Love should come simply.
Why aren't there more open hearted people in life? Not just good people but people who can love strangers.
I just finished watching Into the Wild. (It's a great movie and represented the book very well) There are a lot of messages and things in that story that resonate in me. One bit that moved me a lot was the old man at Salvation Mountain who believed in love so whole heartedly. He had no questions about it.
It seems that love has to be earned for the majority of people. Not many people question that it is that way though so it's not as if they are being intentionally selective with it. That's just how people are raised. It's what they know. It makes sense conventionally speaking that you would need to know a person before you loved them, that a reason was needed, or that it was earned in some way. I don't believe it has to be that way though.
In reality we're all very simple. We all just want to be happy and to be loved. Our experiences cause us to interact and go through life in different ways though and sometimes those different ways can be natural to one person but foreign and scary to another. As a result we create these cautious boundaries, protective layers, judgements, assumptions, and fears of one another. All of those things prevent us from loving one another without reason.
I want to love without reason. It's hard though. I know it's possible but it's so easy to become distracted and wrapped up in my little life.
I just finished watching Into the Wild. (It's a great movie and represented the book very well) There are a lot of messages and things in that story that resonate in me. One bit that moved me a lot was the old man at Salvation Mountain who believed in love so whole heartedly. He had no questions about it.
It seems that love has to be earned for the majority of people. Not many people question that it is that way though so it's not as if they are being intentionally selective with it. That's just how people are raised. It's what they know. It makes sense conventionally speaking that you would need to know a person before you loved them, that a reason was needed, or that it was earned in some way. I don't believe it has to be that way though.
In reality we're all very simple. We all just want to be happy and to be loved. Our experiences cause us to interact and go through life in different ways though and sometimes those different ways can be natural to one person but foreign and scary to another. As a result we create these cautious boundaries, protective layers, judgements, assumptions, and fears of one another. All of those things prevent us from loving one another without reason.
I want to love without reason. It's hard though. I know it's possible but it's so easy to become distracted and wrapped up in my little life.