I'm reading "The Four Loves" by CS Lewis and he talks about the different forms love takes, and in my mind each one has been a completely different form and identify for love, but I'm learning that love is love. Your love for a person can change from affection, to eros, to friendship and it's not becoming something new each time: it's the exact same love. It hit me recently that I don't need to completely abandon my love for someone as it changes so that I can begin to love them in a new way: it's okay for me to continue to love, with the same love. Because I battled with the knowledge that real love is unconditional, but I felt like I need to stop loving to love a different way: that's not true. Love is love, and it's unconditional no matter what, and the way you express it may be different depending on the person or thing, but never do you need to make it stop so that it can morph into something new. That's a relief.
1/28/11
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