In this day and age where we seemingly must “crush” everything in sight in order to prove ourselves to a world that seemingly watches our every move, is there a place for love anymore?
True love. What is it? Why does it matter?
True love matters. It is a feeling, a glimpse, a window into something better inside ourselves.
Is it better? Well, that is arbitrary, but when many people love well, it not only makes those around us feel better. It actually makes us feel better, too, right? The difficult thing today, however, is that acts of love and kindness are often not able to be caught within the frames of life we stare at on our phones, tablets and computer screens.
True love is often quiet and sometimes is counter-intuitively experienced as pain. True love is not easy.
Is anything really easy, however? Can we click a button and really get that thing we desire, or need, or want? True love starts inside the mind with an idea. We can either fan its flame with breathe or extinguish it with the hardness of 21st century thinking.
In a world of Big Data, true love is still not something that can be measured.
Just because something is not measured, though, does not mean it does not exist. Like a graviton, true love has never been captured, but evidence for its existence lies all around us?
Where do we find this evidence of true love? Close the door and look inside yourself.