Thursday, July 03, 2008

Love as you know it

Do you love your mother ? And your friends ? What about your car ? What about your pet ? And what about your lover ?

Do you love them all the same way ?

Of course not. Because it's not about the same kind of love. Is any kind of love better than another ? Or is love just a feeling, without moral attached to it ? But if love is the only thing that really counts, then how could it be without moral ? If it is the thing that can create so much happiness and so much pain, how can it not be moral ?

Love is not a feeling, it's an ability. It involves choice and practice, it's the only way to explain how we can love so differently.

Do you like hating people ? Don't you get tired of hating ? Of being angry, and bothered ?

What if hatred was failing to love ?