Friday, December 2, 2022 @ 1:11 AM
When we accept and love people unconditionally, we set them free.
But why do we feel that we have to earn human love? With these ideas, we often end up acting like someone we’re not, putting on a show, faking talents and virtues we don’t have, protecting ourselves behind masks because if they discover who we really are, we’ll run the risk that they will reject us, that they won’t accept us anymore, that they’ll repudiate us, not just in our social circle but also in our own family.
It’s really a challenge to love people for who they are today, at this moment, with their virtues and vices, qualities and defects, with all their areas of opportunity and not just for what we want them to be or what we think they could be.
Love is not what gets disappointed; expectations are
It’s very difficult to love and accept everyone just as they are because — mistakenly — we have expectations of them, just as we have expectations of ourselves.