Love Unconditionally

Love Unconditionally 

Is that a Myth? Does that even exist? What is it to feel like being loved unconditionally? What does it feel when you love someone unconditionally? Do you even realize it? Do you want your beloved to realize the same? What is it?

As I walked the same beaten path for my morning run this morning, all these thoughts floated in my mind. It is confusing to think about unconditional love because ‘love’ by itself is somehow socially acceptable to be a bit selfish, a bit needy and a bit possessive. It is usually described that for love to be true, it must be reciprocated. ‘One-sided love’ is a somewhat unacceptable standard of love and considered a sort of failed desperate need of being desirable. I feel we confuse ‘love’ with ‘desire’ a lot of times. Not that ‘desires’ do carry a tinge a ‘love’ and sometimes those ‘fulfilled desires’ provide a sense of contentment that feels a lot like the swelling in the heart when you feel ‘loved’, but is that it? Or is it more? This is a never-ending debate and we all sort of define them and feel them in our own individual ways. Matters of heart, mind, and love are never the easy ones but intriguing nonetheless.  

As I walk in the changing seasons, the colorful leaves fall all over me. The crunch of dried leaves under my feet just reminds of their vulnerability and surrender to the cycle of nature. They unconditional unquestioned dedication for being who they are. Their role in the cycle of nature, falling from tree graciously and making room for new as and when the spring approaches after a harsh winter. Harsh winters are necessary for spring. The bone-chilling cold and freeze is demanded by nature to bloom when spring arrives in full glory to show humankind what is it like to be admired, to be the beautiful being who they are. Every branch adorned with its own kind of leaves, flowers or thorns. Standing tall, standing truthful and authentic to themselves, until fall arrives and the cycle continues.

The unconditional love to be self and desire from within to be is the purest kind of love if we can feel.

May that unconditional love and freedom be with you, today and every day.

Amen.