these concepts and principles that give us opportunities to express our love - things like the golden rule (do unto others as you would have them do unto you), love thy neighbor, volunteering our time, be of service to others, believe all life matters,  remain humble and especially learn to love unconditionally, in other words, something completely opposite of the shit that society is doing now, our future as an evolving species isn't looking too good. What we've been doing, the way we treat others and for that matter, how we treat ourselves, is not working. It never will. 

We have been conditioned to put conditions on just about everything we do, especially in the way we interact with and treat others. Conditions on how we see ourselves. We lack an identity and are lost because we are subjected to subliminal ads that tell us we aren't tall enough, fast enough, pretty enough, smart enough or anything enough without something we can purchase for the special discounted price of $??.⁹⁵ and if we call now we can get two, yes a second one for just the cost of shipping. That will surely fix us and all our problems we're told.

 We have divided ourselves along every line imaginable. Separating ourselves into groups consisting of those who share our passion on a particular topic. This will always automatically create an opposing group because everyone is not going to share our vision or stance on a topic. Sometimes I seriously believe the only reason some of these groups are even started or remain in existence is 

a) so these groups will expose those that don't share your beliefs

b) so that those who don't share your beliefs can now be harassed.

C) because it would create an entity that can be very profitable for some people.

America right now is severely divided racially, politically, sexually, religiously, we're even making shit up to divide us even further. We are right on that edge of global suicide. We're killing ourselves while AI (artificial intelligence) is evolving past us with lightning speed, WITH OR WITHOUT US. 

Our focus right now should be on learning how to get past our differences instead of fighting or running from one another.

LWH2021©