What is Love?
If someone asked you what your definition of love is, what would you tell them?
What kind of examples would you give them?
We could sit here for hours and try to dissect what love is, but if we’re all honest, we all have our own interpretation of love. We all see love in different ways.
Today however, I want to talk about loving your neighbor as yourself. Something that we as humans often fail at so much, myself included.
In order to do this, I think we have to first look at ourselves. When I say love yourself, I’m not talking about being in love with yourself, and being cocky, I’m talking about actually loving what makes you you. Loving your personality, loving the way your face looks in a mirror, not comparing yourself to others. It’s so easy in this world to look at social media, to look at television, to listen to music, and let that define how we see ourselves. And so we begin to view ourselves through the lens of other people. What if I told you, that being you is the best you you can be? Would you believe me? Would you believe me if I told you that no one else’s opinions or thoughts matter? That they will not make you you, but they will make you into someone else? Someone else’s puppet? You can’t let anyone pull your strings. You were created uniquely and with a purpose. You were created to do what no one else on this earth can do, you just have to realize that and embrace it. Once you can love yourself, you realize how free you really are. And you’ll be able to help other people realize their potential and help show them how to love themselves. So much of this world hates who they are. Which is why we see people living double lives. Which is why we see people who have the potential to be great held down by their doubt in themselves, because the world has told them they can’t do it. What if, what if, what if, you were the person to help that person realize their potential? You can’t do that if you don’t love yourself. If you don’t love yourself and you try to empower someone else, you’re going to feel weak, empty and depleted, because you’re not taking care of number one, which is your soul, your heart. You matter. Your life, it matters. And in order to love others, you need to realize that your life is worth being loved. Not just by yourself, but by others as well.
The reason I’m talking about this is because I believe without a shadow of a doubt in my mind that if we all loved each other more, there would be less war, less murder, less stealing, less people in prison, less racism, less bullies. And this world would be so much more at peace, if we actually loved ourselves for who we were designed to be, not who the world wants us to be. And through that, we could love the world the way they were designed to be as well. All we need is love.
