βIβm so in love with you. Make love your goal.β ~ the Power of Love . I read recently some words by a well-known instagram poet to the effect that unreciprocated love is worthless because love is all about flow back and forth. I couldnβt disagree more. Love is not confined to such societal templates. Love doesnβt follow traffic laws. Love is an endless reservoir, an eternal spring. It loves when no love comes back. . I write from the perspective of someone who has experienced an incapability to receive love from a very young age. The first person I remember saying the words βI love youβ to me was a boy who lived on my street when I was very young. He was a few years older than me and his name was Jonathan. His father was a policeman and he had dark hair. These are the things I remember. He walked with me into the field we all used to play in and picked me a poppy, kissed me on the cheek and said βI love you.β I shut right down. I remember feeling wrong about the whole thing. It could have been adorable, and I just couldnβt receive it. That was probably my first date. Iβve managed to mostly avoid them since then. How can a child so young be so incapable of receiving the purest love while surrounded by nature? . I have met a couple of people recently who have turned my heart over. None of them available. And yet the kindness and consideration they have shown me in small moments has taken me by surprise. It took me back to this memory and it is as though everyday romance has entered my life in a new way. . What if we can experience love, no matter the flow, coming or going, building up or passing away. Just allow it to flow through us expecting nothing back. Feel it spiralling inside us and whatever impulses arise, let them go. What if love were the goal? The experience of love, not the object. . These are the reflections I am having. The poet writes such words and feels they have produced something clever. Then love comes in and makes fools of us all. π· the incredible @izzyacetophoto β€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈ #shashaspiritledlife #loveis #creativesofig #izzyaceto #creativeattraction #openyourheart #yogaislife #yogalovers #loveyourself #loveisallaround #followyourheart https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz0-NKPH-B3/?igshid=ey4wphszh1er
