Thoughts on love and truth

Boundless, unconditional love...
Terms that get thrown around loosely.
Carelessly.
Usually when trying to impress.
Usually for selfish reasons.
Almost always hiding secret, and often indiscreet desires.

I'd like to clumsily attempt to define what I have finally come to understand "true" love to be:
When you would be a particular person's anything.

Clarification:
Anything - Whatever they require or desire you to be, or not to be.

Not their everything, and not because that's what you want more than anything.
Not because that's what would make you happy.
Not because there's a great big hole inside of you that can only be filled by a particular person's special brand of love and attention...
But because that's what they ask of you, and your love simply does not allow for their disappointment.

When you would just as happily be a particular person's nothing, if that's what they would choose.

To just as happily be gone for them, as to be there for them. As a particular person that loves another.

Author's Note

Wrote this while I was being a particular person writing a thing.

Reviews

[CC]

I love that you bring up so many of the "untruths"/cliches of love that float around in popular media and those who haven't lived long enough to have their hearts smashed chasing those things you list.

I adore the last two lines. I'm such a big believer in your happiness coming from yourself. My partner shares and amplifies my happiness, but it neither begins nor ends with them. It's normal to feel sadness or even grief when they leave (especially if it's permenant), but if your only happiness/sole purpose comes from them...oof.

To truly love a person means letting them live their best life, even if it means you don't get to be a part of it.

A tough lesson to learn, but so true!

Thanks for your words!

[Dripping Chocolate Madness]

Exactly, my friend.
Word of advice, though... Don't try to explain this to a room full of arguing teens...
Did NOT work out well.
:)

[CC]

HA. Where would the next generation of poets be if it had worked out well? XD

[Dripping Chocolate Madness]

Hahaha how true

[Ana Papaya]

The last line is kind of sad but I suppose that's part of it too.
What a nice thought. Does this exist I wonder? Or is it reserved for happily ever afters found in disney movies.

[Dripping Chocolate Madness]

Oh it's a thing. It's all over the place, we just have to be receptive to it.
I love my kids that way.
And Punky Brewster, and food.

I'm sad no one's caught the Idiocracy reference though lol. Without it, it makes the piece far too serious.

[Ana Papaya]

Yeah, my kids for sure. I love them that way.
You mean from the movie Idiocracy? It's been a long time since I've seen it and I've never been good at memorizing movie lines.

[Dripping Chocolate Madness]

It's ok, you don't need to memorize that one.
We're pretty much living it, now.

[Ana Papaya]

Well if I'm dumb, you're dumber.

[Dripping Chocolate Madness]

:)
I'm the absolute worst. I know.
I wear it well though
:)

[Lacey Sue]

This spoke to me in some way shape or form. I read it and it blew me away how amazing it was

[Dripping Chocolate Madness]

Aww thx :)
Honestly just some thoughts I put down quick.
With a dash of Idiocracy, for good measure.

[Lacey Sue]

Love is very pure

[Meggu]

So you are the particular person? I wonder about unconditional...does it mean you can do anything?

[Dripping Chocolate Madness]

Nah, it was just some thoughts I had after listening to a few young'uns talk about "love" and being disgusted by how selfish they sounded. They'll learn someday, though. They're good kids at heart.

But yes. Yes, I can do anything. Except dancing and calculus. And un-break a bearnaise, without a slurry. But come on, let's be realistic here.

[Meggu]

I can fix broken bearnaise.