The world understands love as dating and owning each other, having a person. Getting married to another person and all that jazz. Love in this way is someone that I will be jealous over. Someone that I will use for something, to get something out of them. To the world love is the person who carries my burdens, has to deal with my demons, my aggression, my flaws. Love also is not the contrary of all these things for if it were then it would not be love.
In the world a friend again is the person that you use/ abuse. When you need someone to burden and then fight with. Tell them your petty fights at work and mischievous things you find yourself entangled in.
What then is love? Love cannot be fenced into a description, precisely the word love is limited, it’s only a word and can be abused and is used and abused. Everyone uses that word even when they are drunk and when they make absolutely no sense. They use that word when they have abused their friends and want forgiveness. The word has absolutely no meaning in the world. Love is not a thing that we can define. I cannot love when I am not free, when I am miserable and struggling, when all I want is to be rich and powerful.
You will never know love for it is not to be known or had. It’s not your friend. It is not a currency, it is not to be accumulated as you accumulate money in a bank account. But you will love and do love, sure you do. You love only, not somebody or something but you love surely. To love a specific somebody or a specific family or a specific race or community is to be altogether limited. But to love purely which can happen when you are free without misery and ambition and all the things of the world.
Love is not to be pursued, it is not an end goal such as a high school certificate or a degree. It is not illusive either. It is not to be understood, intellectualised as you maybe trying to do.
It is where there is no effort, no pain. When I am free from me.
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