love without expectations.
irony of it all: its easier to love strangers this way,than to be without expectations for those you hold dear.
human nature; desires, jealousy, greed. which equates to:
human = selfish.
"love is vulnerable", "afraid to love". i guess all these would just be masks of deeply-rooted selfishness, because
"love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
-corinthians 13:7
i guess deep within, it issint about the other person's gains or emotions or needs that spur us to love or give. perhaps its our own need to feel the emotion of love itself that spurs us to love. when one aspires to bring smiles to others, issit really so that the other person would be happy? or issit more for the sense of fulfilment and happiness to be able to accomplish something beyond our comfort zone?
then again, to be able to love others, one must first feel loved, as love erodes self-centredness.
love is like a window. once you open it, the wind and leaves, sunshine and flowers find their way in. once the window of love has been opened, one finds himself face to face with all these that he has once closed his heart to. should one then decide to close it again to protect oneself from an oncoming downpour? or would it bring more bliss to bask in the scents of fresh moist winds, to let in the rain, experience this part of nature, and wait for an inevitable dissipation of it all?
sighlife.
