Love without return on investment
July 31st, 2011Love’s not a boomerang we throw out, and get back. Too many people give love, hoping to get some sort of return on investment. Like “Karma.” Or, “…in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
How about giving love, simply because there is such a dearth of it in this world. How about because, no matter your lot, you can improve someone else’s.
We are most human when we love for love’s sake. We should jump at the opportunity to create love, sharing the value we have in ourselves with others, hoping it will help them somehow, some way, on their journey.
And sure, you may get nothing back. You may get scorn. It’s a risk. I may get laughed at for writing this, and every other self-revealing thing I put in this blog.
But maybe someone will feel compelled to do what I’m trying to here — to break out of a mindset of narcissistic self-involvement to realize that there are people we can touch… and should.
And not just those close to us. Those that don’t even know us. People we may never even see again.
Because the value of a life is the highest value we have on earth, in the natural world.
But if you can’t bring yourself to try to love more people, how about a simple commitment to try to avoid hurting them? Maybe some of us need to start there.