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Love as I see it

Prompt:" If you love something, it will work. That's the only real rule." Bunny Williams
Do you agree with this? Write what you want about this.

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True and pure love means perfection, but since no human being can be perfect, true and pure love may not be possible for imperfect people, at all. I am, however, going to answer this prompt with the hope of such a love as being remotely possible.

The trouble with love is that people confuse it with attachment, as they do in most romance novels.

Attachment isn’t love. Loyalty isn’t love. Sex isn’t love.

The presence of attachment, loyalty, and sex means a good relationship, but love is something else.

Love in itself is caring, compassionate, and emphatic. It sees no otherness because it knows of the interconnectedness of all creation; yet, it still respects the integrity and authority of each being.

Love is inherently free. It can’t be traded, cajoled, bought, or sold, as it is not a marketable substance or commodity, for it exists in mystery for most, and it is vulnerable since it is given freely, and it is only given. It can't be taken. Love just is. It exists within itself, and its action is one-way, only.

Love is an action, a performance, or a feeling that is freely given without even thinking of a return. If you think of a return, you might say it “worked,” but love doesn’t “work” in anyone’s favor as it does not demand a return. It just doesn’t have that concept because it doesn’t need to.