Just wanted to share a realization I've had recently about love.

zzbenz · 7 months

Lately I've been wondering about this, "Everyone deserves to be loved" business.
What if you're an abusive, manipulative person? What if you emotionally or physically (or both) abuse people in your life? Do you deserve love? What if you have no intention of changing your manipulative, controlling and abusive ways. Do you deserve to be loved?

atheistlibrarian · 7 months

I wonder if love is something like one of those round-a-bouts. They go in a circle and have multiple exits but no one really knows how to use them. When you go into one you have to worry about getting hit by the guy in the SUV that is on his cell phone. It's really just one big tight turn and you wonder why they couldn't just put in a damn stop light.

TrollyG-Yo · 7 months

I remember a chapter about this in "Chicken Poop for the Soul."

It was a satirical essay, much like yours, that then developed into a stalker. "Most people would stop loving after being arrested, but how weak-hearted! The restraining order never made me stop loving you!"

Yadda yadda

madsonm · 7 months

Very true...

We love in our own way, through actions that are individually defined. It is an emotion you feel...so why do people think it must be defined by another? Just because your feelings are unwanted or misunderstood doesn't change what they are.

atheistlibrarian · 7 months

I wonder if love is something one of those round-a-bouts. They go in the circle and have multiple exits but no one really knows how to use them. When you go into one you have to worry about getting hit by the guy in the SUV that is on his cell phone. It's really just one big tight turn and you wonder why they couldn't just put in a damn stop light.

periphery72271 · 7 months

Everyone deserves the opportunity to be loved.

Whether they take advantage of that or not is another thing. If they squander that opportunity by basically being unlovable, that's their fault.

And a person who continues to give the gift of love to someone who cannot or will not reciprocate in any way is a fool or a masochist.

If you wish to waste your love in that manner, have at it. I'm not that guy.

Saying that there is no difference between loving someone and being in love with someone only makes me wonder if you may not have done enough of either to tell. I know for sure that I can.

rikxik · 7 months

When you have something amazing happen to you, you want to say "Everyone deserves to experience this amazing thing!!". Irrespective of whether that "something" is love or not. Seems you are in love.

notcaptainkirk · 7 months

Non expert believes self to be expert.

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